Lorca has a GORN Skeleton in his mancave!

[RobertCardassian]

Has this been talked about yet?

Why does this show have to have all these shitty details (purple Klingons and fungus warp drives) yet all these good details (Sonnequa's character, Gorn cameos, Mudd cameo coming up, good effects). This show is such a mixed bag, though it skew on the side of shitty stuff

https://www.inverse.com/article/37109-star-trek-discovery-gorn-skeleton-harry-mudd

 

[RobertCardassian]

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[SPCTRE]

okay, OP, I'm gonna ignore everything you said and just simply give you props here for calling that room his mancave, because that is fucking exactly what it is, that is just perfect

 

[RobertCardassian]

It would be cool to see a Borg limb or eye implant show up somewhere in Disco too... with no explanation given or any live Borgs encountered. Just foreshadowing.

 

[Kemaiku]

He also has a live Tribble, possibly dead baby Horta and that thing on the table is apparently a Cardassian vole.

 

[RobertCardassian]

From First Contact:

 

[The Wormhole]

Or see someone dragging in a Jem'Hadar corpse into Lorca's mancave, again with no explanation.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I await the multi-part episode/season-long arc to explain how there could be a Gorn skeleton there, before Kirk makes first contact with the Gorn in "Arena," assuming that that's in fact a Gorn skeleton in Lorca's man cave.

 

[Leonardo T. Dragon]

It would be cool to see a Borg limb or eye implant show up somewhere in Disco too... with no explanation given or any live Borgs encountered. Just foreshadowing.

There's a precedent for it too-- they did show up in Enterprise.

 

[BillJ]

I await the multi-part episode/season-long arc to explain how there could be a Gorn skeleton there, before Kirk makes first contact with the Gorn in "Arena," assuming that that's in fact a Gorn skeleton in Lorca's man cave.

Nine-part novel series.

 

[Noname Given]

I await the multi-part episode/season-long arc to explain how there could be a Gorn skeleton there, before Kirk makes first contact with the Gorn in "Arena," assuming that that's in fact a Gorn skeleton in Lorca's man cave.

Yes, because there's no way the space faring Gorn could have colonized other worlds (unsuccessfully and died - leaving unidentified remains (or do you believe the skeleton had a sign that read: "Hi, I'm called a Gorn - Thanks'.)

We (the audience) know is probably a Gorn. All Lorca knows at this point is: It's the skeleton of a dead reptilian alien.

 

[BillJ]

We (the audience) know is probably a Gorn. All Lorca knows at this point is: It's the skeleton of a dead reptilian alien.

But it wasn't really needed. It was another useless wink-nod that makes the universe feel small.

 

[Spider]

Yes, because there's no way the space faring Gorn could have colonized other worlds (unsuccessfully and died - leaving unidentified remains (or do you believe the skeleton had a sign that read: "Hi, I'm called a Gorn - Thanks'.)

We (the audience) know is probably a Gorn. All Lorca knows at this point is: It's the skeleton of a dead reptilian alien.

Do we actually even know that? Has there been any dialogue referencing the skeleton? We all KNOW it's supposed to be a Gorn, this is Star Trek so it can't really be anything else, but yeah, does anyone on the ship actually know what that is?

Technically, the earliest Gorn appearance was in the ENT Mirror Universe episode by the way, and not TOS.

 

[XCV330]

Burnham: "These are some of the most dangerous weapons in the galaxy."

Lorca: "I study Gorn."

 

[cultcross]

But it wasn't really needed. It was another useless wink-nod that makes the universe feel small.

I'm not sure the mere existence of species we've seen before counts as small universe, and I'm normally the first to moan about it. If it had been the actual Gorn from Cestus IIIs mother, that's small universe.

*sighs* it is, isn't it?

 

[Noname Given]

Burnham: "These are some of the most dangerous weapons in the galaxy."

Lorca: "I study Gorn."

^^^
I guess I missed that reply. If that's what he said, yep; continuity violation.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

But it wasn't really needed. It was another useless wink-nod that makes the universe feel small.

Bingo.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Technically, the earliest Gorn appearance was in the ENT Mirror Universe episode by the way, and not TOS.

That's another universe. Kirk made first contact in the Prime Universe, at least as far as he and we knew at the time.

 

[XCV330]

That's another universe. Kirk made first contact in the Prime Universe, at least as far as he and we knew at the time.

Actually the Gorn are mentioned in the Prime universe in ENT. An Orion trader mentions to Archer that the the drink they are imbibing came from "The Gorn Hedgemony, but the less said about them the better."

so Starfleet knew about them, and maybe Earth traders knew of their products, specially after 100 years. That doesn't mean that they encountered live specimens.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Actually the Gorn are mentioned in the Prime universe in ENT. An Orion trader mentions to Archer that the the drink they are imbibing came from "The Gorn Hedgemony, but the less said about them the better."

so Starfleet knew about them, and maybe Earth traders knew of their products, specially after 100 years. That doesn't mean that they encountered live specimens.

Thank you for that clarification.