What do the Trill host bodies do when they don't have a worm inside them?There is a bit of a difference from the way Trills worked in their introduction in TNG’s “The Host” to the way they were done as regular characters in DS9, but it was made pretty clear the host and Trill bonded after a short time into a symbiotic relationship in which both would die if it was broken. Jadzia nearly died when her symbiont was forcibly removed in "Invasive Procedures" and the symbiont had to be transplanted into Ezris during "Image in the Sand" to keep it alive.
The Trill's weird slave like society always freaked me out.Creepy from a biological standpoint yes, and more evidence of Trek's hypocrisy when it comes to its own supposedly enlightened philosphy. The Federation upholds supposedly egalitarian principles above all else, but a prominent member race has a system in which elites are given the right to bond with a creature that can make them an undermensch elite class that rules the planet and gets all the best jobs while the rest get diddly squat. Come to find out later everyone can be bonded with a symbiotic, but the powers that be hide the fact because they are supposedly afraid of creating a black market for symbionts.
Take your pick which you think is worse: the system as perceived by everyone in the federation of the best and the brightest being bonded with symbionts in order to become an elite special class, or the truth in which the trill government is lying in order to maintain elite rule with the excuse of protecting the symbionts from being exploited.
Whichever one you think is worse, they are both fascist concepts. Fascist concepts Trek neverjudged as such, either.
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