Talk:Kasidy Yates

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[edit] Redirect overkill

It is really necessary to have every variation of mispelling for her name redirected here? --Alan del Beccio 23:52, 22 Nov 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Changeling

When she first appeared I was suspicious that see was a changeling agent. I was waiting for her to eat something. In the scenes with her and Sisko having dinner I was watching to see if she actually ate anything. She never did IIRC - their meals were always interupted by something. Was it a possibilty the writers were keeping open?--Great Bear 22:11, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Changelings can eat, they just don't need it. MaGnUs 03:22, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Changelings can eat, but it is not a good idea, as they don't have stomachs. According to Odo, when he tried it was messy.Icecreamdif 22:24, September 14, 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but that's because he was rather inexperienced at shapeshifting, and didn't do a perfect imitation of a humanoid; he didn't have a stomach. However, the Founders, who impersonate humanoids so well that even tricorders can't tell the difference, would most definitely have everything, including a stomach, simulated fully. Thus they would be able to eat food and process it through their system quite normally. -Mdettweiler 23:19, September 14, 2009 (UTC)

Precisely. MaGnUs 01:03, September 15, 2009 (UTC)

Or, more likely, just store it in the "stomach" until it could safely be released in privacy - they couldn't really digest it, since they don't get anything out of it. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.151.189.19 (talk • contribs) .

Actually, though, keep in mind that surely if the changeling's humanoid body is so good an impersonation to fool even a tricorder, then surely it can 'fool' food. After all, in order to look like a real humanoid to a tricorder, the impersonation would have to actually be carrying on all the normal operations of a humanoid body in full motion, simulated down to the molecular level. That would include food processing; nutrients would simply be distributed throughout the simulated blood and used by the simulated organs, until the changeling needs to regenerate and thus would have to dump everything out. -Mdettweiler 21:52, September 15, 2009 (UTC)