Trivia / Star Trek: The Next Generation S4E23 "The Host"

• Prop Recycling: The Peliar Zel escort vessel is a reuse of the Merchantman spaceship model from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
• Working Title: E Pluribus Unum.
• The spin-off novel Forged in Fire established the reason for at least some of the differences in the Trill featured here and the Trill depicted in DS9; Odan's branch of Trill were infected by a variation of the Klingon Augment virus - causing them to lose their spots and grow forehead ridges. While transporters did tend to cause stress for the symbionts, their disinclination was more a means of hiding the existence of the symbiotes.

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