Well, it was good while it lasted...
La'an was pointless as a Noonien Singh, which made making her one problematic. Kirk & Co. look bad.
Whoever owns the Xenomorphs needs to sue the fuck out them. Newt, too. That ain't homage. It's theft...
No one owns those ideas in any meaningful sense. O'Bannion heavily mined the story "The Black Destroyer" for his script premise and specifics of the monster, as well as the film I
t! The Terror From Beyond Space, so he'd have no leg to stand on in claiming that he created the story or creature. Arguably, both Van Vogt and the folks who made
It! could have sued him, though.
Aliens? Well, Cameron likely has no taste for plagiarism suits, given that he's frequently been sued for stealing other people's ideas and has come out on the short end of a couple of those (while others have rightly been dismissed as nuisance suits).
Given the number of films that have borrowed specific tropes, scenes and designs from the Alien movies in the last forty-odd years, the Trek people would not be high on the list of potential defendants from the POV of any competent IP lawer.
The point of the TOS Gorn were that they looked menacing and they'd acted viciously, but they were intelligent spacefaring beings who had been wronged. These things were straight-up monsters from an 80's horror movie. It's like we learned nothing about not judging a book by its cover, people by how they look.
You're wrong about the meaning of that story. Kirk was entirely justified in judging the Gorn not by "how they looked" but by their savage and criminal
actions. What he had to face, at last, was that the barbarism of the enemy didn't justify his violating civilized norms in turn. The only way in which the Gorn had been wronged was in an act of trespass into their territory; in return, they'd slaughtered civilians and children and lured the Enterprise into an ambush intended to destroy it. None of that was in dispute, and there was no intimation of acceptance of mutual responsibility between Kirk and the Gorn captain.
In fact, the Metron tells Kirk directly that the Gorn would have destroyed him had their roles been reversed.
Well, of
course he would have - the Gorn were awful.
So, with the encouragement of people like Roddenberry, fandom has turned "Arena" - lifted without permission (but with eventual payment) from the award-winning short story "Arena" by Fredric Brown, though the Trek people always insisted that it was all an incredible coincidence - into a bedtime story and humanist parable suitable for Gene's Vision and the image that they hold of what Star Trek ought to stand for. But that doesn't make the kindhearted reading the only, or even the most likely, interpretation.
Yeah, case dismissed.
She's appears to be making an effort (and I personally read that effort as sincere, at least so far). He's the one who doesn't want to embrace the human apparently - for a number of justifiable reasons, I imagine.
