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when i say “i wish ds9′s budget/tv cg at the time was better b/c they could have had odo do so much more” i mostly either mean “gratuitous body horror” or “what if odo turned into a tiny car and repeatedly crashed into quark’s ankles” and not like, anything cool or important to the plot
you’re never going to convince me that odo did in fact not on the regular turn into a tiny car and crash into quark’s ankles
this post has been making the rounds again and i gotta say 1. you’re right
2. there was nothing stopping them from just buying an rc car, painting it beige and repeatedly crashing it into quark’s ankles. i’m starting a letter writing campaign to the past
I know that everyone jokes at how lizard/snake-like the cardassians are, but honestly I think Odo has a more snake-like face. Hear me out: Cardassians are kimono dragons, and Odo is a Kenyan Sand Boa
Just thinking about how Odo could be an epic gender fluid character if the show was re-booted.
This should not be shocking and I’m sure I’m not the first person to consider this; but it’d be so cool if there was a DS9 reboot where Odo was gender fluid.
Like some days Odo wakes up and takes female form. Other days male, some days neutral.
You could get exchanges like: “I never understood the humanoid penchant for gendering identities. I have no sex organs thusly I have no sex to correspond too.”
The crew will change the pronouns they use depending on the way Odo is presenting and rarely have trouble because (duh) Odo can make it obvious how they are feeling.
Also Odo is a fairly gender neutral name so that works too.
Would also make Quodo fun because on days where Odo is femme Quark will flirt/ insult and Odo will get annoyed with it and crack down on him.
But on days where Odo is Masculine HE will be the one flirting! And Quark will have NONE OF IT around his Ferengi bar employees.
Thusly adding a fun layer of juicy tension to their relationship.
Double points if when they finally kiss it’s while Odo is masculine. Odo is shocked Quark went for it and Quark gets to say: “it never mattered what you looked like. It was always Odo in the end!”
worf: captain, we must proceed with extreme caution. we must attack now with a show of force
picard: fuck you. FUCK you. no. fuck off
odo: captain, I’m going to pretend to be an end table and spy on our colleagues like, all the time. we should literally bleed every new visitor to see if they’re a humanoid. also your tailor wants to know if you need new pants and if he’s “allowed” some more light war crimes
sisko:
This reminds me of that scene where Worf & Odo are discussing security arrangements for some event on the station because shit went down & Worf’s inner haughty af Karen (“Qa'ren”?) comes out, all “this never happened when I ran shit ON THE FEDERATION FLAGSHIP because I WOULD NEVER—” & Odo is all “o rly?”, pulls out A WHOLE FUCKING LIST of fuckups, & then touches base with his inner Alexander Hamilton as he’s all “on stardate so-&-so, you fucked this up; on stardate such-&-such, you fucked this up; on this other stardate you fucked THIS up—” & Worf is standing there like
