Changeling
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- Shapeshifter
- Immortal
- None
- Natural form was a gold colored gelatinous liquid
- Must revert to their natural form every sixteen hours, to regenerate
- Those Modified had a reddish, more gelatinous natural form
- Could take virtually any form
- Shared thoughts when they blended together with other Changeling
- Those modified could mimic the internal organs, fluids, & cellular biology of solids
- Could transmit their new abilities to regular Changelings by linking
- Gamma Quadrant
- Dominion
- Unknown
- Jem'Hadar
- Exist as the Great Link: the intermingling of many Changelings
- Gained a huge mistrust of humanoids, which they called solids
- No Changeling had ever harmed another,
- Odo became the first when he killed one to save the Defiant crew
- Evolved from humanoids, once limited to one form
- Were met with fear, rejected & hunted, due to their shapeshifting abilities
- Created & ruled the Dominion, a vast interstellar empire;
- Sent out one hundred infant Changelings into the Galaxy to gather information
- 2371: Targeted by a joint Tal Shiar & Obsidian Order attack;
- A Changeling infiltrator warned them, they relocated their homeworld before the attack
- Infiltrate the Alpha Quadrant, masquerading as important officials
- 2372: Section 31 infected Odo with a morphogenic virus;
- He unknowingly passed it to the Great Link, all changelings were dying
- 2373: The Dominion launched its invasion of the Alpha Quadrant
- During the war, Section 31 imprisoned ten Changelings at Daystrom Station;
- They were subjected to experiments under Project Proteus
- 2375: Dr. Bashir obtained a cure from Solan to save Odo
- Odo agreed to return to the Great Link & cure all of them, if they ended the war
- The Female Changeling agreed, ended the war & Odo returned to the Great Link
- Odo set about trying to reform the Dominion into a more benevolent society
- A group of Changelings broke off from the Great Link to seek revenge for losing the war
- They aligned themselves with the Borg & infiltrated the Federation to set up a Borg takeover
- The Borg was defeated, Dr. Crusher devised a way to detect Changeling infiltrators