Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Shadowplay (1994)

Noley Thornton: Taya

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• Taya : What happened to your face?

  Odo : Nothing happened to my face; I'm a shapeshifter. I just don't do faces very well.

• Taya : Your face isn't so scary, once you get used to it.

• Taya : If I were a changeling, I'd change shapes all the time. Everyone'd want to be my friend.

  Odo : [scoffs]  I wish it were that easy.

  Taya : Why wouldn't it be?

  Odo : When I was younger, people were always asking me to change shape for them. They pretended to be my friends. But all they wanted was to see me become a chair or... animal. None of them ever really cared about me.

• Taya : ...Then the Great Minra said to the evil changeling, "Maybe you can turn into a mountain, or a Ghergher Beast, or a tornado. Those are big things, and big things are easy. I bet you can't turn into something small - like a loaf of greenbread." And the changeling said, "Yes I can", and he did. And do you know what happened?

  Odo : The Great Minra gobbled him up.

  Taya : How'd you know that?

  Odo : The changeling in your story wasn't very smart.

  Taya : [shrewdly]  Could you turn into a loaf of greenbread?

  Odo : I suppose I could.

  Taya : Show me.

  Odo : And let you gobble me up? I don't think so!

• Taya : Thank you for bringing my mother back. I hope you find your parents too.