Timeline for Why are Trill symbionts so rare?
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| Mar 24, 2019 at 12:01 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @ThaddeusHowze I think what user366 was getting at is, is this canonically accepted or canonically retconned? Without the "discrepancy" having ever been addressed in-universe, I don't think there's a way to actually know for certain. For what it's worth, in the absence of any such clarification I'm happy to agree that we ought to lean on the side of canonical acceptance (even though we never saw species #1 again). But this is clearly not always so; consider as another example silly things like O'Brien's rank; we are, canonically, supposed to ignore the discrepancy. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 10:44 | comment | added | user45485 | Slight addition to the symbiont lifespan. In Children of Time (s5e22) Dax is shown to have survived over 200 years after being transported back in time. That would give the Dax symbiont an age of at least 500 years. (At least because at one point Jadzia Dax tells a Jem'Hadar "I stopped counting at 300." about her age. | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 4:23 | comment | added | ruakh | I think your third paragraph has it backward; the reason for the strict screening process is that there are few available symbionts, not vice versa. | |
| Jul 17, 2012 at 4:47 | comment | added | Thaddeus Howze | Been busy all day. I don't need anything but the canon of the existence of two DIFFERENT Trill with two different requirements for existence. The first could not be transported, the second could. Both were called Trill and just like on Earth where there were more than one hominid species, there could have been more than one host species for the Trill. The shows themselves are the canon for the event. | |
| Jul 16, 2012 at 17:04 | comment | added | user366 | Do you have any source that supports the two species hypothesis? | |
| May 12, 2012 at 17:37 | comment | added | RCIX | so THAT's how they explained away the first appearance of trills... | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 5:12 | history | edited | Kevin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2011 at 2:11 | history | answered | Thaddeus Howze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |