| the tokra are in decline because they don't have a queen and don't make babies and since they take hosts voluntarily only (usually) then if they can't find a host, they die. lilke sam said in tok'ra, zero or negative population growth
as to the 'kinder gentler goauld'...well was kiana really a goauld? could she have been a tok'ra that got tired of fighting a seemingly endless war and decided to toss her fates in with baal to go for the comfy ride?
we never found out, never even found out her name. and had she been injecting herself with the masking agent all along or only because of sam's presence? sensing goauld isnt exactly a common ability, at least not on kelowna/langeria.
and if she injected herself to defend from sam, well then she had to know of sam and her abilities. most humans can't sense goauld and there aren't a lot of ex-human hosts around, it's always been presented that jolinar dying and sam surviving was very much the exception instead of the rule
or maybe she was a descent of Yu's...he's a goauld that doesn't lust for power, but rather makes his kingdom and is satisified to simply maintain it
there is also the fact that pretty much the whole universe has it in for the goauld since they're such nasty beggers, well what if they finally decided that the way to survival isnt' to conquer, but to make thier kingdoms and then settle and be content |