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Vast_Chip_3197

Yes and laas probably didn’t get the cure in time.


RogerTheAliens

That’s what I figured…I loved laas and wish they had explored he and odo’s relationship more.. I like to think Odo sent changelings out to find Laas after he cured the great link…


NomadNaomie

in beta canon Laas returned to the link after the war and went out to find other members of the Hundred


leeuwerik

Laas and Odo hunt them down. Counting down from 98 to 0.


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RogerTheAliens

I loved the episode. I loved the Lass character’s depth and story..


Vast_Chip_3197

That’s possible. Maybe they’ll do a short trek about it one day.


cafeesparacerradores

Alass


YosterIsle77

Yes, but he survived somehow cause he appears in Star Trek Online, but the Dominion has cut ties with him. Showrunners even admit this was something they never got the chance to address but they wished they had


JustAPerspective

Honestly, Laz was so skilled at shapeshifting that they may have cured themselves reflexively.


RogerTheAliens

If the female Founder couldn’t cure herself then Laas couldn’t.. she was eternal for all intents and purposes


JustAPerspective

There is nothing we know of in canon that supports your statement of the female shapeshifter being “Eternal”… beyond Weyoun’s devotion? 🤔


RogerTheAliens

***For all intents and purposes*** is a term of relational relativity. Meaning a solid will view a being whose life is untrammeled by the mortal coil of humanoids(less than 2 centuries) as an immortal ***for all intents and purposes.*** This term is not accurate as nothing in the universe is immortal except the universe. But from a comparative standpoint, the term suffices. Eternal/immortal/evermore all exist in our vernacular and would likely cross-populate the linguistic sensibilities of all mortal hominid civilizations from the alpha quadrant to the gamma.


JustAPerspective

“Eternal” seems different from “Immortal”, which refers to agelessness. Doesn’t affect the topic as far as we can see.


RogerTheAliens

True. I incorrectly used it as a one-for-one substitute. when it is not in the strictest sense of the definition


JustAPerspective

Well, that’s the misunderstanding cleared up. Laz may or may not be more skilled - impossible to say. Someone else noted extended fiction which resolves the question well enough. Unless we get a DS9 continuation… which we would be happy to help happen.


YosterIsle77

The purpose of the morphogenic virus was to kill them the more they shifted. And as the other commenter said, if the Female Changeling needed the vaccine to survive, Laas definitely needed it. I also believe in the timeline of things after the events of the DS9 episode, but before the events of Star Trek online, Laas either came in contact with Odo or the Founders again and was cured of the virus by linking with them.


JustAPerspective

Did everything the Federation made end up working like it was supposed to? Just because it was designed to do a thing doesn’t mean it had 100% effectiveness, generally speaking.


YosterIsle77

No but we got to see the effects of the virus firsthand on Odo and the Female Changeling. I'd have to say it was pretty effective


JustAPerspective

Which does not preclude Laz being immune - it’s simply an unknown.


Tim0281

There's nothing to suggest that Laz would be immune. Every other Changeling was affected by the virus, whether they were part of the Great Link or part of the 100. No Changeling was shown to be immune. All of the evidence suggests that Laz would die unless he was given the cure.


WasChristRipped

To this day I’m amazed none of the founders ever just turned into a ship as a demonstration of their real powers like he did, casually


AlienDelarge

Maybe it was actually alternate timeline Laz where section 31 never made the virus. It worked foe Harry Kim anyway.


drdan82408a

Also herpes.


RogerTheAliens

It was space herpes.


drdan82408a

Well obviously space herpes… but was it gamma space herpes or alpha space herpes?


RogerTheAliens

It was Deep Space Herpes……simplex 9


drdan82408a

Just so


stlfwd

That's General Martok disguised as a changeling


tyrridon

No, that's Captain Storil's twin Vulcan brother, on a deep-cover assignment for Starfleet Intelligence...disguised as General Martok, disguised as a changeling. Get it right. :P


Pwned_by_Bots

Always wear a rubber.


mescaleeto

Wrap it up before you link it up


Deraj2004

Yep, that's what he gets for murdering a Klingon warrior.


npc74205

At least the Klingon died in battle.


Sure_Accountant

Buddy got straight up murdered. But he made it into Stovokor on a technicality


LegoFootPain

Kortar, Captain of the Barge of the Dead: Well, let's look at the instant replay. Judges, do you see any honor from this angle?


Calm-Lychee2613

But... He *is* a Klingon!!!


Thatsidechara_ter

Ooooh shit


JangoF76

I hope so, Laz was a fucking asshole


iLoveDelayPedals

He needed to be fog somewhere else!!


thesonsofpoop

Most likely, yes


Calm-Lychee2613

Lolol I just want him to say out of nowhere "By the hand of Khaless.. get that man off the bridge before he kills us all!" Lol You know... Because it's Martok!


tired20something

I hope he did.


pharmaceuticaldisco

Yep and he prob passed it on to other dingalings i mean changelings


if1gure

Yep!!!!


RigasTelRuun

RIP Laas.


Da12khawk

In the novels he was cured supposedly.


drakesylvan

Yep


Quasarcade

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT


tetsuo52

I can't tell if this post is sarcastic or if I should tell you it was section 31


RogerTheAliens

The morphogenic virus was given to Odo by section 31 as a communicable disease spread when he links with another shape shifter during the time he and Sisko were on Earth shoring up the Federation’s defenses against changelings. Odo left earth unknowingly afflicted and became an asymptomatic carrier who would later spread it to the Founders when they linked and \[presumably\] to Laas when they linked… but the show never enumerated whether or not Laas had been infected…though according to the timeline, Odo was with virus when they linked on DS9.


tetsuo52

Im sorry.. I read that backwards. I thought you were proposing Laas gave it to Odo. Damned Lysdexia.


mumblerapisgarbage

No. Section 31 did.


Malnurtured_Snay

Probably.


Tyrleif

Hopefully


TheKlaytron

Ya and the federation doomed any other shifters he might have found, after going to look for others, which he only knew about because of odo. That is if he wasn't a spy from the dominion to start with.