Yeah, that's a really good solution. There would have to be something that gives the audience a clue that we're dealing with the same character I think so the actors would have to really collaborate on their collective characters. That's really a great idea.

That's possible. Rene gave odo a real presence though. I don't know how well another actor would mimic it. They could always do something like interstellar. That character who was left on the ship by himself for all those years was markedly different from the character before they left for the water planet.

That didn't work out so well with Tony soprano in the HBO movie though.

He does like so much like him, however with Odo that isn't the most important thing. The voice is much more important and René's voice is so very distinctive.

I remember that. He came out of the wormhole, making a warning, and his ship exploded if I remember right.

Yeah that's always a potential thing they could continue from, or scrap at will. (I watched that again just this weekend lol)

Ohh man, the "demon planet" melting voyager clone episode really set my teeth on edge with this.

Super interesting premise, the metal clones fly out on their own ship, invent/discover new warp tech that is super useful, almost get to earth, but then begin to melt. People die, Tom gets dark and broody in a realistic way, but then as its getting good they all start to die to wrap it up in one episode. So they super warp home to the devil planet, but they realize they arent going to make it, so they fire off a "stable bouy" about who they are/what they learned. By pure, totally realistic happenstance, this buoy both doesn't survive and the actual voyager is passing nearby at the time, just close enough to see their destroyed remains.

In the insane vastness of space, the chances of these two ships with vastly different propulsion capabilities passing by each other in the very minutes one of them disintegrates is so unlikely as to be nearly impossible, and of course it failed in a way that fully resets any boons actual voyager might have gained from it.

It would have been way more poignant to have the bouy survive, but to have voyager well past it, not able to learn from it because they had gone beyond. To never have them even see or interact with their copies, just to have those copies set out on their same journey but fail, with only a lone bouy to remember them by. A true reminder, a real boon, but one outside of voyagers reach by random chance. Actual life.

But nah, just reset the whole promise of the episode in the last 2 minutes instead.

If it weren't for tuvok and the doctor I don't think I could have finished that series. It's the only trek I've never really rewatched too. Not counting the modern shows.

I want CBS to, on hands and knees, beg RDM to fix Trek now. Oh I'd squeal like a 60s girl at a Beatles concert.

God damn. I'm almost done watching DS9 for the first time right now and was planning on diving into Voyager right after. But this makes me not want to.

That's really interesting, thank you for going to the effort to share those page.

Personally I'd be okay recasting the role. I'd totally buy that his experiences with the founders could change him physically.