Your opinion on SNWs Gorn
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I think the feral youngling that we have witness in SNW is basically Gorn's super soldier project. They're just a weapon that create to hunt the enemy. So basically, maybe they're not the real Gorn's youngling. They just Gorn's weapon. Their only purpose in their life is to hunt the enemy.
Well, of course they need to be safe. Because if not, they'll have to face "THIS IS NOT STAR TREK" rant from the fans.
How much does it actually take?
The Gorn encompass many species under one Hegemony.
That rationalization doesn't strike me as overly difficult.
This whole thread and every other thread about this topic would seem to demonstrate otherwise.
It demonstrates the tendency of Trek fans to overthink everything, and assume one version of an alien is the only version that can possibly exist.
It demonstrates that for all the preaching about diversity that only applies to humans.
This is what the Gorn are like now. BOOM! Done in one.
Hell, we did it for Klingons in '79. And that lasted a couple of decades.
I don't care whether they fit with an old episode or not.
They're starting to suggest hints of a life-cycle - the "younglings" behaved less competitively than the humans expected, in this episode, and we saw an adult in a spacesuit trying to hack a computer* - but they should explain as little as possible about these critters.
Let 'em remain a dangerous mystery.
*The currently-universal signifier of "clever."
They're starting to suggest hints of a life-cycle - the "younglings" behaved less competitively than the humans expected, in this episode, and we saw an adult in a spacesuit trying to hack a computer* - but they should explain as little as possible about these critters.
Let 'em remain a dangerous mystery.
*The currently-universal signifier of "clever."
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I'm getting very sleepy....
It was much better than Cats!
I like 'em.
While I have, and still think TOS Gorn has a lot of wasted potential with new, better, special effects, that definitely makes more sense than everyone trying to twist themselves into pretzels to explain how they became completely different (IMO suckier) characters.
IIRC, their character is vicious lizard like alien. So, I think we’re good.
UNKOWN vicious lizard like alien. As opposed to NOTORIOUS vicious lizard like alien.
We're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Sure there are superficial similarities but the original Gorn seemed to behave a lot closer to the Predator than the Xenomorph.
Agreed.
And they don't all look the same or act the same.
ETA: I had a thought of another example (besides the Klingons which is routinely dismissed as a poor example) from another scifi franchise:
Is this a Scarran?
Or this?
Or this?
Or this?
Or this?
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The adult Gorns in "Arena" and "Hegemony" are close enough in behavior to be the same species to me.
I find that to be rather minor. There have been worse transgressions.
Funny, possible allusion to SNW in Lower Decks Season 3:
Ransom: Once again, we're cleaning up a mess for a bunch of outpost scientists. You know why these guys are getting eaten, disappearing and getting eggs laid in their chest?"
Ransom: Once again, we're cleaning up a mess for a bunch of outpost scientists. You know why these guys are getting eaten, disappearing and getting eggs laid in their chest?"
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