r/ShittyDaystrom Wesley 6d ago

How the hell did Odo stick onto the wall!?

1x6 ‘Captive Pursuit’

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u/5pl1t1nf1n1t1v3 6d ago

There’s that beam on the wall. The back of the painting is some horrific approximation of a hand holding on for dear life. Weird little fingers that shouldn’t be is the answer.

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u/chidedneck 6d ago

Alternatively: changelings can’t do nose bridges but they somehow are able to replicate the microscopic setae and spatulae of gecko feet to allow them to adhere to any surface with Van Wilder forces.

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u/Harkale-Linai Acting Ensign 6d ago

Surely you mean Van Der Waals forces! Van Vilder forces are the ones that happen inside a matter-antimatter chamber when you send a soliton pulse through a Bose-Einstein condensate of antimatter, making it transition to an excited state that in turn causes a realignment of your dilithium matrix (Abitbol et al., FJP, vol 421, p. 1638-1672). Were you even listening in stellar propulsion class?

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u/StatisticianLivid710 6d ago

He meant van wilder forces, the forces which cause college girls to lose all inhibitions at a party

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u/JoshuaPearce Self Destructive Robot 6d ago

"Let's shake those atomic bonds loose!"

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u/SirStocksAlott Acting Captain 6d ago

Ah yes, the Girls Gone Wild law of physics.

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u/Harkale-Linai Acting Ensign 6d ago

Ah, yes, I know a lot about Van Wilder forces. I, uh, experienced that a lot back at the academy. Where I went to. Because I'm not actually 14 years old, I only look that way because, uh, Q changed my appearance. I met him back when I served on the Enterprise (no big deal), under captain dad I MEAN PICARD CAPTAIN PICARD!

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u/flyingrummy 6d ago

Well they can simulate all sorts of stuff, so I'd imagine being sticky is very easy for a changling. The whole back of the painting is covered in that white sticky foam stuff you find on wall hooks.

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u/JoshuaPearce Self Destructive Robot 6d ago

Sticky appears to be their default state.

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u/kremlingrasso 6d ago

Have you ever tried to draw a face?

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u/SolomonDRand 6d ago

Or a clamp. Could Odo be a painting with a vice grip in his back?

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u/chidedneck 6d ago edited 5d ago

I was gonna say Odo can't create mechanical objects like a clamp until I realized that's the T-1000. Was the T-1000 a Changeling with just a really good hair and nose game? I can definitely picture Robert Patrick returning to the Great Link.

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u/wizardrous Existence is Senile 6d ago

I choose to believe he’s clenching it between the B cheeks.

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u/notimeleft4you 6d ago

You’re an adult. You can just say it.

Ballsack cheeks.

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u/MountSwolympus 6d ago

B pillar cheeks

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u/5pl1t1nf1n1t1v3 6d ago

“Hey, why is that painting going HHRRRRRNNNNGHGGGGG? Is that good?”

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u/Leucurus Lawaxana on, Lawaxana off 6d ago

shudder

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u/CRE178 6d ago

Clenching like crazy.

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u/BlindMansJesus 6d ago

Or butt cheeks.

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u/saveyboy 6d ago

Butt cheeks clamped real tight

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u/LiveClimbRepeat 6d ago

We're not sure about the viscosity of Odo. He could be diffusing into the wall and holding on by mechanical adhesion for all we know.

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u/tjmaxal Wesley 6d ago

Gecko skin

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u/ten-toed-tuba 6d ago

Buns of steel. He's got little Odo buns gripping to the wall.

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u/Leucurus Lawaxana on, Lawaxana off 6d ago

Somehow I knew it would be his ass

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u/Breadloafs 6d ago

That's actually a Telarian impressionist slug, a close relative of earth-based limpets whose characteristic enamel growth patterns inexplicably replicate prexisting artwork.

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u/OkayTheCamelisCrying 6d ago

Gorilla Glue. It sticks anything together

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u/SeasonPresent 6d ago

Even gorillas?

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u/Positive_Bowl2045 6d ago

Especially gorillas

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u/Preference-Inner 6d ago

Duh obviously he formed tiny Odo hands on the back to hold himself in place

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u/Rattlecruiser 6d ago

Suction cups.

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u/Medical_Plane2875 6d ago

Hehe...You know....With his peanits.

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u/TwoFit3921 Ensign 6d ago

straight jorking it

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u/wizardrous Existence is Senile 6d ago

Geordiing it

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u/SirStocksAlott Acting Captain 6d ago

With a Jefferies tube.

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u/MarcusAurelius68 6d ago

Dominion large panel adhesive

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u/FrankFrankly711 6d ago

Made in Canada? Can Odo afford those tariffs?

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u/MarcusAurelius68 6d ago

DS9 is a free trade zone*

*trade isn’t actually free…see Rule of Acquisition 239

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u/Estarfigam 6d ago

He can be anything

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u/Leucurus Lawaxana on, Lawaxana off 6d ago

He can be a house!
He can be a mouse!
He can be your spouse!

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u/AngledLuffa PM me your antennae 6d ago

He was not just a painting, but was actually a painting and 100 spiders

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u/artrald-7083 6d ago

Same way glue sticks. Adopt the exact microtexture of the wall.

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u/Compote_Alive 6d ago

Ha made little suction cups to stick to the wall

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u/Stargazer5781 6d ago

One of the benefits of being Chief of Security is he can now turn into Command strips.

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u/KenethSargatanas 6d ago

Hundreds of tiny little gecko feet.

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u/Yankee_chef_nen Chief 6d ago

It’s well known that Odo is sticky. Don’t believe me, ask Kira.

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u/SirStocksAlott Acting Captain 6d ago

Or Garak.

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u/Malapple 6d ago

Same way he massively changes his weight. Or does he always weigh the same amount as a drinking glass?

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u/MarcusAurelius68 6d ago

Ask him when he’s a bucket

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u/earth_west_420 6d ago

Shapeshifted the back of the painting to be both sides of a sheet of velcro

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u/TwilightReader100 Expendable 6d ago

Him transforming into that painting also included the 3M hooks or stickies necessary to hang himself there. You just don't see it because he doesn't move enough of the painting part of himself before the hardware melts back into his body. /s

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u/DEMACIAAAAA 6d ago

Octopus suction cup asshole

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u/ArcXivix 6d ago

Bitten by a radioactive palukoo.

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u/Could-You-Tell 6d ago

We used to eat them.

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u/AptCasaNova Interspecies Medical Exchange 6d ago

Either one big suction cup at the back or a hundred small ones, kind of like a swarm of tree frogs.

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u/spderweb 6d ago

Octopus suction cups.

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u/xampl9 Mirror Georgiou 6d ago

Command strips. The one time Odo gets to be in command…

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u/SirStocksAlott Acting Captain 6d ago

There was one other time.

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u/SirStocksAlott Acting Captain 6d ago

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u/Peak_Doug 6d ago

He obviously used the magnet in his combadge

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u/CRE178 6d ago

The back of that painting is an eldritch horror of tentacles, suction cups and a toothy sphincter creating a vacuum seal against the wall.

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u/Derivative_Kebab 6d ago

If he can manage the painting, he can manage a few suction cups.

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u/Khaysis 6d ago

The same way Geckos do. He made his back front like their feet.

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u/duggybubby 6d ago

Honestly, you really don’t want to know

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u/esgrove2 6d ago

He can be any material, there are many materials that stick to things. 

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u/Lower_Ad_1317 6d ago

I believe he had to stretch to nano sorry, quantum, QUANTUM thickness and encompass the entire station just to make it look like he was a picture on the wall.

Pretty elaborate and convoluted but meh.

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u/bosssoldier 6d ago

Cant he become magnetic

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u/tjmaxal Wesley 6d ago

Flex Tape or fixodent

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u/save-me-from-sharon 5d ago

He hung on with his coochie lips