I do not care what the Gorn look like anymore than I care that Number One and Chapel do not look like the same person.
I DO care that the Enterprise crew encountered the Gorn in the same part of space that they had always encountered them in, acting the way they had acted previously
and take essentially no notice of other than the immediate predicament.
Babbling about backstory was kind of a go to move for these people.
This was an enemy so overpowering that they brushed Spock stealing the Enterprise under the rug rather than hampering their ability to fight them.
If Kirk was so perplexed at the visual discrepancy (which everything else would lead me to believe that there isn't one) why would he have not asked his Gorn opponent? "Hey, they say you're a Gorn. Are you the same Gorns that used to blow up Federation spaceships about five in years ago?"
I DO care that the Enterprise crew encountered the Gorn in the same part of space that they had always encountered them in, acting the way they had acted previously
years after they had been put to sleep
Babbling about backstory was kind of a go to move for these people.
This was an enemy so overpowering that they brushed Spock stealing the Enterprise under the rug rather than hampering their ability to fight them.
If Kirk was so perplexed at the visual discrepancy (which everything else would lead me to believe that there isn't one) why would he have not asked his Gorn opponent? "Hey, they say you're a Gorn. Are you the same Gorns that used to blow up Federation spaceships about five in years ago?"
