Star Trek: Discovery
admonition : SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery season 5 , installment 3 - " Jinaal "
Summary
The hunt for the in vogue clue inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 ’s treasure hunt involvesa Trill ritual first seen with Lt . Commander Jadzia Dax ( Terry Farrell ) onStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . 800 years beforeStar Trek : Discovery ’s 32nd hundred , Romulan scientist Dr. Vellek ( Michael Copeland ) laid the clues that will ultimately run to the life - create technology of the Progenitors . InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 3 , " Jinaal " , written by Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Wilkinson and directed by Andi Armaganian , Vellek ’s latest hint guide to Trill , so that ’s where Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and the USS Discovery gang hope to incur the next piece of the teaser .
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 3 ’s clue points specifically to a 24th - century Trill symbiont host make Jinaal Bix . as luck would have it , the Bix symbiont is still animated , so everything Jinaal knew lives on in Bix ’s current host , Kalzara Bix ( Clare Coulter ) . The only wrinkle is thatMichael Burnham , Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) , and Dr. Hugh Culber ( Wilson Cruz ) must talk to the long - idle single legion Jinaal directly , and not the united entity of Kalzara Bix . This seems inconceivable , but with the assistance of Dr. Culber volunteering as temporary host , there ’s a specific shake ritual fromStar Trek : Deep Space Ninethat can actually make that bump : zhian’tara .
Star Trek : Discovery ’s Trills are weird and close , in precipitous line to the nerveless and magnetic Jadzia and the wizardly Ezri Dax in DS9 .
What is Zhian’tara? Discovery & DS9’s Trill Ritual Explained
Past Trill hosts can temporarily live again.
Zhian’tara is the Trill ritual which allowsthe consciousness of a symbiont ’s past hosts to be temporarily transferred into willing volunteer . DS9 ’s Jadzia Dax undergoes zhian’tara inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 3 , episode 25 , " aspect " , with the rest ofDS9 ’s regular cast embodying all ofDax ’s previous host . While the past hosts ' minds engross living volunteers , those memory are no longer part of the symbiont , and unprocurable to the current host . Volunteers ' minds are suppressed , but still aware , since Quark ( Armin Shimerman ) is able to break through Audrid Dax to complain , and Dr. Culber remarks on the queer nature of being present in his own body with Jinaal .
DS9 Characters Embodying Previous Hosts in Jadzia Dax ’s Zhian’tara
Lela
Major Kira Nerys ( Nana Visitor )
Tobin
Chief Miles O’Brien ( Colm Meaney )
Emony
Leeta ( Chase Masterson )
Audrid
Quark ( Armin Shimerman )
Torias
Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig )
Joran
Commander Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks )
Curzon
Odo ( Rene Auberjonois )
The Trill Symbiosis Commission consider the zhian’tara ritual a required part of being a joined Trill , since the symbionts are venerated as keepers of shake chronicle . In a typical zhian’tara , like Dax ’s inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , the current Trill boniface is expect to fulfil and interact with their retiring hosts in ordering to better understand themselves and where they fall along the chain of individuals that make up a symbiont ’s lifetime . The conception of transfer awareness via zhian’tara , and the fact the irregular hosts need not be Trill , hasfar reaching implications on the nature of consciousness and the mind ’s connection to the physical bodyinStar Trek .
Prior to " Jinaal " , an aytpical zhian’tara was used inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 , episode 3 , " Choose to survive " , to permanently transfer the consciousness of Gray Tal ( Ian Alexander ) from the Tal symbiont into a synthetical body .
The Trill Connection To Star Trek: Discovery’s Progenitor Technology
The Trill know something that other Star Trek cultures don’t.
It ’s probably no fortuity that a Trill was on the team that the 24th - 100 Federation President tasked with reveal the mysteries of the primogenitor ' engineering . At the end ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 3 , " Jinaal " , Burnham and Culber discourse howJinaal can possess Culber ’s bodyfrom a scientific perspective , and conclude that"some thing are unknowable",but the Trill themselves have no such questions . It ’s a topic of fact in Trill culture that the judgement is decouple from the body , and symbionts are biological storage for late hosts ' somebody , while also being severally sentient . That ’s authoritative when dig deeply into how the origin of sentient life .
If the progenitor ' technology is subject of create life , does it merely build the forcible trunk as empty watercraft expect the Dame Muriel Spark of life , or is Progenitor technology able-bodied to produce person from scratch , too?There must be a reasonStar Trek : Discoveryis using the Trill to lie the groundwork for the ultimate reveal , when interchangeable practices be in otherStar Trekcultures , like the Vulcan power to place one ’s katra with another someone . With the Progenitors behind the existence of all sentient mechanical man life inStar Trek , Star Trek : Discoverymay come to the finish that it is n’t just biota that unite us , but our souls as well .
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