• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    From what I recall, as the years go by, he gets better at it. In that one where they get stranded on that planet which sends them back in time he’s essentially using his “real” face.

    True Changelings can impersonate people flawlessly. IE Martok, Doctor Bashir and Chief O’Brien were done perfectly.

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      2 months ago

      He does. And that’s the problem. It took him decades just to learn the level of shape shifting given to him in the show. If you end up with Odo’s version of shape shifting, it’s going to take a similar another of time to master it. Hell, it took him years to figure out the most basic forms. It took him years just to figure out how to be anything other than a puddle.