Trill headcanon

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I’ve already established this in a comment on a post before, but I have more DS9 followers now, plus I feel like this deserves its own post.

Trill sexuality is kind of a hot point of discussion among fans of DS9. With Jadzia being the only clearly queer major character in a Star Trek series, the question among the fans is how her species affects her sexuality. Here is my take, which should answer a few issues on the show.

From what we know of basically every Trill we meet, sex is extremely important in Trill life, particularly for joined Trill. I mean, Curzon actually got sexed to death, and he went out with a damn grin. From this we can infer that a Symbiont carries extremely positive memories of its past hosts’ sex lives.

Now, how would a monosexual Trill who is newly joined deal with all of the Symbiont’s great memories of sex with both male and female body types? It’d probably be overwhelming and cause quite a few conflicting emotions, unless the joining made the joined Trill pansexual.

Now, I’m not just talking pansexual as we usually define it, but Captain Jack Harkness hot-damn-I-think-Morn-is-cute pansexual. That’s gonna be a big change for any Trill, which means part of the training for Trill to be joined is helping them understand the profound level of sexual energy they’ll have afterwards. Which brings me to the last part of this headcanon.

The reason mirror!Ezri is a lesbian isn’t because she’s from the mirrorverse, it’s because she’s unjoined. Prime!Ezri was also a lesbian before her joining. Her sudden pansexuality is part of what made her joining so terrifying and overwhelming for her, and thinking so much about all of the libido for men she’d never had before was what made her fall so hard for the men on the station.