system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek] There were a bunch of times Odo would turn into an Eagle and fly somewhere. But how could a 200lb bird possibly fly? Can he actually change his weight when he shapeshifts?
gpt
Odo has been used to compress metals and bend bulkheads by his mass and yet Sisko carried him around for hours as a satchel on Earth, smugglers unknowingly received him as a bag of latinum and Rom even carried him around on a drinks tray as a martini glass.

Founders must have the ability to alter mass on the fly on a very fine scale without even realising it. If that's the case it's little wonder everyone wants to put Odo in a jar and study him.

If it wasn't for the need to use him as a vector for genocide Section 31 might have disappeared him to a lab for the good of the federations future technological superiority.