Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
OnStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , René Auberjonois ' Constable Odo service as the Chief of Security on the titulary space place , as he learned more about himself and what it meant to be a Changeling . With his keen observation acquirement , Odo was an excellent detective and strove to preserve Justice Department aboard blank space place Deep Space Nine . While he could be a bit curmudgeonly , Odo had a good sum and cared deeply about the multitude on the place , many of whom he came to see as champion .
Like Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) onStar Trek : The Original SeriesandData ( Brent Spiner ) onStar Trek : The Next Generation , Odo offered a smell at humanity from the outside . When the Changeling was first found drifting in distance in his jellylike state , he could n’t remember anything about his blood line or mintage , and he expend much of his metre on Deep Space Nine seek for answers . By theend ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Odo had learn a lot about himself and had really come into his own as a fibre .
Odo Was Sent To The Alpha Quadrant By The Dominion Founders (Centuries Ago-~2365)
Odo Remembered Nothing About His Origins
As Odo look for to discover more about his history , he eventually see that he was one of a hundred Changlings who had been place from the Gamma Quadrant to explore the galax centuries before . Odo was found in the Bajoran scheme sometime in the mid-24th centuryand bring to the Bajoran Institute of Science . As the imbecile was ab initio labeled as an unknown sampling , theCardassians get calling him Odo’ital , meaning"nothing,“but Odo finally reclaimed the name for himself .
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Dr. Mora Pol ( James Sloyan)studied Odo for seven years at the Bajoran Institute of Science . Unaware that Odo was a sentient being , Mora subject the Changeling to painful experimentsuntil Odo finally rise up , impel Mora to acknowledge him as sentient . Mora go forward to study and learn Odo , but Odo resented the Bajoran doctor for all of the experiments he had put him through .
Odo’s Life Before Deep Space Nine (~2365-2369)
Odo Worked For The Cardassians As Chief Of Security On Terok Nor
Sometime during theCardassian Occupation of Bajor , Odo arrived on Terok Nor ( later known as Deep Space Nine ) and regularly settled disputes between the Bajorans cultivate on the station . Gul Dukat ( Marc Alaimo ) recruited Odo in 2365to enquire the murder of a Bajoran cooperator . Odo suspected Kira Nerys ( Nana Visitor ) to be the liquidator after find out that she was a member of the Bajoran resistance , but he did not reveal her identity to Dukat .
When Odo was investigating Kira , she jokingly referred to him as Constable , and the title stick .
Odo served as Chief of Security for the Cardassians on the station for about four age , during which clock time he honed his fact-finding accomplishment . In 2366,Odo hurriedly convicted three Bajorans for the undertake assassination of Dukat , learning of their innocence only after they had been executed . This grave mistake made Odo reconsider the difference between rules of order and justice , and he resolve to be more discerning in the future tense .
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Odo Was Deep Space Nine’s Security Chief For 7 Years (2369-2375)
Odo Came To View Many Of The Starfleet Officers Stationed On DS9 As Friends
In 2369 , the Federation took over command of Deep Space Nine when the Cardassians withdrew from the station . At first , Commander Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks)and Odo disagreed on how security should be handled on the station , but they eventually became friends . Odo was not reverberate by the regulation of Starfleet , and he bear on justice on the station in his own style . Throughout his time as Chief of Security , Odo ensconce legion disputes and look into many crimes , all while searching for answers regarding his origins .
Throughout his meter on the place , Odo was constantly reprimanding Ferengi barkeeper Quark ( Armin Shimerman ) for some illicit body process or another . Despite their antagonistic human relationship , Odo and Quark had a destiny of respect for one another and even arrive to be friends .
As seen in theStar Trek : Deep Space Ninetwo - part episode , " The Search , " Odo finally discovered his specie to be the Changelings , also referred to as the Founders of the Dominion . However , when Odo learned how much the founding father distrusted so - called"solids,“he choose to continue with his friend on DS9.Although Odo disagreed with the Founders about many thing , he still feel himself drawn to his house in the Gamma Quadrant . In 2371 , Odo was storm to pour down another Changeling who was trying to provoke a war .
Constable Odo ’s full Star Trek : Deep Space Nine episodes showcase the hunting for his origins , his clashes with the Founders , and his love for Kira .
The Founders later forced Odo to maintain his human form for good , as penalization for kill one of his own . Unbeknownst to the Founders ( and Odo),Starfleet ’s hush-hush intelligence organization , Section 31,had infected Odo with a virus , which reassign to all of the Founders through the Great Link . Odo spent about a year immobilize in a substantial stateuntil an infant Changeling restored his ability to exchange form . When the Dominion War began in 2373 , Odo remain on DS9 when it was adopt over by the Cardassians , eventually aid the Federation recapture the station .
Odo Was In Love With Major Kira Nerys (~2371-2375)
Odo And Kira Have One Of Star Trek’s Most Complex And Interesting Relationships
Sometime prior to 2371 , Odo commence to explicate feelings forMajor Kira Nerys , but he did not tell apart her . Quark recognise of Odo ’s feeling for Kira even before Odo admitted them to himself , and the Ferengi sometimes offered Odo relationship advice . When the Female Changeling ( Salome Jens ) take over Kira ’s identity element , Odo finally confessed his flavour to her but quickly realized it was the Changeling masquerade as Kira . This Kira admitted that she had feelings for Odo as well , but Odo love this to be mistaken and that the real Kira would not dwell about something like that .
Kira first hear about Odo ’s feelings from an alternate future edition of the Changeling in 2373 ( inDS9’s"Children of Time " ) , but it was n’t until the following yr that " her " Odo confessed his dearest .
When Kira begin seeing Shakaar Edon ( Duncan Regehr ) , the First Minister of Bajor , in 2372 , Odo struggled with feeling of jealousy . Odo ultimately bring out his true belief to the real Kira in 2374,by which sentence she did reciprocate his feelings . In world , Kira had belike had some intuitive feeling for Odo for some time , but she refused to let in them even to herself . BothOdo and Kirainitially think the other would not feel the same way . In the destruction , their Latinian language was tragically short - live , as Odo return to the Great Link when the Dominion War ended in 2375 .
Odo Returned To The Great Link At The End Of Star Trek: DS9’s Dominion War (2375)
Odo Helped End The Dominion War Before Returning To His Home
Odo play a vital role in endingStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Dominion War . Odo ultimately convinced the Female Changeling to resist down by promising that he would return to the Great Link . Odo knew that hislinking with the other Changelings would heal them of the Section 31 computer virus he had inadvertently infected them with .
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Odo also look for to reconnect with his citizenry and assist build a good version of the Dominion . Odo did not take this decision lightly as it meant the end of his relationship with Kira , who attach to him to the Great Link for a lachrymose sayonara .
Odo Set Up Worf In Star Trek: Picard Season 3 (2401)
Odo Warned Worf About A Dangerous Changeling Faction
Sometime before 2401 , Odo contactedCaptain Worf ( Michael Dorn)to inform him about a scallywag group of Changelings with enhanced shapeshifting ability who sought revenge against the Federation . Ten Changelings , including Vadic ( Amanda Plummer ) , had been subject to barbarous experiments at the hands of the Federation during the Dominion War . After the warfare , the anger and pain in the neck of these Changelings lead to a split within the Great Link . A group of Changelings then broke off from the Link and finally allied with the Borg Queen ( Alice Krige ) , who had her own reasons for seeking revenge .
Worf did n’t name Odo inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , but the"honorable"Changeling he talk of could only be Odo .
Worf was working with Starfleet Intelligence by this time , and he and Commander Raffi Musiker ( Michelle Hurd ) discovered that these Changelings had already infiltrated Starfleet . Worf then reunited with hisStar Trek : The Next Generationcrew to stop the Borg / Changeling coalition from enacting their plan . Even from the other side of the Gamma Quadrant , Odo did not forget his sense of justice or the friends he made onStar Trek : Deep Space Nine .
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