I always thought we really missed out on a chance for there to be a more intense overwriting of Ezra with Jadzia, or one of the other hosts. She seemed so meek! Give me a St. Alia situation, where the current host can't stand against the memories of previous ones, and make it more compelling than taboos and stuff!
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Salamendacious@lemmy.world 7 months agoIt’s television. Things can happen. Trills didn’t originally have spots either. They just changed it.
flicker@kbin.social 7 months ago
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Are Trills mentioned prior to DS9?
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’re in a TNG episode. The symbiote controls the host in that episode too. It isn’t a blending.
gregorum@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Well, they call it a blending of the minds in that TNG episode (“The Host”), but once Riker takes on the symbiote, he doesn’t retain much of himself at all. He’s all Odan (the Trill character).
The drill were obviously in a prototype stage for that episode, as they appeared without spots, and with forehead ridges instead.
milkisklim@lemm.ee 7 months ago
This is probably why Trill have to undergo years of training before joining, to keep their personalities more merged in.
It could also be that Dax prefers to be more passive in its relationship with its host compared to Odan. This makes sense because if the point of Joining is to gain new experiences, overpowering the host won’t let the symbiote learn.
theinspectorst@kbin.social 7 months ago
The Host - the one where Riker ends up hosting the symbiont.