Re:Odo: Shapeshifting for your data
by skyrw on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:01PM
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Bigger nerd? You for making that joke, me for getting it.
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Re:Odo: Shapeshifting for your data
by GrinningFool on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:21PM
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Statistically it was likely that at least one person in this audience would get it. Therefore I think that OP wins this nerd throwdown.
Full disclosure: I still don't.
Throw us a clue?
Odo is the name of a shapeshifter on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, who doesn't know his origins or homeworld until around season 3. I guess the homeworld isn't revisited as a major plot point until season 6? I don't remember...seasons 6 and 7 were honestly kind of a blur for me.
I think prior to season 6, the Klingons and Romulans tried to destroy the Dominion by taking out Odo's homeworld in a sneak attack. Odo's people turned out to be the rulers of a large empire that sought to conquer solids (non-shapeshifters).
Re:Odo: Shapeshifting for your data
by moosingin3space on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:07PM
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Cardassians, not Klingons.
Re:Odo: Shapeshifting for your data
by cholantesh on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:47PM
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Also when Odo was forced to return to the Link to be judged (end of season 4).
Pretty sure that's a reference to http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Search,_Part_II_%28ep... and http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Link .