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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That never made sense. Odo looks like that because of doctor Mora and because he's not good at imitating faces, while the other shape shifters are good enough to pass for existing people. Yet their neutral look is Odo's.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I thought the changeling that shared Odo's look chose it to make Odo feel like he belonged. And her disdain for solids might have made her not want to look too much like them.

The only other changelings I remember from DS9 were,

other changelingsThe other changeling sent into the galaxy alone like Odo who had more detailed hair and features, and the espionage agent Sisko talked to in Paradise Lost who did a convincing imitation of O'Brien.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The neutral look is easiest. Odo uses it because it's the best he can do. The Founders use it because they're lazy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

We never see a Great Link Changeling before Odo meets them at the start of season 3. Perhaps they’re emulating Odo to give the Alpha Quadrant as little info as possible. Lass, another one of the 100 infants the Link sends out as scouts, along with Odo, assumes a different face. More brow ridges, but the same hair.