Origin of the Tok'ra
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:23 am
A thought occurred to me the other day when I was watching "Cure", the episode where SG1 goes to Pangara where they have developed the miracle drug Tretonin, and find out later it's made using gua'uld symbiotes bred from the Tok'ra Queen Egeria. I saw this shortly after seeing "Abyss", the episode where the Tok'ra Canan, after blending with Jack to prevent his death, is compelled to return to Ba'al's palace to rescue the slave he had met there.
Essentially my thought was this: While the Gua'uld don't blend with their hosts and simply suppress the hosts personality/identity/conciousness, the Tok'ra do which leads to both the host and symbiote changing as people (similar to the blending that occurs for Trill I think). We also know that young gua'uld are unable to completely suppress the hosts identity (Nightwalkers). So what if Egeria, the queen that spawned the Tok'ra was too young/immature to take a host when she did. She's supposidly one of the older Gua'uld and could have been around since before the Jaffa incubation. So what if the Tok'ra actually spawned because instead of being able to suppress the host, the host and symbiote blended fundamentally altering Egeria's Ideology.
What do you think?
Essentially my thought was this: While the Gua'uld don't blend with their hosts and simply suppress the hosts personality/identity/conciousness, the Tok'ra do which leads to both the host and symbiote changing as people (similar to the blending that occurs for Trill I think). We also know that young gua'uld are unable to completely suppress the hosts identity (Nightwalkers). So what if Egeria, the queen that spawned the Tok'ra was too young/immature to take a host when she did. She's supposidly one of the older Gua'uld and could have been around since before the Jaffa incubation. So what if the Tok'ra actually spawned because instead of being able to suppress the host, the host and symbiote blended fundamentally altering Egeria's Ideology.
What do you think?