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| Football is also played on Trill. One team is the Vrans City Feather Cats.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-apollo/c/nOKZdpooO5o/m/XXKk9QpP0CgJ The Soldier and the Diplomat], The Torrin-Dragumovs, {{USS|Apollo}}, 239111.24</ref> | | Football is also played on Trill. One team is the Vrans City Feather Cats.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-apollo/c/nOKZdpooO5o/m/XXKk9QpP0CgJ The Soldier and the Diplomat], The Torrin-Dragumovs, {{USS|Apollo}}, 239111.24</ref> |
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| Trill initiates are those of the Trill species who join an initiate program in order to train themselves for potential joining with a symbiont. The initiate program consists of an intense series of exams and evaluations, both mental and physical, that are designed to eliminate all but the most suitable and dedicated applicants. On average, only three hundred symbionts are available for hosting each year and about one thousand Trill apply for joining. Because there are many more humanoid Trill than symbionts, prospective hosts are weeded out by a demanding selection procedure, overseen by the [[ma:Symbiosis Commission|Symbiosis Commission]].<ref name= "Trill MA"/>
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| Initiates are first evaluated by the Trill Symbiosis Commission, which is responsible for their training. Near the end of the program the initiates are assigned to a field docent, a joined Trill who evaluates their suitability in real-world environments.
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| Curzon Dax was known to be a particularly harsh field docent and personally eliminated many candidates, including Jadzia. Jadzia went on to become the only initiate ever to be rejected and then later re-accepted for the program. The experience made her determined to be a different type of docent for initiates when she was charged with evaluating Arjin during his initiate period.
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| The strenuous nature of the evaluation can be intimidating for many initiates, and rejection often led to deep disappointment and loss of purpose. Verad serves as a striking example. After his rejection from the program, which he believed was unwarranted, he was determined to capture a symbiont from a current host and join with it outside the strictures of the Symbiosis Commission. To this end he removed the Dax symbiont from Jadzia Dax and was briefly joined with it in 2370.
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| ==Technology== | | ==Technology== |