Can we give the female shapeshifter a name? It might be a good idea because it's kind of a pain to type out "female shapeshifter" all the time. Besides, she should have a name.

Let's name her Spot. :)

Wilma

How about "Moomfa"?

Mulak'shum'shi-kolop'nome (accent on the e)

Susie Goo

Gumbette

Oda!!

Speaking of female shapeshifters,

Do changelings really have gender?


If not, it makes you wonder about Kira's and Odo's relationship.

Frankly, I don't want to know about the, ah,
mechanics of Odo/Kira. Some things are best left
a mystery. line eat

To Slinky Frog : So the Female Shapeshifter's name might be Oda? Then, if she changes into -

a fizzy drink -> Soda
a Jedi -> Yoda
a Voyager episode -> Coda
a Chinese temple -> Pagoda
a pre-Dax Trill -> Odan

marian,

If she changes into:

an internal combustion engine -> Moda
a water bag -> Boda

Let's name her Zelda, because she's kind of flaky :-). F. Scott Fitzgerald joke for the Great Unwashed out there...

On the conversation about if Changlings have gender, this first came to my mind in the episode "Sanctuary" Those aliens on that episode (Are they Skreeans?) said taht they are used to dealing with Females. All the guys just kind of grimaced, even Odo. I was half expecting odo, to grow some long hiar and change his uniform into a dress.
Maybe what makes them Male or Female is some sort of enzyme in their goo. Because they can manufacture any parts that they really need.

Marian,

If she changes into:

A budget car -> Skoda
A sales measuring device -> Quoda
An '80s composer -> Giorgio Moroda

A bad sitcom actress -> Rhoda.
A child pianist with a fascination with Mozart -> Shroeder (or Shroda)
-> Likewise "Little Lord Fauntleroy". (Remember that one?)
However, those last two are both male. So where do we stand on this issue? Can a shapeshifter appear to be of the opposite sex? After all, they can appear to be of other races. Surely such simple defining physical attributes as those that differentiate man from woman would be easy to any Founder with a modicum of ability?
Besides, it would hardly be practical, would it? You know how it is, you're trying to take over a quadrant, and you suddenly have to impersonate the Federation Vice-President..except you're male, and she is female! AND you're the only shapeshifter around - oh, well. End of evil plot, then, I guess.

Uh, rachgd, that's a fascination with Beethoven, not Mozart.

SPOILER
Can a shapeshifter appear to be of
the opposite sex?
Odo impersonated the female shapeshifter.

Well, look who's such a cultured Nitpicker! In depth knowledge of composers, no less! Unless it's just the slightly less-impressive in depth knowledge of the Peanuts. Well, ScottN?
Okay, so I was wrong, It's been a while. Sorry.

It's both... And rachgd, take it in the icecream (good humor) in which it was intended... Just so you'll know what kind of warped sense of humor I have, when someone at work says "I'm done", I comment that he looks rather more like Shakespeare or Milton, or tell them that yes, I heard the bell tolling... So, I'm one of those really weird people who knows all sorts of useless trivia... (How else would I have lost at Jeopardy!, or Won Ben Stein's Money?)

Mmmmm, icecream. Seriously, ScottN, I was entirely unoffended! If I were, indeed, that sensitive, I'd never have dared post anything here at all!
Oh, and when people tell me that they're done, I have been heard to ask, "So, you're not an island, then?"
;o)

Most triumphant, rachgd! Actually though, in my misspent youth when I played D&D, my favorite character was an island, and time and tide waited for him... His name was... Noman

Hey, ScottN - just what is Won Ben Stein's Money?
Noman...cute.

Ben Stein, an actor, best know as the teacher in "Ferris Beuller's Day off" going over the attandence report, going "Beuller, Beuller, anyone know where Beuller is, Beuller"

He has his own game show on "Comedy Central" where you answer funny trick questions and win "His money" if you win.

Boy, when I suggested Oda, I didn't realize I was going to start something.

You guys are funny though.


luv ya

My suggestion: She Who Must Be Obeyed! :-)

No, Lea, that's my Mum!

Back to the jokes on "Oda"

If she becomes a flightless bird: Doda
If she becomes friends with Mary Tyler Moore: Rhoda

I've always referred to her as Odo's Mom.
Speaking of Ben Stein. He is so cool. I want to see him play an alien. He would've made a better Think Tank character than Jason Alexander did.
I shudder to think what the follow-up post will say when everyone responds to Odo's Mom regarding the times they linked and did it as solids.

Speaking of Ben Stein. He is so cool. I want to see him play an alien. He would've made a better Think Tank character than Jason Alexander did.

That would be totally awesome!

BrianB wrote on June 10 1999

I shudder to think what the follow-up post will say when everyone responds to Odo's Mom regarding the times they linked and did it as solids.

So would that make our favorite cheif of station security .. Odo-pus? (I just had to use that one!)

LOL David Hensley!!!

Very good.

Still laughing!!!

It's good to know when I've made another laugh...

But seriously, regarding "Odo's mom" - Odo and Laas, and the little one that gave Odo his changeling abilities back were called "infants." So, my question is - do the Founders "reproduce", and if they are all-one, how do they "make" a new consciousness?

Someone should start a board regarding each race/culture - the Founders, the Jem'Hadar, Klingons, Vulcan/Romulans, Cardassians, Bajorans, etc. But where?

Name her Winn Jr. Or Winn Sr. Or Gertrude.

Love it, M!
Let's go with Gertrude!

Wouldn't that make Odo's last name Hamlet?

Gertrude Goo !

Professor ScottN strikes again!

I told you once, I told you twice, rachgd, I'm a dilletante! I am disappointed that nobody liked my suggestion for "Zelda". I mean, the F.S. was rather flaky at the end of the series.

We've just been calling her 'Odo's mum'.

Speaking of the "oda" jokes, has anyone heard Weird Al Yankovich's take on "Lola" by the Kinks? (Think little green man from Star Wars)

Let's name her Puddles.

If she's named Oda, and she changes into an Iron Chef, she'd be Morimoda.

Ducks and runs away...

How about Spoodge?

I'd go with something classic, how's about Almira (hint: "I'm melllting!!!")

How 'bout Protea?

(Proteus was the God who could change his shape at will)

Mrs. Slime

If she's named Oda, and changes into a baseball player, would that make her Manny Moda?

hides from the audience

Some real old names....ones you rarely hear anymore...

A. Esmerelda
B. Gertrude
C. Anastasia

A funny thought:

Morphahontas (ducking from audience)

How about Odysseus?

or...

Your forgetting what she is though, a GOD.

She could be "Sofscrubea, God of Orange Shampoo and Soap"

ScottN - Wouldn't that make Odo's last name Hamlet?

Except when he's shapeshifting in which case he becomes Omelette!

How about... Mrs. Incredible?

Mrs. McGoo

Blobette.

Wouldn't the both of them joined by The Blobsly Twins

how about "God"

Mz. Q!

Odina.

Martia or whatever the shapeshifter from ST6 was named...

Yoeman Janice Rand with her crazy hairdo

74s: huh? We should name the female shapeshifter "Yoeman Janice Rand with her crazy hairdo"? Are you on the right board?

Goo Goo Doll.

Qaurk's Moogie!

Got to be Moomfa. Please use the name Moomfa or perhaps Butenleg.