View Single Post Old July 7 2009, 09:21 PM   #19 Re: Where do
Trill symbionts come from?  An interesting theory; it explains
the original Trill from TNG very nicely. I'd make them
benevolent after ancient history was over, though, to mesh with
DS9. TNG's Trill can be the exception, or be a very ancient
Trill. I'm happy with that, too. Odan could simply have been an
old and obnoxious specimen who took no pity on its hosts - never
bothering to use their names as part of its own, even.  Possibly
such old geezers are in control of the Trill society, though,
explaining the weird dark secrets they seemingly unnecessarily
protect.  How do we know that the Trill creature's minds don't
infect and integrate themselves into the humanoid's minds in the
same way that a computer virus or malware installs itself on a
hard drive? We could ask a host who has been liberated of his or
her Trill. But Jadzia (in "Invasive Procedures") was only
liberated of Dax for a brief moment, and was still suffering
from post-surgery confusio