<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=191946.msg9461734#msg9461734">Quote from: Raziel on 16-01-2014, 15:08:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I remember that scene. Although technically she doesn't have 7 other people in her head just the memories of those lifetimes. It's more like remembering what they did as if she did them yet knowing at the same time it wasn't actually her.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Ezri is being somewhat facetious when she says she has eight other people in her head, and so is Imira.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Unless in this timeline different Joined Trill have different experiences of being joined, which would explain why Vox experiences the series lore of memory while Imira experiences it like voices and other trill also experience different feelings/sensations too.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Actually, you are making an assumption about Imira's relationship with the Loni symbiont, that is unsupported. If you bread all of my posts carefully you will see that while Imira talks to the symbiont, she doesn't actually get a reply, ever!<br/><br/>It is Imira's way of coping, to talk to Loni. I find in interesting that there is very little canon data regarding the Trill Symbionts and how they communicate with the host. Equally there is little data on the symbiont's reproductive cycle. One would assume that the mating of two joined Trill would be somehow involved... *shrug*<br/><br/>Maybe I'm confusing Trill and Goa'uld a bit too much, but to see the symbiont as nothing more than a memory bank strikes me as rather bland. One could achieve the same thing with a biotechnological microprocessor implanted in the brain, recording memories and experiences, and on the subject's death implant it into someone new. That does not account for the desirability of being joined, nor the Trill's desire for new experiences. It is, in fact, more a reason to keep doing the same thing, in order to improve it!<br/><br/>Personally I see the symbionts as intelligent creatures, self aware and autonomous, and capable of influencing the behaviour of the host to a certain extent.