Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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Assuming whatever spoilers come true, we have these facts: that Section 31 created the Changeling's Disease, and secondly, Odo has it too. Which means that there has to be a point in time when Odo and the Changelings were together so that the disease would be transmitted throughout the Great Link.
Here is what I think has happened.........
Soon after discovery of the new Threat, and reports from Commander Sisko (at the time, season 3 or so), Section 31 mobilizes into action. Around the same time, Section 31 has obtained a baby Changeling (probably more), one of the many scouts sent out by the Great Link. Whatever the case, these baby Changelings were used as guinea pigs to test the disease.
Once the project was finished, the only obstacle was how to infect the entire Great Link. At that same time, reports come in that the Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order were ambushed at the Changeling's home near the Omarion Nebula. This creates the second problem, S31 no longer knew the new location of the Great Link. So they decide to try Odo. S31 speculates that Odo might defect from the Feds and join up with the Great Link. One of its operatives secretly infects Odo (could have happened at any time between the Rom/Card attack and the Trial).
Odo becomes sick, but it is not the result of the virus. In fact it has been activated by the Great Link. This forces Odo to return home and stand trial. Odo merges with the Great Link, and the disease is transmitted.
One possible flaw: why did Odo not come up with the disease before the others did? There are many possible answers: a time-delayed virus (hey, genetic engineering might achieve this); the differences of environment between the Great Link and DS9, etc. etc. Whatever it was, it was a perfectly crafted virus.
Comments appreciated. And perhaps some other possible scenarios too.
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The First One
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Member # 35
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More likely, s31 might have had an agent on DS9 waiting for jusr such an opportunity to infect Odo - and since they seem to have taken a special interest in Dr. Bashir, they'd be watching him too and even if Odo's illness was kept secret, they'd know about it from their observations of Bashir.
So, seeing him to be ill and maybe finding out about the plans to return him to the Link, the agent infected him hoping that if the virus did activate prematurely, it'd be concealed by his other symptoms.
Why didn't it show before? Well, who knows what being made human and then getting his true nature restored by the infant changeling might have done? Maybe, in fact, that's why the infant died - too weak to resist the illness which it still got from Odo even though he couldn't shapeshift!
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What if the s31 agent on DS9 was Garak? Let's see, easy access to Bashir,a known liar with a shady past... he might have been with s31 as a double agent right back to his days with the Obsidian Order. And how about his little incident in "Broken Link"? Huh? Huh?
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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Other possibility: Between the time when the Dominion head to Cardassia and the Wormhole was mined by Sisko, the Dominion may have had free reign going to and from the Alpha Quadrant. Perhaps a changeling was infected at that time, infected the AQ changelings, then went back to the Gamma Quadrant to (mistakenly) infect the rest of the Great Link.
Odo could have received the disease from the Female Changeling by linking with her.
Problems: The window of opportunity to find a changeling and infect him/her is very small. And considering the effectiveness and efficiency of Dominion security (cue Garak's friends getting killed within a day of talking to him), getting a spy down there could be very difficult.
Re: Garak as spy- Hmmm..... never thought of that. The possibilities are endless..... and the plot thickens too.
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[This message was edited by Tahna Los on April 11, 1999.]
Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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Recent spoilers have O'Brien and Bashir working on a cure. I bet that S31 will do anything to stop them, but fail. Bashir will probably come up with a cure, either through his genetically engineered knowledge, or from the secret S31 files on the disease.
Bottom line: the Changelings may survive, but it may not spell the end of the war.
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Could the antidote be used as a bargaining chip for the dismantling of the dominion?
Or could Odo agree to rejoin the link, thus curing them, in exchange for the dominon surrender? She did say that there was nothing more important than Odo returning to them....
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The key to all this is Quark...secret head of Ferengi intelligence, and Grand Nagus Anon *L*
*Gets pulled back into reality* However, if Garak is the cause of the disease would this not also mean that he's rather higher up in the Cardassian Govt than suspected?
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