Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x10 - "Hegemony"

[Therin of Andor]

I just take it as the SNW version of the Gorn are a different species of Gorn. Same with the ENT version.

The Kelvinverse Gorn were featured antagonists in the licensed computer game and they had tails similar to the SNW Gorn. They were said to have stepped through a gateways from a parallel universe.

There was even a Lego-like figurine (Kre-on figures) released of the Kelvinverse Gorn.

Kre-ons aliens by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Mego’s brown Gorn (8” action figures in Klingon uniforms) from the 70s have even been seen in a fairly recent comic mini-series by the Tiptons (for IDW), set in the Mirror Universe.


Mirror Universe Mego Gorn guards and the Mego Neptunian by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Plenty of possibilities, especially considering all the canonical clines of Klingons, Romulans, Andorians, Tellarites, Betelgeusians and Trills we have seen.

 

[Odo]

I'm fine with the Gorn so far, but I think this should be their last Gorn story, unless its some really brilliant one-off further down the road. I think they need some solid recurring villains to build up their world. I'm sure we'll see that space pirate from season one again with Sybok. Also - let's visit Andor! Give us an Andor story!

 

[nightwind1]

I would consider her loss... acceptable.

NOPE

 

[ichab]

A lieutenant jg seems to be a bit low on the rank scale to be Chief Engineer of the Enterprise. (After all this isn't the 24th Century. )

If the current chief of engineer leaves, he'll get promoted. I'm pretty sure the way this all ends is with Kirk taking command of the Enterprise and everyone will be in place to begin the new five year mission. We already have the key players on the show with the exception of Sulu and McCoy.

 

[Odo]

Also, I loved the look of that Gorn in the spacesuit.

 

[nightwind1]

This is very much a "turn off your brain" episode.

NOPE

 

[UssGlenn]

otherwise, why would you build a town based on one of the most inefficient layouts of city planning known to human history?

but you want to open a barber shop in a town where you have to drive because US cities aren't designed to be walkable.

It just seems odd that an advanced people would pick such an inefficient form of living otherwise.

We've about beat this to death, but I'm curious what super efficient town design you would prefer to see?

 

[Korusan]

I mean, the world building is so light that for me it's just one of those things that's easy to nitpick.

Are they the prepper off the grid types who want to be cut off from civilization? Elaborate cosplayers like the people on Lower Decks who founded a society on a planet with dragons? Tom Paris-like fanboys who really love Ohio?

You have magical boxes that can take you anywhere you want to go, make you anything you want to eat, wear, use, consume, but you want to open a barber shop in a town where you have to drive because US cities aren't designed to be walkable.

I suppose I'm half joking because to me it really is the equivalent of the Nazi Planet or the Old West Planet, but it's just funny to think about.

Because people like that lifestyle, and if it's doable in the future they'll seek out doing it as an idyllic lifestyle like any number of past colonies we've seen in the franchise.

 

[gvn2fly]

Darn, surprising people hung up on the town being, well a town. Reading to much into it..

For real world/practical/financial reasons.. is there a back lot no one is using.. yep this small town.. Okay, lets spiffy it up abit, add some technology here or there.. poof! alien planet..
No one complained when all the worlds in Star Gate looked like British Columbia.. I'm sure if this was filmed in LA, we'd have some dust small town.. and more complaining..

Or the dozens of times in the older Trek shows a planet was the same cave set.

 

[gvn2fly]

This was one of 3 episodes this season I didn't like very much and probably my second least favorite. I just wasn't engaged or interested in the story - it just felt like something I've seen other entertainment do better. I don't really like or care about the gorn and, while I appreciate their alien look, don't really like how they are just monsters. Chapel being the only one alive also took me out of it. Also not a fan of Scotty being in this.

I'd rather have more musicals LOL. I absolutely loved 2.7 and 2.9. Can't love em all I guess.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Lithium, not Dilithium.

Since Star ships switched from lithium to dilithium, its probable that these boys from Mud's Women, can't afford their wives anymore.

 

[1001001]

Well, I don’t think this one was great, although they have an exciting cliffhanger.

I think there were some questionable choices in this one, but it wasn’t overwhelmed by them.

I know this horse has been beaten to death, but I’d really like it if we got some more context regarding the Gorn and their society. It’s hard to imagine these creatures developing interstellar travel, so obviously there must be more to it.

What happened to Angel and Sybok?

Anyhoo…decent. 7

Overall though a very good season. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Well, I don’t think this one was great, although they have an exciting cliffhanger.

I think there were some questionable choices in this one, but it wasn’t overwhelmed by them.

I know this horse has been beaten to death, but I’d really like it if we got some more context regarding the Gorn and their society. It’s hard to imagine these creatures developing interstellar travel, so obviously there must be more to it.

What happened to Angel and Sybok?

Anyhoo…decent. 7

Overall though a very good season. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

Do the babies take on the characteristics or carry on the memories, of the host?

 

[Cpt. MAGA Man]

Also not a fan of Scotty being in this./QUOTE]

Why is that?

 

[mattman8907]

Why is that?

I think the OP is referring to the fact that in a big universe, that it gets smaller when you introduce Legacy characters.

 

[nightwind1]

Does the "Mayberry" backlot still exists?

I was hoping we would see "Floyd's Barber Shop" on the window of the shop.

 

[Dukhat]

I know this horse has been beaten to death, but I’d really like it if we got some more context regarding the Gorn and their society. It’s hard to imagine these creatures developing interstellar travel, so obviously there must be more to it.

That's the biggest issue I have with the SNW Gorn: Besides the whole xenomorph thing, this is basically the same plot as that godawful Starship Troopers movie, where humans are going to war against essentially mindless cattle. So far the Gorn have been shown to be completely lacking in intelligence and are just motivated by instinct. And yet they're intelligent enough to build FTL spaceships?

 

[fireproof78]

Brain and queen castes.

Dumb ones don't make spaceships.

 

[Dukhat]

Brain and queen castes.

Dumb ones don't make spaceships.

Has this been shown?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Has this been shown?

Yes, in Star Ship Troopers.