Trill

• Trill Ministries

• President

• Humanoid

• Unknown

• Red (Iron-based)

• Most were distinguished by two rows of dark spots, which went all the way down each side of their bodies
• Minority didn't have spots but had ridges on their foreheads

• Typically joined in their early- to mid-twenties
• Joining occurred surgically, placing the symbiont in the host's abdomen;
• It connected neurologically & biologically with the host
• After 93 hours of joining, symbiont & host could not survive long without one another
• Retained the memories of all previous hosts, shared with each new one

• Curzon Dax
• Jadzia Dax
• Ezri Dax
• Illa Dax
• Lenara Kahn
• Gray Tal
• Ohk
• Kareel Odan

• Trill

• Symbiosis Commission oversaw the joining of the Trills & symbionts;
• Law forbade reassociation between hosts that had been romantically involved;
• Zhian'tara: a ritual for a joined Trill meets the previous hosts of the Symbiont

• Only a certain number of Trill could be joined
• Joining dates back to the 12th century, not widely known before 2367
• The Burn resulted in the depletion of the symbiont & joinable-host population