Talk:Odo (Star Trek)

message: Was there an episode after "The Muse" that says whether Odo and Troi annulled their sham marriage? ShutterBugTrekker 23:58, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odo & Troi 

message: We need a new picture that shows Odo as he usually appears, and maybe one that shows him in his gelatinous state.  I'm not good at all that copyright stuff, so could someone get a more appropriate picture for the article?  Citizen Premier 03:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odo as Curzon? 

message: Even though Odo was one of the shapeshifters that was sent to explore the universe, was he still Considered a "founder" of the Dominion. In the DS9 episode "A Time to Stand", Wayoun treats him very much as he would a "real" leader of the Dominion, accepting his orders without question.
The Vorta are genetically engineered to accept all the Changelings as gods. ~ Anya Prynn 22:21, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rank 

message: "Odo ... never had the skill to duplicate humanoid features with precision, making his humanoid appearance an approximation."
I remember having seen at least one episode where Odo was able to mimic different human(oid) persons quite perfectly. How is this explained?
:The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the proposal was move. This was a difficult one to close.
*The editors who support the move basically argue that most readers would expect to find something other than an article on a recent fictional character. This is generally good, because we optimise for readers. It wouldn't be good if it's merely due to bias against Star Trek but the debate itself concentrated on guidelines and optimal organisation.
*Those who oppose make the very fair point that this article is the only one named just "Odo" (or "Odo (some disambiguating word or phrase)") so by convention it should be the primary topic with a dab header if needed.
*On the other hand, there is a large list of historical figures named "Odo of..." which we may reasonably consider to be "Odo"s.
*Even if we discount the "Odo of ..." historical figures (and it's not at all clear that we should), there are actually several other uses of "Odo" listed on the dab page, including 3 other fictional characters and a genus of spider.
*The Star Trek character has several hundred incoming links, but some of these are due to a template.
*Numerically, the "support"s have it (just) but I don't give much weight to that fact at all.
I'm not inclined to relist, as I feel all pertinent points have likely been made by now.
I have consulted with other admins and the consensus was that the arguments in favour of moving the dab page to the primary topic override the technical consideration that this is the only article named "Odo". I appreciate this will not be universally popular but some decisions are not easy and this one has been taken after deep consideration and consultation with other admins. --kingboyk (talk) 15:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odo's duplication skills 

message: Almost the entire fictional character biography of Odo was removed by User:Arithefrog as their only contribution ever a year and a half ago. While I approve of the concept of separating fact from fiction, the user seems to have gone too far. The article now has pretty much no in-universe biography left. Should the biography be added back? JIP | Talk 23:25, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Almost entire fictional character biography removed 

message: The gender neutral use of "they" and "their" seems unnecessary as "The original Writer's Bible from 1992 for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine described Odo as follows: Odo, an alien male,...".  A quote from within this very article.  The use of these pronouns is confusing here.  I don't recall Odo ever identifying as LGBQT, but I could be wrong.  Anyone remember any such reference other than what the original writer's intended.  Anyone without a political agenda have an opinion on this? Of course the article also states something about the Changlings being agendered species.  Not much is found on Wiki about this though.
: Let's not confuse gender with sex. His species is sexually monomorphic, true. But Odo is consistently referred to as "he" in the series, so Odo's social performance is that of a humanoid male. Given that, and that I don't recall Odo ever discussing his gender identity or challenging his gender role, it may be assumed he is cismale.
: This is a bit of a jugdment call, but I prefer using male pronouns for Odo, taking writer's intentions in lieu of Odo's unstated personal preference. 
: I wouldn't object if the consensus ended up being to use WP:GENDER neutral language, though. Paradoctor (talk) 01:26, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender 

message: Paradise
By Inferno’s Light
Change of Heart Goojrr (talk) 01:22, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deep Space Nine absences