Your opinion on SNWs Gorn

[The Wormhole]

Seven's backstory has her parents going rogue to chase rumours,

O Rly?
From Dark Frontier:

MAGNUS [OC]: Field notes, U.S.S. Raven, Stardate 32611.4. It's about time. The Federation Council on Exobiology has given us final approval. Starfleet's still concerned about security issues but they've agreed not to stand in our way. We've said our goodbyes, and we're ready to start chasing our theories about the Borg.

I see no reference to Seven's parents "going rogue." Indeed, given the Federation Council on Exobiology had granted them approval, that would seem to indicate they were officially sanctioned. Which is the complete opposite of going rogue.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

ERIN: We have deviated from our flight plan, crossed the Neutral Zone, disobeyed a direct order to return. Our colleagues obviously think we are insane. We have burned our bridges, Magnus.

This is what I had in my head, but I missed that line you quoted.

 

[nightwind1]

... and a bloodthirsty maniac? nobody wants those in their military

Ever heard of Chris Kyle?

 

[oberth]

Ever heard of Chris Kyle?

what makes you think he was a bloodthitsty maniac?

 

[nightwind1]

what makes you think he was a bloodthitsty maniac?

His own book.

 

[oberth]

His own book.

i haven't read it

 

[Noname Given]

Except April in SNW confirms the Fed are having tense talks with the Gorn and are almost at war with them.

April never indicated that there were any talks or actual in person negotiations with the Gorn. What he said was that Starfleet was aware that Gorn ships were moving towards the Federation border.

 

[Kor]

I missed some discussion about the Eugenics Wars and WWIII above...

Here is what we know from "cannnnon."

TOS "Space Seed" did lump Earth's "last so-called World War" with "The Eugenics Wars," setting this in the 1990s.

The direct connection between the last World War and The Eugenics Wars was not brought up again in the TOS-verse or in Berman-era Trek.

The movie First Contact placed the end of WWIII at 2053, and then the Phoenix launch happened in 2063. No mention was made of "Eugenics Wars" or anything about genetically-engineered superhumans, though. Supposedly, meeting the Vulcans ushered in this new era of peace and whatnot for all of humanity.

But... TNG "Encounter at Farpoint" had the "post-atomic horror" in 2079, but did not actually give a name to whatever war/conflict led to it. Was it lingering effects from WWIII, or did something else happen after first contact with the Vulcans?

And then SNW pushed some events further along in time. S1 E01 showed that footage of unrest on Earth in the early 21st century, looking very much like the real-world 2020s. Pike says, "We called it the Second Civil War, then the Eugenics War, and finally just World War III." Apparently we are now meant to understand this as a protracted period of conflicts going on for 20+ years, and starting in the 2020s instead of the 1990s.

SNW S2 "Tomorrow..." confirmed that the timeline change was the result of some timey-wimey stuff with "temporal wars." Sera says it was originally supposed to all start in the 1990s, but she's been stuck there for thirty years trying to make it happen.

Edit to reply to another comment:

But still the same "organization" that the Enterprise encounters in Arena, right? Who attack and behave (tactically) pretty much like the Gorn from ten years previous?

Yes, that's my thought; along the lines of the "Gorn Hegemony" from the old Trek tie-in stuff. Different types of Gorn all within one big geopolitical entity or something.

Kor

 

[Astrostars2025]

I'm really not sure what to think... At this point I think they kind of ruined the Gorn since they were unknown enemies in TOS and the one Kirk fought never attempted to spray him with eggs... But I like the small skirmishes I guess.

 

[Caretaker]

I missed some discussion about the Eugenics Wars and WWIII above...

Here is what we know from "cannnnon."

TOS "Space Seed" did lump Earth's "last so-called World War" with "The Eugenics Wars," setting this in the 1990s.

Actually, Spock said

The mid-1990s was the era of your last so-called 'World War'.​

The word "era" leaves a bit of leeway.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Actually, Spock said

The word "era" leaves a bit of leeway.

From 1990 to 1999

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Frankly it feels like a desperate attempt to turn one of "Star Trek's" most famously campy aliens into a villain we can take seriously. But at best they just feel like an "Alien" ripoff. To be fair, even as obvious a ripoff as they are, the concept does make for a fresh kind of villain for this franchise. So....alright.

 

[JLA]

Ever heard of Chris Kyle?

'He's so mean!'

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I'm running with the headcanon that the Gorn have multiple subspecies and this is a violent bioweapon type. TOS and Enterprise ones being two other ones.

It would explain Kirk and Spock being so unfamiliar with them by the time of Arena, but the question would be what type of event pushed this subspecies out of being the plague it is.

 

[knightgrace]

David(Prometheus, Covenant) has been playing games with the Alien, from Alien...

Slow FTL travel, requiring suspended animation. This is reflected by comments in the episodes 'The Cage, and 'Where No Man Has Gone Before '...plus other early Star Trek episodes. The comment on the Time Barrier in 'The Cage ' is definitive. A Slow FTL means that a great deal could have happened, without Earth/the Federation not knowing about things.

 

[HotRod]

David(Prometheus, Covenant) has been playing games with the Alien, from Alien...

Slow FTL travel, requiring suspended animation. This is reflected by comments in the episodes 'The Cage, and 'Where No Man Has Gone Before '...plus other early Star Trek episodes. The comment on the Time Barrier in 'The Cage ' is definitive. A Slow FTL means that a great deal could have happened, without Earth/the Federation not knowing about things.

Huh?