Star Trek: Explaining The Trill Symbionts
Star Trek has given fans of the science fiction genre a host of different alien species over the years, a list that keeps growing with each new addition into the franchise. There are the well-known classics such as the Vulcans, stoic, logic-based beacons of civilization, as well as lesser-known entities that appear fleetingly, like the Andorians. One species that falls right in the middle is the Trill and the Symbionts that reside within them.
The Trill, like many species within the Star Trek universe, are humanoid in appearance, with two rows of dark blue spots that go down the entirety of their body. Interestingly, when the Trill first appeared in a Next Generation episode, their appearance was different, with a defined v-shaped forehead ridge (they did love their forehead prosthetics), changing to the blue-spotted variation during Deep Space 9. They did this because Paramount was concerned about obscuring Terry Farrell’s face (who played one of the main Trill characters) after spending “a long time seeking a beautiful actress.”
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Despite their visual change, the symbiotic relationship introduced in Next Generation stayed the same, with a select few Trill having their bodies and personalities joined with a sentient symbiotic organism aptly called a Symbiont, essentially forming a new being who was a combination of the two. Their names reflect this join, the first name being the Trill’s birth name, the second being the Symbiont’s. For example, take Jadzia Dax, theheavily political Deep Space 9 Trill character mentioned above. Jadzia was the host body’s name, Dax was the centuries-old Symbiont.
While often seen as a parasitic relationship from outsiders, the joining of
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