Comment on Happy Birthday Terry Farrell
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year agoTrills didn’t originally have spots either
Are Trills mentioned prior to DS9?
Comment on Happy Birthday Terry Farrell
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year agoTrills didn’t originally have spots either
Are Trills mentioned prior to DS9?
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re in a TNG episode. The symbiote controls the host in that episode too. It isn’t a blending.
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year 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.
thessnake03@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Didn’t they reveal the training was bs and anothrr way for the symbiotes to exert control? Ezri had no training and did just fine.
theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 year ago
The Host - the one where Riker ends up hosting the symbiont.