I tried to covert the DS9 footage to 4K using AI upscaling software, but it kept messing up the faces. Some people have had success experimenting with this tech in short bursts, but I hope you'll forgive me for not being able to magically deliver DS9 in ultra-HD. WE NEED A REMASTER!

Jeffrey Combs was awesome as Weyoun. He is a vastly underrated actor.

I believed that the Dominion is the BEST adversary in the Star Trek universe

Great vid as always, the dominion to me is the "borg of DS9" in the sense of being a original character (or race) to a series. I absolutely think the mystery of the dominion and the slow revealing of their structure is some of the most interesting writing in the entire series.

I could easily see changelings becoming large solar sails catching tachyon waves.

I think it's interesting how they basically made him a shapeshifter because the T1000 technology was no longer cost-prohibitive and it was a really cool effect to draw people in ("will he shape shift in this episode?"). Of course now all this stuff is canon we have people like you trying to figure it all out, and maybe even some of this is discussed in official technical manuals, but it's all just "editing in post" so-to-speak to cover up that they just wanted to use a really kickass effect from T2.

When you started mentioning using an alternate dimensional space to funnel mass into, it totally reminded me of how some transformers are giant robots but can still transform into small human sized and weighted boomboxes

I had forgotten that changelings could become objects like electronics. That happened in the animated series with the Vendorian. He became part of the deflector dish.

The mass issue with changelings cones from assuming Odo isn't very lightweight. He could weigh very little and compensate for being flimsy by selectively hardening places where he touches other people or things, and didn't blow away in the wind by creating little grippers on the bottom of his feet like bugs have. There's also not much of a limit on his strength because he doesn't rely on muscles like we do and there's no telling how strong the bonds of his molecules are.

My theory with regard to Founder reproduction is that in the link, they are pure thought patterns and that together they are an even greater set of thought patterns that mingle and change over time. Essentially, they are all thought in the medium of the liquid-like organic material. In the link, they individuated when new and unique thought processes emerge from the already flowing thought processes of the Changelings as a whole. Think of it as programs running on hardware and the software interacts and their emerges a glitch that was unforeseen. In this case, that glitch is a new unique Founder that then grows and evolves into a fully sentient and individuated mind. When they want to explore they simply gather some of the liquid medium to them, disconnecting their unique mental processes from the whole and leave the Great Link. The liquid form isn't their body in a true sense, but rather just a piece of the medium that holds their mental processes. If they separate a newly formed mind from the rest of the link and then send it off, it will grow slowly into a sentient being, but only if it has stimulus to teach it. Thus Oddo grew to be who he was, who was a being different from other Founders. When he returned to the Link, his mind shared his experiences with the rest of the minds in the link. Each Changeling is an emergent property of the interactions of all the Changelings in the Link.They don't have a mother and father, but emerged from the whole.

I've watched every one of these episodes before and I just watched them all again. Great work; keep 'em coming!

I have always found the changelings choice to abandon 100 of their children into space deeply disturbing. Honestly, of all the things they did, that's the one that I find the most upsetting, especially given their history.

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I love the way you overthink. 👍

The Dominion has endured for two thousand years and will continue to endure long after the Federation has crumbled into dust

I always imagined the origin of the changelings being like a spore game that stays in the cell stage up till the space age

Oddly enough a Galactic Dominion would be a fairly peaceful galaxy under the protection of the Jem'Hadar.

Fan : "How do the changelings alter their mass when morphing?" Berman : "I don't know. Transformers did it."

21:45 love the way you add jokes when least expected 😂

Has anybody seen the movie, "Enemy Mine"

I know the dominion had probably hundreds of species under its control, but I think they needed at least one more race to be one of their main ones. The vorta are overseers and the jeml hadar are soldiers. They need a race to operate, build, and repair their ships. Having the jem hadar do it didn't make sense. They didnt live long enough to train in operations and maintenance and their genetic k knowledge if fighting is an unrelated skill

Earth Final Conflict---Uplifting Humans!!!!!

Does anyone else think it was nuts when the Federation decided that it was ok for their ships to continue to explore the Gamma Quadrant after the Dominion told them to butt out? I guess it's not clear if the Gamma Quadrant terminus of the wormhole was actually in Dominion held space. If it was though, it seems nuts to me that the Federation would be like, too bad, we found this wormhole to a distant quadrant, we're going to invade (explore) it as much as we like. That seems to echo Dax's comment "You're making a mistake if you think that detaining Commander Sisko will stop us from exploring the Gamma Quadrant". What right did the Federation have to explore the Gamma Quadrant? No right as far as I can tell. You can guarantee if the Jem'hadar emerged from a wormhole in Federation space, they would be met with significant force.

23:40 "Have you met the average person?" Well of course I know him, he's me.

Totally not a Trekkie here, so correct me if I'm wrong, but if Changelings can turn themselves even into gases, I don't think it's too far fetched that the one who turned into a glass had the rest of their mass floating around the glass as an invisible gas cloud, so theoretically there shouldn't be a limit to how little they can be perceived to weigh, as long as their weight doesn't surpass their mass

What I would find fascinating, and I wish the new series would explore this, is what first contact between the Dominion and the Borg, or the Q, or any of the other Uber races would be like. I feel Discovery has a real opportunity here to explore what the aftermath of such a said event would be on the Dominion, or any such other race.

After exhaustive research I’ve concluded that the changlings abilities are tied to the Mycelial Network.

It's fascinating that No matter what Race of creature is on star trek they all have the same hands

Remember when Odo said "it's Morphin time"

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Excellent Video man! Bravo 👏

Is it just me, or does the Dominion logo look like a bong? @0:06

Great summary!

I enjoyed this very much, thank you Tyler.

" He's got you there, Yelgrin! "

Fantastic!

So wait... You're telling me the Founders could turn into a perfect replica of a rock or a dead leaf, and yet they were being successfully hunted by meatbags like us? How? Just... fold all of your mass into your little pocket dimension and float elsewhere. There's nothing us "solids" can do against that. Or turn into a 10 ft. tall amorphous hulking rage monster and tear their arms off.

Good morning I am always happy when you put out interesting information about the many races of Star Trek THANKS

Great video thank you so much please keep up your amazing work stay safe and happy Halloween

In Clive Barker's novel The Great and Secret Show one of the characters (can't remember his name) is an "uplifted" chimpanzee.

The Annunaki also created Scooby Doo's talking dog subspecies.

Man alive your videos are fantastic, loving (and consuming) your wonderful content.

Nice, thank you for the video.

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"Ancient Aliens" that had visited Earth appeared a couple of times in TOS, most notably in "Who Mourns for Adonais", where the crew meets Apollo. Then there were aliens who copied certain aspects of Human culture, like Parmen's people, and even those that came for nefarious purposes, like Redjac.

I enjoyed this video very much..👍🏼

Fun Fact: the Changlings have been kicked out of over 100 systems.

Thank you!

Excellent. LLAP!

That outro tune slaps hard.

Jeffrey combs is probably my favorite actor on st. So many great characters. And the dr on ent.

I think 10,000 years ago they evolved into changelings but established the dominion over that time. They are after all timeless. It could be argued that the dominion started their expansion 2000 years ago perfecting the vorta and Jemhadar before going public!

Since Changlings seem to be nearly immortal, they probably have been around 10,000 years and no wonder they perfected cloning. They only way to make your servants as long lived.

The jem Hadar are my favorite alien warrior species, with their unique personality and outlook and truly excellent makeup giving each one a unique appearance while still being recognizably jem Hadar, reptilian/saurian, and utilitarian. I always wondered about their names though. What do you think was the inspiration of 'jem hadar', 'ometaclan' and 'remataclan', which are cool sounding and unique and sound derivative of an actual spoken language rather than just feeling alien in a human mouth? Also, imo it's far more likely they are recycled before 25 because 25 years is how long it takes for neuro peptides to degrade and require replacement, at least in humans, leading to some with crippling lifelong genetic phobias like arachnophobia losing their phobias as they surpass that age from the simulating primary incident. Since the jem Hadar don't even eat, something similar may be happening with their brains, with their true native state being thoughtful, independent and concerned for their own kind rather than servile, just like that one jem Hadar anomaly encountered by Bashir and Miles. He ate, and maybe eating while having nothing to fight or pursue kick-started a latent autophagy and renewal process that sped up the loss of old prejudices. Also, since their bony ridges only occur at their ridges, and since they are designed to be elite warriors, it seems less likely that their bodies are designed to painfully lose flexibility over time. Two final notes, maybe psychic powers are how vorta memories get transferred, as changelings seem to have some sort of psychic draw to one another and even to discarded pieces of their own bodies, drawing them back to a complete form when not under a suppression field, possibly because they are all connected on some other dimension. It's possible they drew from that to create the vorta. One final note is that I think the female changeling once mentioned their kind originally being like the solids long ago, which explains how they so easily converted odo into a humanoid. I still like the fan theory that they were the original progenitor species that seeded the galaxy with humanoid life, and they've simply forgotten or split off from that group.

im still hoping for "all the way" jokes

Everyone know that the Great Link is just a pool of LCL

You know what else growing babies in tube could do? Literally commodify a work force, or an Army.

The Founders are wise in all things.

wow the changelinks could take over a borg cube with ease and absorbe the cubes technology.

Maybe the changelings reproduce through a type of mitosis. Like Yaphit from The Orville is able to do.

It's been a long time since I've even delved into the Star Trek universe(s). I had barely scratched the beginning of the "Dominion War" when circumstances beyond my control forced me to put this (and a great many other things) on hold. So please forgive if my comment seems woefully out of date. Going on your description of some of the physiological processes of the Jem' Hadar, I wonder if maybe they might share a common link to another Gamma Quadrant race: the Tosc (DS9 season 1).

well in TOS uplifting was in who mourns for Adonis where it’s expressed that the Greek gods did exist

Odo could not communicate with With other Changelings until they joined.

That is the case with common folks, because they have been mind polluted away from seeing the treasures of the self and the value of mastery of their own self. They cannot or will not do their own thinking, and are victims of conditioned helplessness. Instead they surrender that mastery without questioning to external masters who direct their thinking to believe that image and perspective is everything. This means that they mindlessly conform and comply to unquestioned authority, thereby becoming unwitting mind-slaves "who are readily "Out-thunk" by their masters. Much to be said about going to your own "control room," and take control of your control room, to maintain control.

I don't for a second believe the sob story told by the Founders about their past "unreasonable repression". Not withstanding that it came from a Weyoun-line Vorta (who, while a traitor to the Dominion, still believed the Founders were Gods), I find it far more likely that the Founders were ALWAYS trying to infiltrate and manipulate Solids, but they were burned too many times by the Solids' natural reactions to their attempts at, then "good natured", manipulation and control. Given the nature of the Great Link, they never really understood individuality and so this ignorance eventually became a willful disdain for Solids, that was then fueled by the natural desire for order into a real hatred of Solids.

"Have you met the average person?" I have, and you are correct sir.

On the Ancient Alien theory, you missed the TNG episode where Humans, Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians found out they shared a genetic template. Funny enough the actress that plays the Female Changeling appeared as the aliens who claimed to have seeded each world.

Do the other shape shifting species 1. Know of each other? 2. Are they friendly towards each other?

Frank Herbert's "axolatl tanks" are coming.

I think both "timelines" are correct in a sense. The changlelings are 10000 years old as we know them now. Might also be the time they uplifted the vorta. 2000 years ago is when they created the jem'hadar

Are we even sure that the changelings are organic? Personally, may have been a form of smart matter. Ninites, that became sentient.

I'm glad the in discovery when they showed a changeling that they didn't show it changing (probably would've butchered it like the Klingons when they tried too hard). That means they can still do what I want, and that is for them to still look like 90's CGI so that instead of it making DS9 look like bad CGI it will instead just be how it's supposed to look.

The Jem Hadar don't teach full maturity in 3 days, all that's said is they are "able to fight" within 3 days.

You should read Children of Time if you haven't, very interesting uplift-focused sci-fi novel While I am here, thanks for all the interesting videos!

What I find interesting and what I think is overlooked is the wormhole in all of this. Was the Dominion never aware of these sorta of phenomena inside their controlled area? Its something you would want to control/ block off. Whats their view of the Wormhole aliens?

The Dominion is kinda akin to a universe, where the Federation, had continued with eugenics - without all that twisty shapey stuff

I never really got into ds9 but I would have like to see more of the structural empire of the Dominican. Like more of the species that inhabit it and what there roles are.

What if the larger shape Odo assumed was his total mass? And the mass of the Changeling doesn't actually change? What if they 'store' the unused mass in plain sight? When we see the glass shatter, Odo is able to 'pull himself together', which shows all the separate pieces can act individually. What if the rest of him was a thin layer spread over the floor? Thus, when he takes human form, he leave the rest of himself behind in his quarters, as a floor lamp or some-such?

When transforming into smaller objects, could the changeling theoretically convert a large portion of their mass into air? So they could have the main object they turned into be the correct weight while still having the rest of their mass nearby

I would love to know your thoughts on the outcome of a showdown between the borg and the dominion. The Borg would be able to assimilate Jem’Hadar but would they be able to keep them alive without ketracil white? The Vorta would likely kill themselves before being assimilated to protect the founders, so even if they knew how to make the white, they wouldn’t easily let the Borg get that info. Could the founders even be assimilated? How would nanotech interact with their biology? If they could be assimilated how would that change the trajectory of Borg evolution??? 🤯

Are the liquid beings from the Demon planet in Voyager another race similar to the changelings, but in a very early stage of evolution?

had a thought about the dominion age thing, what if it's in a way both? What if it was where the Dominion were initially founded 10,000 years ago however the dominion in their MODERN state wouldn't come to be until 2,000 years ago? Probably easy to disprove but was just a thought

When I first watched the series back while it was a live series, I swear I thought they were saying “The Great Lake” not Link. Just because it looked like a big lake when they were together and it truly sounded like they were saying lake. Wasn’t until I watched an episode with a deaf friend and he had the CC turned on did I see they were saying Link. I know this has nothing to do with nothing, just an weird thing.

I always found uplifting as a silly concept once more useful ideas like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence which made it clear that any potential future servitor races wood in my opinion be most likely wholly artificial and not just artificially enhanced

If the great link is so great why isn’t there a great link 2? (Or Great Link-A)

Even a young Changeling would destroy Terminator's T1000. They can turn into fire and that's what kills a T1000 as they are just liquid metal. I went ahead and spoiled "Deathbattle" LOL!

"They remember who Houdini is?" yes, the literature/entertainment of the future in Star Trek is based mostly on the history of Earth, almost like creative types stopped being able to write compelling quality stories post formation of the United Earth and Federation of Planets.

Odo turning into a chair..

If you think of The Changelings like an intelligent shapeshifting water like liquid. Ice the solid form of water is lighter than the liquid form and the gaseous form is lighter still. So what if Odo shapeshifted into a glass filled with pressurized gas light enough not to be noticed?

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Not saying it still wouldn't be inconceivably hard to do, but shouldn't it at least be a tiny bit easier to implant memories into the brain of a clone of the original bearer of those memories? Then again, what little we know about how memory formation, retention and recall still points to the problem that our brains change all the time, making and breaking connections, so unless you take the brain scan and the DNA sample at the exact same time it still probably wouldn't make the process any easier, and then you still wouldn't retain any of the memories between your scan and your subsequent death. Also it opens up another can of worms with whether said clone would really be a reincarnation of you, I mean, I'm with the Vorta. If a clone with a copy of my memories and personality woke up after I was dead, I can say with a fair degree of certainty that it wouldn't consider itself to be me, because I wouldn't. I would consider it to be a different person, but I could also easily accept that it would be a different person with my current memories and personality, so numbers make perfect sense.

Thank you. These videos are so interesting

Vorta have telekinesis but they just never had a need to use it. At least in my head. Does anybody know of any books where Vorta use it?

26:25 What fate Omirocca?

But weren't the Jemhadar a bunch of junkies hooked on Ketracell White? Didn't Lor break some of them out of their addiction? Or was it Dr. Julian? The Jemhadar were only controllable through a drug. The Founders were the dealers. The addiction was being broken under supervision and research of Bashir. I thought.

who what win in the fight the Borg from Star Trek all the Dominion and why?

is that why jem hadar are mostly played be pocs?

Changeling Reproduction. Considering the way The Link works is just a giant ocean of liquid that exists as a single entity, and a Changeling comes into being because the link puts a set of memories from the mass into a limited blob of goo... Couple this with the fact that when a piece of a Changeling is separated from the rest of their body reverts to goo form... I would suspect that, this is how offspring are created. Separate a blob of goo from either The Link itself, or a Changeling, and if kept in isolation long enough, it will form into a new Changeling. The fact that Odo (and the other members of The Hundred) had an instinct to return home to the Omarian Nebula, I guess that's the only "Memories" they were given.

all that about him being abl to change mass.. and the sex part. no wonder kira ws into odo

Are all Vorta clones? I always thought it was just the Weyouns. Other Vorta we meet don't seem to be clones, though I may be mistaken.