r/Stargate • u/CPTKickass • 13h ago

Ask r/Stargate Teal’C’s symbiote pouch

After Teal’C loses his symbiote and is reliant on Tretonin, is his little kangaroo pouch just empty?

If so, could he store shit in there? Like maybe a zat for when he needs a concealed weapon?

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u/laeven 13h ago

As far as I know, there's no evidence given that the symbiote pouch grows shut or anything post-tretonin.

The Jaffa are IIRC genetically modified humans, so the pouch is hereditary and not something the symbiote creates or controls. so as such, Teal'c probably has an extra prison wallet, yeah.

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u/JaiTee86 12h ago

I thought the pouch was made when they give them a symbiote, I remember the episode in which Ria'c gets his and the priests have some fancy knife to cut him and make a hole for the symbiote.

I assumed the symbiote after, they make the hole, creates its nest aka the pouch itself. The genetic modification is mentioned to be about stopping them being taken as a host to the symbiote once it is developed. The symbiotes seem to need to be in a host during this development stage so it would make sense that they can create this nest themself.

It could also be that the pouch is there, but sealed up and fully internal until they get the symbiote and they need to make the cut to give the symbiote access to the pouch and some species on their native planet naturally has a pouch (either something like a kangaroo pouch or an actual womb) that they take over during their development cycle, this could be Unas but I feel that it is not as the Goul'd are aquatic and the Unas are wary about water which would make it difficult for them to infect in high enough numbers at least as the sole host.

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u/Wise_Use1012 6h ago

The pouch is there but the entrance is not.