Quick, let's misquote Gene Roddenberry
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One of the dumbest things in a Nu Trek show was some random non binary human character with a Trill symbiont. Clearly it was done because symbionts bond with both males and females which obviously means gender isn't important so the show needed a character where gender was both important AND not important!
The reason this is dumb however is that the reason there are so few Joined Trill is that there are so few symbiont. It's literally as simple as a numbers game.
A DS9 episode even reveals that the Trill government statement about the very low compatibility amongst the population is a lie and far more of the population could in fact be Joined. The lie is perpetuated to prevent civil unrest from those who want to Join. The fact a future episode then has some random human Join, and even call attention to how normal humans can now successfully Join since Riker had to temporarily for plot reasons and prolonged exposure would have killed him, completely glosses over the point about how the Unjoined Trill population would respond to this where symbionts were being Joined with non-Trill over their own population!
It would literally cause a civil war! 🙄
Old Trek had a trill who had both male and female hosts... Dax-Curzon.
There were no problems.
I don't see why they don't just continue to treat them the same way as they always did. Oh right, because it isn't about actually presenting a unique worldview, it's about ESG score.
All of the Dax hosts were still Trill, and it was issues with the sixth host, Joran, that led to Sisko learning about the lie being told about just how many Trill could actually be Joined.
The fact that Jadzia was preceeded by Curzon was immaterial to the symbionts as the whole point of Joining was to maximise experiencing life. Which was also the reason resuming relationships was so taboo as it didn't add anything. The one time this gets explored in depth was the lesbian relationship and kiss the show had with Jadzia, while Ezri hooking up with Worf felt more like bad writing and drama for the sake of drama given how many episodes it lasted. Dax and Khan was a one off for the contained episode and while debatable how much it gets used as the tip of the wedge, didn't hang around longer than it should.
The show could have simply added a non binary Trill if that was the entire intention but for some stupid reason they decided to go that extra step and make the host human as well!
The whole episode where a rejected candidate steals the Dax symbiont shows just how significant the whole Joining process is to some Trill and modern writers thought it a good idea to canonise "permanent" non Trill hosts?
Idiots. Actual idiots.