This was literally a case of Simpsons Did It!

I think the problem with the final season wasn't that it was bad (in fact looking at the episodes in netflix, it's pretty great overall.) It's more so that there was too much they had to cram in too little time. I think the story arcs would have worked better if the final season had been say, two seasons. As it…

Here she is in Kids in the Hall

I don't know. There's a scene in the upcoming episode "Chrysallis" where she's faux-lecturing Bashir, and for a minute she perfectly channels Jadzia to the point where I could believe she actually had that personality inside of her.

Because he realized that "love is blind" and his evaluation of Jadzia as a candidate may have not been objective?

Right. It seems like, at that point in trill society, the people who would wind up with the symbiont would be the classic overacheiver types, like the kids these days who are sure things to get into an Ivy League school, an whose life is all about that goal.

I think it made for a more entertaining character then Jadzia. Star Trek had never had a quirky, indie movie girl character before or since. And after this episode, where presumably she was still reeling from being joined, she quicly seems to become far more competent.

Ezri was clearly a hipster who joined starfleet to rebel against her mother. Since she enlisted either during, or just prior to the Dominion War (as a counselor) it's within the realm of possibility that starfleet relaxed the entrance requirements, especially for non-technical positions.

With Geordi and Crusher, they favor uncomparably with a genetically enhanced superhuman and singularity-type AI on the one hand, and Scotty "exagerate the time estimates because I know Kirk will expect me to do the impossible" and O'brien who was simultaneously an everyman and one of the greatest engineers ever. …

I sort of had the opposite impression of the Enterprise D. It seemed like the Galaxy Class ships were an overly ambitious project that took way too long to complete. Think about how many systemic problems the Enterprise D had compared to the original Enterprise or the Intrepid Class Voyager, which was able to…

They probably needed at least some sort of military to enforce their trade agreements. Maybe the Grand Negus noticed the frequency at which the military would go rogue, recognized the ferengi had enough economic power that they no longer needed their own military, and disbanded the whole thing. Which also works as…

Riker was on a blacked out bender, and he made the whole trill thing up as cover.

Presumably the symbionts in the pool are sentient and communicate with each other via electrical impulses, although it is a very alien form of consciousness.

Or, in the scenario i outlined above, the joined trill attempted to join the other humanoids, and an extreme evolutionary event occurred (those trill who could not be joined or who died in the attempt were quickly weeded out of the population.)

So presumably, they evolved separately, and the joining was an accident… Perhaps since it allowed accumulated knowledge to be passed from one host to the next, it provided an incredible advantage for the humanoids who were living underground in a post-apocalyptic society. An evolutionary bottleneck then occurred, as…

The series bible of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine mentioned that "Many centuries ago, the symbionts lived underground while the humanoids were on the surface… and due to an environmental disaster, they were forced to 'join' to survive"

I think true AI is a relatively new thing for the federation, and it would wind up being confusing to deal with.

Maybe they are. Maybe the "Trill" part refers to the symbionts, and there are two different species the symbionts interact with, in two different ways.

Hmm, Those are tough. Well, as far as four goes, I suppose the federation's role was to try and broker a peace. 2 doesn't make much sense. I don't remember 3 well enough to comment. 1. He was scolded by Picard. What he did was legal, but I suppose there's a difference between a cultural value that effects…

As was revealed in an earlier episode of DS9, that was a myth perpetuated to keep Trill society stable, for some reason (I'm guessing so there wouldn't be conflicts, potentially violent, over the symbionts, or people using their power, influence, or wealth to get symbionts. I could sort of see why it would be bad if…