Are there two species of Gorn?
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I doubt a "real" Gorn would look like a guy in a rubber suit or a crude CG, just like real computers 250 years hence won't be about blinking coloured squares or swirly blue screensavers. It's all meant to be impressionistic - the future as seen in the 1960 and today. The same world, seen through different eyes.
As for the novels, I haven't read the one in question, but The Needs of the Many has a fast-moving subspecies of Gorn never seen in TV/film Trek.
As for the novels, I haven't read the one in question, but The Needs of the Many has a fast-moving subspecies of Gorn never seen in TV/film Trek.
Nah. They're sunglasses. The TOS gorn is hungover after a night of drinking romulan ale with his crew. Explaining why he's so slow
^ "Where's the captain?" "He's Gorn Orff." 
Nah. They're sunglasses. The TOS gorn is hungover after a night of drinking romulan ale with his crew. Explaining why he's so slow
Hmm, him being inebriated and hitting on Kirk would actually make more sense. You heard it here first people! I sense someone's already typing away on a new slash fiction.
Judging solely by the looks of things, so do some people who live around here.
for convenience sake while reading Seize The Fire I pictured the gorn as Unas from Stargate SG-1 but with an additional central cranial ridge and without the chin horns, and larger mouths
it's not canon, but anything else based on the original gorn was cartoony, and took too much work to visualize
it's not canon, but anything else based on the original gorn was cartoony, and took too much work to visualize
Just to complicate matters, what about the flat-faced Gorn from the last movie? Are we just ignoring him (or her) because it was in a cut scene?
Minor note; Wasn't the TOS Gorn's fingers fused so that it was esentially a two finger one thumb kinda thing?
Also, what about genetic engineering? That could acount for the differences in forms/castes?
I for one have no problem with authors or script writers using variations in costumes/makeup/CGI as inspiration for their stories, as long as they're entertaining and thought provoking, it's all good!
Minor note; Wasn't the TOS Gorn's fingers fused so that it was esentially a two finger one thumb kinda thing?
Also, what about genetic engineering? That could acount for the differences in forms/castes?
I for one have no problem with authors or script writers using variations in costumes/makeup/CGI as inspiration for their stories, as long as they're entertaining and thought provoking, it's all good!
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He wasn't blinking, it was errrrrrrrrr
Screen-wipers, like on cars.
He probably had sand on them or something.
*Cough*, yeah that explains it
He wasn't blinking, it was errrrrrrrrr
Screen-wipers, like on cars.
He probably had sand on them or something.
*Cough*, yeah that explains it
Tin Man is correct about the TOS Gorn having three fingers. I just googled Gorn images and there they were.
Why does a higher budget justify a re-design?
No different than the disappearing/reappearing forehead ridges on Vulcans and Romulans. A stylistic choice and nothing more. No need to complicate things...
We can also postulate a much simpler explanation: There are simply different kinds of Gorns, even though the number of fingers and types of eyes seem radically different.
Remember, the Gorn captain Kirk encounters is much slower than the one shown in ENT. Maybe he was a really old Gorn, and the one in ENT was younger and faster.
Remember, the Gorn captain Kirk encounters is much slower than the one shown in ENT. Maybe he was a really old Gorn, and the one in ENT was younger and faster.
One of my uncles has just three fingers on his right hand, hardly makes him a separate species.
And what about Scotty? Was he a different species from the rest of the Humans aboard the Enterprise?
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