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And if the thing really goes into a subspace pocket, then the "melting" we saw in "The Siege" would simply be what things look like when moving in or out of such subspace pockets.
What is the most complicated thing Odo has transformed into, that cannot have been a readymade object he burped out of his subspace innards? A furry rat with whiskers? A feathered, flying bird? A pair of working handcuffs? An attache case? A near-perfectly transparent glass with sharp edges?
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I don't know if it was from an episode or an interview with Ren�, but there was the subject about Odo being able to turn into a perfect looking Rat for example, but still couldn't pull of a Bajoran face... Well, the response was, maybe to other rats, the Odo rat doesn't look very ratty at all... etc.
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Wasn't one of those episodes with Odo's Bajoran doctor friend all about how his inability to do humanoid faces was just a psychological hangup?
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Yeah. "Homefront" makes canonical the thing about an Odo-seagull not looking convincing to real seagulls even if it fools humans, and I think "Begotten" nails down the ugly-face-as-psychological-hangup thing. So both factors are probably at play when Odo fails to do a human face.
Note also that humans emote a lot with their faces, while rats or seagulls do not. A simple static human face mask would probably be easy for Odo (he can do other static human things like detailed nipples just fine, as we saw in "A Simple Investigation") but he couldn't smirk or frown convincingly with one. Or he wouldn't WANT to, because naturally his humanoid "friends" would see the immense potential of their constable being able to become any humanoid person they want him to become. And naturally these "friends" would bother him to no end with such requests.
I guess Odo could do a good Ferengi. Or any other species that looks as if a large percentage of its face is covered with latex.
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