Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24830713-20141221044516/@comment-26010249-20141221051940

Yes, as I mentioned, you got it right. Aliens being locked might have been 1 of the failsafe to prevent it from being misused. Azmuth added a lot of fail-safe to the omnitrix because he learned his lesson after Ascalon, his creation, was misused.