Female Shapeshifter

The Female Shapeshifter is a fictional character in the universe, one of a race of shapeshifting aliens. She is played by American actress Salome Jens.

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Fictional character - Actress - Salome Jens

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The shapeshifters, also known as the Founders of the Dominion, live in a gelatinous state normally on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant of the Milky Way Galaxy. They are able to take the shape of almost any physical object when they so desire, and are basically undetectable when doing so (although if a piece of a shapeshifter is separated from the whole, it will revert to its normal state).

Related Topics:
Dominion - Gamma Quadrant - Milky Way Galaxy

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The Female Shapeshifter is the designation for the specific Founder who served as the leader of the Dominion during the Dominion War against the Federation-Klingon-Romulan alliance in the Alpha Quadrant. She was characterized by ruthless efficiency and a distrust for every "solid," even the ones who headed up the races to which the Dominion was allied during the war. She would order the death of any subordinate without a moment's hesitation.

Related Topics:
Federation - Klingon - Romulan - Alpha Quadrant

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During the Dominion War she contracted a deadly disease that altered her solid appearance and caused her to become weak. Later it was learned that the illness had been developed by Starfleet's mysterious intelligence agency Section 31 in order to destroy the Founders and help to defeat the Dominion.

Related Topics:
Dominion War - Starfleet - Section 31

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Odo, another shapeshifter who had been sent into the Alpha Quadrant and who served as Security Chief on the Federation space station Deep Space Nine, was the first to contract the disease, and was also responsible for curing the Female Shapeshifter at the close of the Dominion War. He offered to cure the entire race if the Female Shapeshifter would call off the war, which the Dominion was losing anyway as a result of the Cardassian uprising and the infiltration of the Dominion headquarters by Colonel Kira, Odo, and Garak. She agreed, offering no resistance, and signed armistice papers on board Deep Space Nine shortly thereafter, thus ending the greatest war in Federation history.

Related Topics:
Odo - Deep Space Nine - Cardassian - Kira - Garak

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She is currently serving time in a Federation prison, for war crimes committed on her orders during the Dominion War.

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