The swords (27 in. long) are made of hard rubber with serrated blades painted to look like distressed metal with black handles wrapped in black paracord. The swords were based on a preexisting martial arts sword Jeff purchased that had interlocked the twin blades into one so when they changed them to rubber and repainted them, they decided to keep that element of the sword but used a hidden magnet to attach them together.
Used by the Changelings in their corridor swordfight with Raffi on the Titan in the Star Trek: Picard season three episode #308 “Surrender,” which aired the week of April 6, 2023. The Changelings were shapeshifting lifeforms (in their natural state a liquid) native to the Gamma Quadrant of the Milky Way Galaxy. They were the creators and rulers of the Dominion, whose subject races knew them as the semi-mythical Founders. Most Changelings existed as an amalgamated mass known as the Great Link. During the Dominion War, Section 31 conducted secret experiments on Changeling prisoners. Termed Project Proteus, these torturous procedures were designed to create better infiltrators. One of the test subjects, later called Vadic, escaped and killed the lead scientist before freeing her fellow prisoners. Vadic captained a powerful warship called the Shrike and was in league with the Borg Queen. The swords (27 in. long) are made of hard rubber with serrated blades painted to look like distressed metal with black handles wrapped in black paracord. The swords were based on a preexisting martial arts sword Jeff purchased that had interlocked the twin blades into one so when they changed them to rubber and repainted them, they decided to keep that element of the sword but used a hidden magnet to attach them together.
