Ok haven’t watched the latest Picard episode again yet. It may or may not have dropped this morning already (UK) but I will watch it later.

I just reread various wiki pages to see if my understanding of the Changelings and the motivation for the Dominion/the War was right. I’m coming to the end of season 3 of DS9 so I haven’t personally seen a lot yet. I don’t like to be wrong but I think I have it right (hope so or this will be embarrassing).

The Changelings want control (literally dominate hence dominion). They have “the great link” which makes for a sort of “hive mind” though they have individuality.

Last week we learned that Picard’s body was kidnapped and my mind instantly went to Borg – collective, and then went hmm control? Picard as a Borg wasn’t the usual drone. So what if the changelings could use that?

Imagine if they made like a ‘Borg collective’ out of the Alpha Quadrant. They would need to lead it like a Queen (or like Locutus) and not be subject to it. But that would sure be one way to dominate/control everyone. We know from Voyager how Seven prized efficiency and order, which is what the changelings like – order to totalitarianism. So it seems to match.

I can’t work out what the hell Jack Crusher has to do with it. From last episode where Vadic captured Riker, it seemed the priority was still getting hold of Jack. Why? Because he was the child of a ex-Borg?

Now if they had been hunting Soji that would have made more sense to me. The origins of the Borg are vague. They were once just bio life forms and at some point evolved. But I have a pet theory that they found the planet Soji made a portal to (to the sentient killer robots) and got infected by the machinery. It is this tech that drives the need to assimilate as you know side nod to Stargate replicators bwahaha. But seriously it makes as much sense as anything. Machinery can only replicate, not reproduce in the usual kind of way, so to ensure its own survival constantly devouring what it comes across to make more of itself, does make a certain primal sense. Wanting Soji to tell them the location of the robot planet so the changelings could understand how the Borg were created, and thus make their own version of the collective to control the solids, has a certain logic to it. But no they are hunting Jack Crusher and I don’t know why.

Anyway this is my current theory. It will probably be ruined this evening but no matter. I like it.