Timeline for Do Shapeshifters, like Odo, shift just shape, or composition as well?
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 21:30 | comment | added | Matthew Najmon | @Xantec You're misusing Occam's Razor. The razor is for situations where you're forced to make a decision without access to all relevant data, and is a useful guide to the best assumptions to base such a decision on. Using it to reach a conclusion when the data doesn't warrant conclusiveness is logically fallacious. When hearing hoofbeats, assuming horses is only slightly less severely wrong than assuming zebras; the correct stance is to conclude hoofed animal, and to leave the question of specific species unresolved pending further data. | |
| Jul 9, 2018 at 23:59 | comment | added | Xantec | @MatthewNajmon although possible, it's a rather complicated scenario. I prefer Occam's Razor when there's no other evidence. | |
| Jul 9, 2018 at 23:47 | comment | added | Matthew Najmon | @Xantec Possibly. That comment on Odo's part also supports the interpretation that they have some sensor-masking ability that automatically works to fool such scans into seeing what they would see if it were a real rock instead of a shapeshifter rock. | |
| Apr 24, 2016 at 20:43 | history | edited | Praxis |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 19:39 | history | edited | ThePopMachine |
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| Sep 10, 2015 at 11:00 | vote | accept | user1008646 | ||
| Sep 9, 2015 at 14:36 | answer | added | ThePopMachine | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 20:06 | comment | added | Xantec | Although you seem to be asking about their composition specifically when in humanoid form, Odo does make the comment in one episode that if you were to scan him when he's a rock all you would detect is a rock. So to a degree they are exactly what they appear to be through and through, at least when simulating simpler objects. | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 15:14 | answer | added | Praxis | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 15:00 | history | asked | user1008646 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |