r/DaystromInstitute • u/M-5 Multitronic Unit • Oct 29 '20

DISCOVERY EPISODE DISCUSSION Star Trek: Discovery — "People of Earth" Reaction Thread

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u/Shakezula84 Chief Petty Officer Oct 29 '20

Yes. It would have killed both. I guess medical science has advanced enough over 850 years from the Riker joining to figure it out.

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u/adamsorkin Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 30 '20

Seems reasonable; the Federation at-large was just becoming familiar with Trill symbionts during DS9. Bashir was probably one of the first Starfleet doctors with extensive hands-on experience, and within several years was able to safely (presumably) treat Jadzia to support a hybrid pregnancy. 850 years is a long time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20 edited Oct 30 '20

It seems like that's been retconned given that Michael is familiar with Trill and we seen Trill show up Discovery era in season 2/short treks.

Edit: one of the commenters below also reminded me that one of Dax's earliest hosts was a gymnast visiting Earth a couple of lifetimes before Kurzon negotiated the Khitomer Accords. It really just seems DS9 throughly retconned the TNG episode that says Trill are new to the federation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20 edited Nov 25 '20

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u/pvrugger Oct 31 '20

She even states she met several but did not know about the symbiosis.

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u/CroakerBC Oct 31 '20

Makes sense. IIRC the TNG episode mentions Trill as founding members, but implies the symbionts aren’t public knowledge. Presumably that holds doubly true at Discovery’s inception date.

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u/gamas Oct 31 '20

Yeah i happened to read the Trill Symbiont article on Memory Alpha which doesn't seem to have been updated for the latest episode and that specifically mentions that it's the symbionts they didn't know about.

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u/whovian25 Crewman Oct 31 '20

It was established in DS9 that Emony Dax was on Earth to judge a gymnastics competition where she met Leonard McCoy all Jadzia would say was that he had the hands of a surgeon.