Maybe you should write something about the Ocampa species...
Trill ideas
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I have an entire crew that's been brewing in my head for a few years. The pilot is an Ocampa from Suspiria's Array, and the chief engineer is a Trill with some truly eccentric past hosts.
A Trill and an Ocampa in one crew... That would be interesting.
It will get very interesting.
I wonder how the symbionts reproduce.
At an earlier stage in their life cycle. When they can no longer do so, that's when they're implanted. Though I wonder what a young impulsive, untried new symbiont in a mature (but not necessarily old) staid first host would be like.
I wonder if there wouldn't be some liberal groups that would be demanding that every Trill who wants a symbiont should have a symbiont as a right and would be pushing for accelerated means of symbiont reproduction until the number of symbionts equals the number of Trills who want one.
Or symbionts demanding more pools and environmental protections for same.
It just occurs to me that, as there will be some Trill who would not want to be Joined, so there are likely to be some symbionts who feel the same.
We are given some indication of what the hosts go through prior to Joining but what about the symbionts? Do they experience training before Joining? Do they get a choice about what they want to do? Indeed, do they get to choose their next host? Are there some symbionts who are not suitable for Joining?
As for how symbiosis got started: human beings are a mass of symbiotic relations from the mitochrondria in our cells to our "gut flora". Some of those symbiotic relations go back to the very earliest humanoids and their ancestors. I doubt that the Trill woke up one day and "wouldn't it be a good idea if..?". It would have been an accidental meeting originally, that developed in complexity over a very long period of time - perhaps the "original" symbionts were very small and easily accommodated in the natural spaces in the host body.
We are given some indication of what the hosts go through prior to Joining but what about the symbionts? Do they experience training before Joining? Do they get a choice about what they want to do? Indeed, do they get to choose their next host? Are there some symbionts who are not suitable for Joining?
As for how symbiosis got started: human beings are a mass of symbiotic relations from the mitochrondria in our cells to our "gut flora". Some of those symbiotic relations go back to the very earliest humanoids and their ancestors. I doubt that the Trill woke up one day and "wouldn't it be a good idea if..?". It would have been an accidental meeting originally, that developed in complexity over a very long period of time - perhaps the "original" symbionts were very small and easily accommodated in the natural spaces in the host body.
Are hosts of a particular career field ever favored for symbionts who have had hosts of a similar vocation before? Or is it avoided to give hosts more well-rounded experiences overall?
The idea behind forbidding reassociaton was that symbionts should experience new things. In that case, it would seem unlikely that symbionts would want to be joined with hosts who have similar backgrounds to previous hosts. On the other hand, we do see that a host can request a particular symbiont and it is up to the symbiont to accept or reject the proposal (citation needed: this wasn't in the episode I thought it was!). So a host could request a symbiont because the symbiont has experience in the host's field but one would expect the symbiont to reject such a pairing.
I wonder if a symbiont could block the host's personality completely without the host knowing, like a split personality (like in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Deadly Double")
Probably in the Caves of Mak'ala.
I wonder if they pass on their knowledge to their children - this would make the importance of hosts all the greater.
Is it possible to have two symbionts in a single host?
Sounds to me like McCoy with Spock's katra in his head. Increasingly painful and leading to madness.
Even worse if the two can't stand each other.
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