#trill

[hollis-art]

who are you really, when you've lived nine different lives?

[leaky-port-nacelle]

Ezri eventually dies, as most people do

The Dax symbiont is passed to the next host

Dax pays a visit to their old friend, the renowned author, Jake Sisko

"Dax, what are you doing here?"

"the last host of mine to not know your father was Joran. And, well, no one wants a repeat of that. I think Siskos may be my good luck charm"

we cut to a montage wherein the first thing Dax does in every lifetime once left to their own devices is to go find Benjamin's closest living descendent. Sometimes they become friends. Sometimes, best friends. Once, they even married, but that's a story for another time. Sometimes, they have a dinner, check in, then go their separate ways.

But as long as every Dax has a Sisko, nothing like Joran ever happens again.

And every Sisko knows, once in a generation, right when they need it the most, to expect a knock at the door. Every Sisko knows to look forward to their next visit from an old friend, from The Old Man.

[shaydh]

the song of slaanesh 🤘

[not-a-spy-garak]

I fear this needed its own post. Three punks and plain, simple Garak (me).

@garak-pussy-indulgence so glad I got to meet you!!!

[lakariancityamusementcenteradult]

It's cool that for a Trill to receive a symbiont they need to undergo a surgical procedure. Like there's something in Trill anatomy that allows the worm to survive in their tummies (and they become intertwined in a way that kills the host when it's removed) and store the memories of the host as well as pass those memories on to future hosts, but it seems to not be some symbiosis that evolved naturally. It must have been discovered at some point by the Trill (presumably?? All the worms can do is swim around right)

The procedure would probably have been pretty dangerous before the development of sophisticated medicine. Maybe it was only discovered after Trill medical technology had reached a certain advancement where you could slice someone open without having them bleed to death or die of infection. Or maybe Trills just aren't suspectable to those things in the same way humans are.

And there's also some kind of cultural/spiritual element to it because of the way they can do rituals to summon up past hosts. I wonder if the incantations an stuff (which aren't translated by the UT) are technically necessary or if it's more a traditional practice and there's some other physical thing going on?

[theundergod]

#TheUnderGod x FonzFutura.com

[writergeekrhw]

If Jadzia had lived, and she got pregnant with Worf like she wanted, was there any discussion of how the worm & fetus would share her abdomen?

Not while I was there. Honestly, in Star Trek, the practicalities of interspecies reproduction weren't ever really something we worried about. How does a Cardassian/Bajoran pregnancy work? I'm not even sure Cardassians are mammals. Human/Vulcan? They don't even have compatible blood types. But it works because... ummm... Progenitors! Similarly, if a joined Trill can get pregnant (and I don't think we ever said either way, but maybe I'm wrong) then a hybrid pregnancy should be fine. Do Trills even carry fetuses to viability? Maybe they're marsupials? Progenitors!

[skrankku]

More dumb joke comics about Jadzia the marsupial.