Anonymous asked:

In regards to your post about Odo, what about Thrax? He was the chief of security before Odo, they knew each other]. They even kept in touch, he was probably Odo's informant from "Improbable Cause".

tinsnip answered:

Do you know, for some reason I thought he was dead?

What did happen to him, anyway? I don’t get the impression one just walks away from a job as head of security on Terok Nor… unless he was, perhpas, promoted upwards?

[old-type-40]

I took a look at Memory Alpha and Ron Moore said that the staff had discussed the possibility that Thrax was Odo’s mysterious informant.  He also brought up the whole Elmo Dukat thing again.  Here’s the relevant section from his AOL chat:

<<Do you think we'll ever learn who Odo's mysterious Cardassian 
informant in "Improbable Cause" was?  Was it, by any chance, Thrax?  
After all, he did say he'd changed hisappearance since the last time 
Odo had seen him.>>

This was discussed by the staff and I don't know if we'll revisit this
character or not -- if we do, the Thrax angle is definitely a possibility.

<<Also, do you think we'll ever learn Gul Dukat's first name?>>

I thought it was Elmo.

BTW, I wonder if the writers were also borrowing from the Watergate scandal in regards to having a mysterious informant.  The writers did plan to use Watergate as the basis for In the Pale Moonlight.   The story line was that Jake uncovers something regarding the war that his father is trying to keep covered up.  But then they realized that this would have led to problems given the strong ties between the two of them.  And maybe this is why Moore had Adama father and son at odds with each other when he created the revised Battlestar Galactica.  Having them in conflict certainly did open up more story lines.