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Saturday, December 14, 2019

(Asking Too Much) Will The Goa'uld Live



The Stargate Sg1 series centers on the demise of the System Lords Goa'uld, but though there are the Tok'ra by series end is it enough for the species of Goa'uld symbiotes to survive?

To start off with, the Goa'uld appear to have a healthy ability to breed.


That fact alone would make me wonder why there are not more command positions for matured symbiotes in the former System Lord hierarchy if it were not for the fact that we witness the System Lords engage in cannibalism.  Seriously, I realize that was intended to depict a special occasion and the Tok'ra only caught wind of the meeting because of the noticeable drop in population, but it goes a long way to explaining why when every symbiote who takes a host is his or her own little king that there aren't more chefs in the kitchen.

And so with the demise of the System Lords there is room for a population explosion.

But wait a minute, their being farmed now for Tretonin.  Teal'C even brags over Apophis that from now on his own kind will be harvested for the Jaffa's benefit.  That seems morally suspect in light of the fact that we have been shown that the larva pouch is reversible with Goa'uld technology and the Jaffa are ultimately human.


Can the Tok'ra stand by while members of their species are harvested to be minced up into a vial?

I'd argue that they have to, but not out of some grand ideal.  More likely now that the System Lords have been definitively overthrown every respectable Goa'uld has to live in fear of being faced with a genocide.  This interpretation gives credence to why the Tok'ra gave so much pomp to removing each and every last Bal's symbiote.  It's a dramatization to signal whose victory it is.  The Tok'ra need to remind everyone who they are so that other denizens of the galaxy don't start turning their eye to the Tok'ra in terms of a final solution to prevent the galaxy from ever becoming so enslaved again.

We're talking about the possibility of a real racial tension here where I don't know if any Goa'uld from this point forward (if they're lucky enough to avoid the Tretonin pools) will be able to live unsegregated in the Milky Way.


Remember, one of the leading theories why the System Lords were so maniacal was due to prolonged use of the sarcophagus.  And from Carter's father we know that symbiotes do have an upper limit on their lifespan.  Therefore, they could theoretically become a species that lives alongside everyone else from this point forward, but there's no reason for the trust to be there to allow that to happen.

And the Tok'ra's precarious position as a Goa'uld faction within the galactic community is a clear example of how this could all end tragically; never mind the supposed comeuppance of enslaving and slaughtering future generations of symbiotes who can just as easily experience guilt over actions they never had a part in by way of their genetic memory.










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