Of course I know what a symbiote is, I've seen all of Deep Space 9. Had a trill for a main character.
With all that said we both know what they were trying to do.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
The line was pretty vague. Jadzia would invoke "Curzon" pretty often, and that episode where the symbiot was stolen and the pirate leader treated Sisko like an old friend sure looked like the memories carry over.
On the other hand, Ezri in late DS9 established the hosts value their individual uniqueness. She actually bristled at the notion she was Jadzia, if people treated her like that.
If Trills are called "They" now, as if an amalagam instead of an individual, that would be a bit of a retcon on the established lore.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
Now see that is an intriguing theory. We have never seen the portal take human form, but who knows what could happen in the 31st century? Or hell it could have had the ability all along but found no need for it in past encounters with Starfleet.
So why be so hostile? The portal never appeared with a human avatar that I recall, right? So it was not super obvious.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.