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Why the blood tests?

brian577

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If any part of a Changling reverts to it's gelatinous state when it's disconnected from the main body. Why not just a lock of hair? Did they just need to make things more dramatic to during the Joseph/Klingon scenes?
 
Maybe because things like hair and especially clothes could be "real" (i.e. the hair a wig made outof real hair...like many people wear today)....blood would be harder to fake.
 
Maybe because things like hair and especially clothes could be "real" (i.e. the hair a wig made out of real hair...like many people wear today)....blood would be harder to fake.

That is a very good answer. Blood simply standardized the process.
 
Don't forget Lwaxana Troi! She wore more wigs than the entire population (before they were wiped out) of the tribble's fur. ;)

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Why couldn't the changeling carry a small amount of blood and put it near the surface in the place they're removing the blood? :D
 
With all the fights Klingon soldiers get into, Martokling could just make sure he takes the bodies to the morgue/crematorium/wherever and siphons some of their blood. So then he'd have a rotating stock of recent Klingon blood to export when he's about to get a blood screening.
 
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Klingons treat corpses like sluffed off skin (like snakes sheddin'). Ya really thing they have morgues, crematoriums or whatever?

I say he just had a trick dak'tang that had a supply of blood in it. In 'Way of the Warrior', they don't show his palm cut, just the blood comin' down onto the table with his palm down.
 
Why couldn't the changeling carry a small amount of blood and put it near the surface in the place they're removing the blood? :D

Who's to say they didn't? :vulcan: :techman:

Again, it was primarily security theater.

Why couldn't the changeling carry a small amount of blood and put it near the surface in the place they're removing the blood? :D
How else do you think Changling Martok, managed to go undetected?

Exactly! Though Martok probably just punched everyone who asked him to prove he was... himself. XD
 
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