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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x04 - "Memento Mori"

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Am I the only one who thought the front part of that cargo ship looked like the Conestoga from 2069 as glimpsed in ENT? If so that was a good tip of the hat.
 
Yistaan said:
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-gorn-canon-explained

“I think there were some early ideas floating around where we might have caught a glimpse of one,” Perez says. “But there was always the idea that we should hear about them and begin to dread the Gorn without ever actually seeing them. Once we decided not to see them at all, the episode sprang to life.”

I think this probably only works if the audience doesn't already know what the Gorn look like. Except most Trek fans do. I guess they want to save on expensive CGI budget but honestly they probably should've just shown the Gorn on their ship when the main characters weren't around, similar to how Romulans were shown to the audience on Enterprise.
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See, I think it should be the other way around. I liked how the Gorn were a faceless enemy here, and I feel that Enterprise should have treated the Romulans the same way- they never should have been seen on screen. If you need to see the enemy for some sort of dramatic effect, use a different species, like the Tandarans or something.
 
Mr Awe said:
It's a good question though. Why would such an advance race with warp capable ships need to catch prey for food? That's not a very cost effect proposition. I suppose it could be tradition. But perhaps there's an underlying problem?
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It could be that it is in their nature- that they can't not do it, just like humans and cats are sometimes fatally curious.
 
Another excellent episode. Not quite a 10 (the Uhura/Hemmer stuff felt like it existed just to give the actors something to do, and I wish we'd seen a gorn, even if just in the flashback), but I'd say its a solid 9/10 on the voting scale. Fighting Khan at the end of TWOK must have felt familiar to Spock :vulcan:
 
Search4 said:
But no flamethrowers!
No rocks!
Sparks i can understand.
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Then that's a HUGE improvement for the sake of believability!

Sparks ONLY are the new Gold Standard in damage / debris within the confines of a Federation StarShip!

No more Rocks!
No more Flame Throwers!
 
Didn't Lorca have a Gorn skeleton in Disco?

I have not watched Arena recently, was it explicitly stated it was first Gorn contact? In person or ship? Starfleet ship or colony?

Anyway, if canon is busted, Disco already broke it. Yes?
 
Sparks flew in 1965 and 2022.
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Sparks is canon.
 
Uhura's Song said:
Didn't Lorca have a Gorn skeleton in Disco?

I have not watched Arena recently, was it explicitly stated it was first Gorn contact? In person or ship? Starfleet ship or colony?

Anyway, if canon is busted, Disco already broke it. Yes?
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Unless Mirror Lorca brought that with him from his universe or poached the Gorn on our side and knew just where to find some. No canon broken.
 
Mr Awe said:
Right, like I said, it could be tradition.
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Tradition and nature are different animals. Traditions are adopted, and can be ignored, dropped, or changed over time. Human nature (or Gorn nature) is what it is, and could only be changed over a long, evolutionary process.
 
I guess I need to re-watch this one. It didn't grab me like it did everyone else. I just felt like we've seen this one before (a couple of times) and there is no real tension when you know everyone is going to survive.
 
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