Echoes of Past Hosts on the Horizon

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I’ve been told that in a couple of weeks, after James and I return from our trip to Trill, a Starfleet engineering team will be visiting the orbital platform. They’re coming to survey a section of the station that currently sits unused, with the intention of possibly taking it over.

On the surface, it sounds perfectly routine. So where’s the complication, you ask? Well… one of the officers on that team is a talented Lieutenant Junior Grade named Bezree Kahn. Yes, that Kahn. The current host of the Kahn symbiont, whose previous host was Lenara.

A bit of history for context:

- In 2285, the Kahn symbiont was joined to Nilani, who was married to Torias Dax. Torias died in a shuttle accident, leaving Nilani devastated.  
- Later, in 2373, Lenara Kahn visited Deep Space Nine. The Kahn symbiont and Jadzia Dax briefly considered reassociation, but doing so would have risked the symbiont’s expulsion from Trill society. Jadzia was willing to take that risk; Lenara ultimately chose to walk away.

I genuinely didn’t expect to find myself brushing up against this particular tangle of history again. But circumstances are very different now, and with any luck, this visit will be entirely uneventful.

image from DS9 episode "Rejoined" found on Memory Alpha.

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