TRILL: Cultural Index
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- A person owes who they are to a collection of memories and experiences. So what happens when those memories get extended and added to from 5,6,7 new people? That person is still you aren't they? Just you plus... more?
Questions like this are why Trill Initiates undergo three years of training before getting a Symbiont.
So yeah, We're looking at the Trill, joined or not.
This is the Cultural Index a series aimed at exploring various Science-Fiction species.
For outsiders to a series to get to know the basics and maybe even hardened Sci-fi nuts might discover something new.
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In an emergency, a Trill can be joined with a symbiote without going through the initiate training program. This was the case with Ezri Tigan who was Joined with Dax in order to save its life after the violent death of Jadzia left the Dax symbiote critically wounded. Ezri was simply the only Trill available at the time and to them, ALL other priorities are secondary to the survival of the symbiote. Besides Ezri Dax was the CUTEST officer in Starfleet. Cuteness always gets a pass.😁
I kinda wish they'd had more time to explore that in the show than they did, but they only had one season and a massive war arc to wrap up, so I understand why "fleshing out what it must be like for a Trill who'd never wanted to be joined suddenly being joined" was set aside.
Not to mention that, I think it's all but explicit that the Dax symbiont is like a rock star amongst symbiotes; its the one every Initiate probably hopes they'd get, the way probably most Starfleet cadets have their fingers crossed for a posting to the Enterprise. I mean, if you were in Ezri's shoes, would YOU want to be the one who let arguably the most famous Trill *ever* die?
@@arklestudios they kinda did because Ezri Dax was constantly being overcome by Jadzia Dax's personality Ezri Tigan never would've been attracted to a man like Worf, but Ezri Dax slept with him.
they also can be joined with a human as in the case of Commander Riker.
@@ejungleska True, but the bond was a temporary stopgap measure and that Symbiote wasn't as severely wounded as Dax.
I think it would’ve been cool if they Dax had to join with Benjamin Cisco
Hold up, we want to hear about their transportation system.
I know, right!?
My thoughts exactly!
It's so funny these things are just Evil Symbiots but call themselves 'Symbiotic' even though they do not fullfill any Requirement of that Description, and most Fans don't even seem to have noticed.
As we saw in the First Trill of 'The Next Generation', these are just Goa'uld (for those who know them...):
They care nothing about the Hosts, whose personality gets surpressed completly and whose Live means nothing. They are not at all distressed when the Body dies and clearly Favor one life over another. One Race over another. It's all very obvious. This is not what Symbiotic means, for crying out loud!
Neither Star Trek Characters nor Fanbase seems to have noticed this?! Wow.
Slevin Channel they give knowledge and experience to the hosts, giving the Trill guidance and an overall better life.
@@slevinchannel7589 symbiotic simply refers to the higher order of category. In that that category has to be broken down into more categories. symbiotic relationships come in the form of parasitic, commensal, and mutual. No one is saying which these symbionts are. simply that the trill and the slugs have a biological relationship
They explained the ridges in one of the novels quite simply. There was a Trill colony that got hit by a mutated strain of the Klingon Augment virus thanks to a careless joined tourist.
That doesn't seem likely as a good explanation after all the Klingons had the Ridges before the augment plague and as a result lost them so how would Trail receive ridges as a result from getting the augment plague?
@@donaldnevgonhapniv3084 I think it's the other way around dude. The trill used to have ridges but the virus took them away.
A warlord Trill would be an interesting antagonist for the Federation.
a trill that had been previously joined to a Klingon, Vulcan, Andorian/Aenar and Betazoid hosts over a number of centuries would be a very formidable and cunning antagonist to be sure... while this would most likely be a case of mad experimentation with possibly unstable emotional results held in check by the Vulcan sense of order and logic (if not diminished too much by the other personalities) the strengths and abilities would be unusually pronounced when used in concert... imagine the possibility of Khan being a Trill Host or a Trill Augment hybrid... scary
Or a Trill who's been with Section 31 through various hosts.
Wonder what the Trill are like in the mirror universe?
Jonathan Garrad in the mirror universe they aren’t called Trill they are called Goa'uld
how about a symbiot who successfully attaches to a Klingon?
I wish you had mentioned that in an extreme emergency a symbiot can be joined to a non trill, like that time Riker took on a symbiont from a ambassador who had been injured and dating the doctor or something, but as they said in the episode the joining to a non trill can not be maintained for long and is mostly just a stop gap measure to keep the symbiont alive
That arc was done before the species was redesigned, I'm not sure how much faith we can put in it.
I just assume the TNG Trills are a different species from the DS9 Trills just happen to have symbionts and and the name Trills. LOL. Gotty find a way to fit all the F ups they do to continuity and the time line.
Yea, I think he is using sources from DS9 and media after that show was launched, rather than TNG. Sort of like how the Ferengi went through a change from being these limited, simian-like creatures at the begin of TNG to the modern sophisticated ( yet still greedy) humanoids in the later half of TNG and DS9.
I find it weird when Star Trek makes obvious and avoidable inconsistencies, but the TNG Trill is definitely an interesting point to bring up and tbh it's quite lame that this guy left it out of the video -either that or this is more of a copy-and-paste job and the narrator is actually unaware.
We do all know this is actually a video about a make-believe species, you know? Would have been the most interesting aspect of the video without taking anything away from it.
That's with the forehead ridges Trill, not the spotted version. The species was redesigned in DS9, and contradicts the portrayal of the original on screen version.
I’d love to see a Trill meet with a Goa’uld!
“You see this, initiates? This is Exactly why we have such strict standards!”
I believe the downfall of the Goa’uld was the use or sarcophagus technology. Using it to avoid or even return from death eroded the “humanity” of both host and parasite. It’s why the Tok’ra split off and refused to use sarcophagus technology.
*Ra* But when you have centuries, nay, eons, to learn tactics, strategy, and real politik, why would you not use it?
@@Deridus because it makes you go insane.
I think Trill would be more like Tok'ra
@@Deridus B/C it messes with your head.
So the Symbiot is like a more beneficial version of the Gua'uld
Similar to the Tok'ra.
@@freezetasticvoyage19 same species different habits.
Although the Goauld does give you some nice physical perks and potentially a lot of knowledge from the genetic memory.
But then again on the other hand I would guess that the transfer of skills and knowledge is a little bit smoother for the Trill seeing as the Goauld and it's host still are distinct personalities.
Which of course can also be seen as an advantage since your personality remains largely unaltered but can also lead to some problems since the host and the Goauld can disagree.
And finally there is also the problem that if they disagree the Goauld usually does have the last word in the actions taken which since most of them are kind of a over-the-top cliche bad guys more often than not mean that your personality might be unchanged, but suppressed entirely.
Also I think the intelligence boost might be bigger for a Goauld but I'm not certain about that.
The are similar in many forms but they have major differences like the trill symbiots don't take control of the host but guauld are usually in control. Plus trill almost become one being while the quauld are mostly (in the case of the good ones) two different beings
@@agentwisconsin3184 they are separate even if the Goauld is let's say a system Lord the hosts personality just has no control over the body at all.
My favorite Trill is the rapper known as "Trill Bill" he's been known and verified to have kept it 100% Trill since his first host six cycles ago. His latest mix holo-tape "Cold Blooded Trilla" went Gold Pressed Latinum for 12 weeks straight. Easily beating his old record from his last holo-tape "To Pimp a Symbiote". They say his last single has been so popular that it's made it into the Delta Quadrant.
we are the borg, lower your shields and surrender your ships, we will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own, your culture will adapt to service us... resistance is futile
If I ever deigned to get a full body tattoo, it'd have to be Trill spots
I actually have thought about it bc I think it looks so pretty
my boyfriend and I had a fun thought of naming our kids trill like names tattooing spots on our bodies and pretending to be trill as our kids grew up
@@angelkitty41 I think as long as u dont tattoo the kids that's pretty awesome😋
@@beberivera7011 Haha of course we weren't going to tattoo the kids. Just ourselves, really confuse them. it was an amusing thought
@@angelkitty41 it would be fun!
Aw, and here I thought we were FINALLY going to get a serious discussion of public transport systems in scifi races. :) Ooh, I know - do Pierson's Puppeteers. You could cover the stepping disk network while you're at it.
That's an excellent recommendation. There is quite a bit of info written on the Puppeteers.
Larry Niven did a lot of cool aliens that weren’t simply human with fancy head gear.
In fact I’m pretty sure the only time he had more than one species with similar physiology they were typically distant relatives.
Pierson'Puppeteers I would love to see something about them as well as Pak.
I had the hardest crush on Ezri Dax.. so damn adorable.
I still do. Even now, she's still super cute.
We all did.
I preferred Jadzia, way hotter, and better character. I found Ezri completely forgettable.
Yeah same, she's probably why I like girls with short hair XD
Crush for adorable, yes. But as the character in DS9, not so much. It took a while before she got the episodes where she got the change to be a own character, instead of not-Jadzia.
I still remember watching the episode of TNG with Odan after watching most of DS9, and being surprised by the fact that Dr. Crusher was unaware of symbiotes, among the Trill, as if they were only rarely off-world, and never got into accidents. It was like Star Wars, and no one knows what a Tusken or Jawa look like, even though both are killed regularly, and no one rips stuff off, and takes a look?
I like the Trill, as a Star Trek species. I'd want to play one in an RPG, and they don't even have bizarre superpowers, like telepathy, or mega-strength; just significant skill boosts.
Re-association happened with Ezri. Clearly, for practical reasons regarding Dax's experiences in the Dominion War.
I always assumed that there was some sort of special dispensation granted by the Symbiosis Commission, due to the irregular nature of Ezri's joining, where she had no time to prepare.
Yeah I think they realized holding Ezri to the same standards as the people who wanted this when she was forced into it.
+The Bronze Age of DC Comics
Maybe, but they also allowed Jadzia to get herself stationed with Ben, even though 90% of the reasoning was that Dax had, and would re-engage with Ben.
Tuning3434 they were just friends, nothing more
@@edsr164 you can't tell me that Chad Sisko and Main Girl Dax didn't at least drunkenly mess around with each other at least once
That one Trill from TNG actually had an alien grandfather who strongly influenced his appearance. Because of the emergency situation they had to transfer the symbiot to his cousin who was likewise of alien descent.
Where do you get this? What is your Source material?
@@donaldnevgonhapniv3084 Well, either way, that could absolutely make sense as to why the two TNG Trill we see have different facial features. 🤔 It's my head-canon now until something else replaces it, lol.
Something I've always wondered - does a Symbiot have a personality of its own, or is it simply a 'blank canvas' on which the personalities of its successive hosts are painted? i.e. Does the personality of a Symbiot's first host change (and change differently from other joined Trill)?
good question... maybe, before joining, the "shrimp" is just a dumb animal
That would be an interesting story...the life of an unjoined Trill symbiot leading up to their joining to their first host, and then how their life changes now that they have eyes and ears and such.
Holy cow... I just realized SG1 is set in a dark mirror universe!
Votes Below!
I want an Elcor Plushie!
I want an Ood Doll!
After the Odd Ood please do a video on the Zentradi from SDF Macross please.
Ood please.
I like Mass Effect, but I love Doctor Who. My vote obviously goes to the Ood, but I don't mind if the Elcor get chosen instead.
When I was growing up I caught a fair amount of DS9 (not really in order, just stray episodes) and I always loved when I caught an episode with Ezri because I found her really cute and sweet but her struggles with previous lives’ memories was really interesting to me.
To be honest She’s probably the reason I have a thing for girls with short hair now as an adult.
Very Similar to the Tok'ra, though with Tok'ra you have two minds but the host can access past experience of the symbiote. The Tok'ra could take control of host body if wanted but its frowned upon by the Tok'ra. When i first saw the Trill i thought of stargate when i saw dax the first time.
The Ood, absolutely.
I like the trills. They put perspective on consciousness. They can transfer one host's memories into another host by implanting symbiots but they can't transfer consciousness. Each host is different. They only inherit the memories.
loved the video, and i also love the Ood
The trill are like the nice version of the Goa'uld from Star Gate.
Well more like the To'Kra.
still parasites, still don't shove them up your bum
When the Trill first appeared on ST:TNG it caused a firestorm on what passed for the Internet in those days. Viewers complained that the replacement host seemed slow, making it seem that they were being used more as slaves than as a full partner. You can see the result of that anger on ST:DS9 with extensive story lines of potential hosts being intelligent beings who were trained and tested in a competitive process.
"What passed for the Internet." You mean the Internet?
@@KatriceMetaluna Well there was no Facebook & I think even Web pages were in their infancy. I don't remember exactly but I think it was Usenet newsgroups.
@@marccolten9801 : Usenet seems likely. The internet had been around for a while, but the "world wide web" part of it didn't have client-side scripting (javascript was added in 94 as I recall), and all server-side scripting was in the form of Perl, or CGI programs (technically Perl was a CGI program too, but it was one that let you do scripting, so still somewhat different). If it wasn't Usenet, then it's more likely that it was a chat client than a web page.
That having been said, do bear in mind that Usenet (and Gopher, and BBSes, and several other things that escape me at the moment) are actually not part of the internet, and weren't at the time either. You can often get access to the through the internet now, but they are actually 100% separate networks, so you have to use protocol gateways to do so..
@@marccolten9801 It upsets me deeply that you consider Facebook to be "the internet"
@@PressA2Die Did I mention Facebook?
Rick, would you kindly do a series on individuals like Curzon?
Everything we know is via others with no direct stories.
Yet Curzon greatly affected Klingon culture & Starfleet.
Thank you.
T'Pau would be another.
One thing I've always wondered is if a Symbiote has it's own personality before the joining. We always hear about the personality traits of pasts hosts, but none of the Symbiote itself.
I think it was stated at some point in DS9 that the dax symbiote tended to be a bit headstrong, as far as how it influenced it's hosts. Also it was shown that the symbiote's have distinct brainwave patterns of their own. So it seems like they would have a personality of their own that could perhaps act as a low level filter through which the Host's own thoughts are affected. But since the symbiotes never actively take a position of dominance in their relationship, it's hard to tell.
Michael I have to disagree with you the very first tool we ever saw in Star Trek the Next Generation episode The Host the symbiant was dominant.
There's a brand of budgie food/seed called Trill, and every time I hear the word mentioned in relation to the Trek species, I can't help but be reminded of the bird seed. XD
I REMEMBER THAT! First food I got for the budgie I found outside and adopted (to me it sounds like krill - "small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea" - a shrimp... I call the Trill parasite "shrimp", too)
Fun fact, in the future the symbiots eventually evolve in to the illithid.
*shivers*
Writing prompt for a symbiont needing an emergency joining and joining with a timelord who regenerated to become compatible. Two set of lives.
11:12 - Thanks for implicitly reminding us that the Trill and symbiotes were retconned with the premiere of DS9.
Hey guys I found this cave slug. I think I’ll shove it in my abdomen
don't shove it up your bum - no matter what wish it promised it'll grant you, it's still a worm parasite!
Space slug is running a scam
9:00 I think it can not be stressed enough that this is to protect the individuellaty of the host.
Ood, is love. Ood is life.
Great video, would love to see you cover Betazoids next!
So when Riker (odan) and dr crusher got it on ... Was Riker conscious of it all watching behind his eyes? Cringing most likely, or amused of course. But would he retain the memories?
Good thou you did miss to mention that seperating a symbiot from it's host is fatal for the former host. Also that the symbiot can choose to take a backseat and allow the host to be dominant. Dax do this when inplanted to become Ezri Dax due to Ezri only accepting to become a temporary host but transfer delayed to long so their bond became permanent.
Can you do a review of the Orion Syndicate
He already did
Loving your in-depth videos.
It would have been an excellent premise for an episode if they called the existence of the Anulated in to question. It could have caused Dax to have an existential crisis about her own mortality and could have lent more weight to the host's passing.
What are the sources for this? Most of this is not in the TV series. Is it from beta canon books or from the MMORPG?
Is there a cultural index for humans? I've seen videos talking about the UFP and of alternate universe humans.... but I'd really like to see one that focuses on this universe's humans.
Good video! If you're willing can you please do the Ood.
This was awesome. Ever sense I saw DS9 I liked the idea of the Trill.
650 million Trill. You would think a well to do Federation member would have a higher population than that. Earths population was about 650 million in the 1730's
11:10 love the jedi mind trick at the end
@certifiably Ingame What class of ship from Star Trek Online is depicted in your video? Just curious!
Sounds like a supprisingly nice and wholesome mind flayer / ilithids. There is actual symbiosis of two creatures instead of one overrulin and changing the other. Also the memories of individual are preserved even after thousands of years in the great pond instead of getting assimilated into the great brain.
have a question the starships you show are from star trek online ? when yes i ask myself about the fact you have permission from cbs to sgow them in your video ? i hope so
How did the Trill symbiont affect the host digestive tract? Do the intestines just get pushed to the side? You'd think that would create some.. unpleasantness when it comes to completing the digestion process.
As Starfleet ships have bathrooms, we know faecal waste is not eliminated via the transporters.
Which Dax is your favorite? Ezri was cuter, but Jadzia was hotter, imo.
Absolutely right!!
Both Daxes were pretty darn cute.
Nailed it... Like I wish I could nail them.
Cuteness and Hotness are, of course, the Only criterion to assessing others.
Still waiting for Zerg. Zerg is the word
"bird, bird, bird, bird is the word" probably one of the strangest songs and music videos ever
bababa boo mau mau mau, baba boo mau mau mau
I was hoping you might mention the other types of trill seen in tng as well, still great video though
Thanks for this video. I thought I knew about the Trill, but I learned a lot here. I like them even more as a species now,!
Aliens in sci-fi often represent aspects of human nature. The Trill symbiosis link is much like reincarnation. We usually don't remember previous incarnations, to prevent them from interfering in the current one. That Trill symbiosis link shows how it could be, if we did.
There is also the theory that we could obtain memories from those of our ancestors. This was shown in that 'One step beyond' episode called 'Father image'. That Trill symbiosis link shows also how it could be.
Would love an episode about the oddball God like entities in TNG and other series!
There's one issue never addressed. Since Thrill and Sybiote are joined together nervous system. Would using Starfleet transport be problematic since breakdown both to molecular level scrabble molecules?
but there is a problem with the law of DS9. in the movie undiscovered country crewman DAX is on board the USS Enterprise during the camp Khitomer accords. in that time he had arms and legs not a parasite. and also for him to claim negotiation peace treaty not Canon something what DS9 got wrong
I'd love to see a Trill/Symbiont captain at some point.
In Star Trek Online, a later version of Dax becomes the captain of the Enterprise-J by the 26th century.
It seems to me that Trill society has two major classes: people who have symbionts and people who don't. The former, hosts, are rare and get to benefit from lifetimes of memories, making them societal elites. The latter, meanwhile, are common people who don't get any special powers. And there's a Commission that decides who is who. This sounds like a deeply unfair setup.
I mean, imagine being a normal Trill. There's a treatment out there that can give people incredible knowledge and experience AND make their minds functionally immortal. Only a select few are allowed to have the treatment and, once they get it, they naturally enter into the upper echelons of society. Every normal Trill has to compete with that. Want to be a senator? A pioneering scientist? A transcendent artist? Good luck without a symbiont. Many hosts have done all that and more in their past lives - they're a shoe-in for any job they want.
That sounds like an oppressive social order to me. I wonder how many Trill want a revolution. Maybe one day every Trill can get a symbiont of their own. Or, if that's impossible, maybe technology can replace the symbionts with a fairer system.
You're completely forgetting the fact that Symbiotes are sapient creatures too, and that for a lot of Trill, joining could actually be dangerous if they weren't vetted beforehand. An incapable Trill could have the joining destroy their own consciousness or even kill them, so the vetting is clearly an act that protects the Trill as well. And to suggest Trill society should violate the consent of a sapient creature, forcing it to join with any Trill all because it's more "fair" is super fucking gross; the idea that it's "oppression" that they do this is even more so. Also, in DS9 it's mentioned that only about a 1000 people volunteer for it, so it's quite clearly not something the vast majority of Trill even want.
@@cramer4506 "consent" lol, aren't they like: "hey, so, uhm, you're compatible, here's your worm, have fun, good luck!" (no "vetting" - well, sure, that's not the norm, but when they face the decision to save the shrimp, or the host, they'll save he shrimp... I'd want them both get saved, or neither of them... It just seems the worm is more important/valuable... maybe it is, it has multiple people stored in it... I don't know...)... I'm with Ethan, their society sucks (only positive is they're not overpopulated like humans)
@@ArinJager1 They save the Symbiote first because a bonded Trill dies when the Symbiote is removed.
And Ezri almost certainly wouldn't have had to take the Symbiote if she didn't want to, it's been shown a Symbiote can be temporarily put into other species without bonding, as the Symbiote Odan was with Riker in TNG.
which starship class you use for the shots in star trek online?
Caan you do Bajoran, if you haven't already?
Good news, he just released one a few days ago.
Why are the trill on DS9 so different from the trill on sttng ?.
On stng they had a cranial crest no spots. Then from DS9 on they had spots , no cranial bone structure.
I Noticed how Different the Trill were in regards to Odan In TNG and Dax in DS9.. With Odan the trill had Head ridges, both male and female.. And when DS9 came to be All trill had Spots... And seemed the "No reconnecting to previous lovers wasn't a rule in TNG also..
When first introduced in 1991, they joined one to a human body. Later in DS9, they added criteria of joining.
Hey @Certifiably Ingame
I´m *Trilled* you finally covered them.
0:28 Wait what?!?
Please do a deep dive into how the first Trill symbiot was joined to their first host for the first time.
2:40 back to their public transportation system again huh?
4:11 I always wondered about her former last name.
5:35 If the Trill over 20,000 years of age enter a kind of hive mind...that would help explain their technological development.
So why does Odan and the second host look different and was the symbiote a Trill secret until Odan showed up?
What a life it would be for each host and for the trill itself.
Great video! Like those informative pieces of ST lore! What class od ship is that in this video?
Interesting, i loved the character Dax and never imagined that she was a kind of worm. So they are the Goulds of StarTrek then.
not quite
I would like to see a video on about the huts cultrual index and the mon calamari (star wars)
Tobin Dax is also featured in the novel Star Trek Enterprise : Rise of the Federation - A Choice of Futures so we have a trill helping out early on it just wasnt know to starfleet what he was
Always prefered Ezri over Jadzia Dax.
I wonder if the general population appreciates being ruled by a symbiote? How well developed where the humans before the symbiotes where discovered? How long did it take before the symbiotes became common knowledge? I can imagine if it happened here it would have to be kept very secret for a very long time. Wait a minute.....
Thanks for the episode, I've often wondered about the culture and history of the Trill.
You know its weird how many Star Trek species are either named after their planet or vice versa
You mean like Earthmen?
@@marccolten9801 yes like that, though calling humans Terrans, and calling Earth Terra is a better example, (like in the Mirror Universe)
Well, a lot of sci-fi call humans "earthlings", so...
I vote Elcor
To me they are much more similar to a Time Lord society than the Goa'uld. At least as an experience. New body, but the same core, except the new body is a person that had a whole life before. Hmm. I'd just love a confrontation between the doctor and dax. What a treat would that be.
I do wish you could visit the surface of Trillar Prime and other world's in Star Trek Online but I'm guessing such cells would be resource intensive and therefore difficult to manage oh well at least we can see them in space.
This kind of sounds like the Avatar, the reincarnation, the past lives experiences, meeting with their past selves etc.
What's the background music? It's killing me it's so familiar
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood! That would be good.
Ezri is lethally cute... i e., to die for. lol
vote OOD
Interesting video and my vote ❎ goes to the Ood I was a Doctor Who fan before any other sci-fi and I've never ever encountered Mass Effect sorry 🙏🏻to the people who have
Hmm, no mention of the inconsistencies between the original TNG Trill as seen in "The Host" and the later DS9 Trill. In "The Host," the symbiont completely over-writes what little personality is present in the host, which is treated a mere disposable body. The host humanoids also feature forehead ridges and no spots, and there's no taboo (at least as far as Odan is concerned) in pursuing romantic relations with a past host's lover (ie Dr. Crusher). Literally all of these things were changed for DS9, which is fine, but we should at least acknowledge it and try to offer in-universe explanations.
Also, as seen in "The Host," a non-Trill humanoid can temporarily serve as a host body for a short period of time before rejection sets in.
I saw a couple of other replies that have at least a similar mindset to yours and I thought those were very good questions so I asked them to send me their Source material, because interesting questions are raised here if the trill host is sentient but if not sentient then would that not be considered a class Society forbidden by the Federation to be a member? Insofar as other species being able to host a trail I would assume they would have to be physically similar to the trill the more alike the list possibility of rejection
Would you consider doing an analysis/explanation of Zenna Henderson's Motivers?..or the few individuals in their history who can See. Henderson was the first published woman in science fiction to use her own name.
What happens when a borg simulates a trill that has been joined? Do they simulate the slug also or just the host? can they get all the memories of all the other lives? what do you think?
Presuming you mean 'assimilate', that's an interesting question - given that the host and symbiont are kind of already a mini hive mind, they'd probably just integrate both at the same time.
@@monkeymox2544 A lost opportunity for a good storyline.
Someone else asked essentially the same question someone to give essentially the same answer I would think the Borg can assimilate both and they probably do so simultaneously
It would have been nice if they at least explained the TNG Trill as I minority of the species. Plus it would have been great to follow up on that particular symbiote to explore the consequences of joining with a non- Trill
But what were they doing to discover the symbiosis?
This isn't the same thing but the trill talking back and forth with previous hosts reminded me of an article i read a couple months ago where scientists were talking about using modern ai for something useful in trying to decypher whale song and attempting to talk with them. Initially i was stoked, its the kind of thing i thought wed be doing by now, but then i remembered the fact that we did almost completely wipe them out to make oil for lamps (petroleum saved the whales). So it occurs that if they do communicate in a way wed recognize with stories of what happened to them in the past going down generation to generation something like an oral tradition, we might not want to talk to them. Or we might here about a probe that should be making its way back to earth in a few years and when it hears what we did, it starts carpet bombing our cities and such with accelerated asteroids. Or maybe i was just binge watching the expanse followed by star trek 4 who onows but im stuck inside with a busted ankle and just this side of losing my shit lol
MY OWN THOUGHTS OF IDEAS ABOUT THE ALIEN BEINGS KNOWN AS THE (TRILL)
Now I think that the (Trill) should be added into the next set of (STAR TREK) movies someday.
Would it be possible to do a video about what if a Trill was assimilated by the borg?
your planet info could be part of stellaris :D
Are the Trill Federation members? I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere.
Hey now why didn't Riker get a look in? He was a non Trill host to a Symbiont temporarily.
Everyone talks about the change in Trill appearance between their first appearance in TNG and DS9, yet nobody seems to comment on the sudden appearance of an ancient requirement to break off romantic relationships with previous hosts. It's almost as if that was just a plot point that the writers either used or ignored depending on what allowed them to make the social commentary they wanted.
Like a story? Make believe?
What is the maximum life span for a symbiot?
I wonder if there's a deep sense of social classism and discrimination towards Trill that never become joined or don't wish to join?
They vast majority don't join, and most probably don't even apply, what with the "only 1-in-1000 are compatible" line. With that, only a few hundred are joined a year, so if anything, it's like the most prestigious university on the planet, a coveted achievement that very few have the opportunity to obtain.
The unjoined wouldn't be the contemptible underclass, because they're the common norm; instead, the rare joined are the exhaulted elites. The only attitude shown in the show is resentment towards the chosen, not disdain for the common.
Alternatively, think of billionaires. They pretty much all are heavily involved in charity and philanthropic efforts, and I can't think of many non-billionaires that wouldn't jump at the chance to be given a billion dollars; and yet, many resent them for various reasons. Much of this I think is from the behaviour of the ungrateful brat children that make the gossip rags, but this isn't something that would apply to the Trill, as you can't be born with a symbiote.
very good video full of interesting facts
The trill are goauld. Change my mind.
Different spelling. Boom.
With that Zian'tara, about the previous hosts, that could probably also be done in the holodeck. But, probably would not be so accurate.