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

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It's entirely possible that the Gorn Captain fighting Kirk in TOS was nearing the end of its lifecycle.
Its slow and plodding demeanor may just be how an elderly Gorn behaves.

The Metrons didn't give either side the chance to select their best fighter, they just chose the Captain of each starship.
Perhaps Gorn Commanders are picked for their lifetime of knowledge, not their fighting skills.

Most lizards here on Earth only live to be 30 or 40 years old, maybe the Gorn don't live much beyond that either.

That's stretching it. If the adult gorns look like xenomorphs its a definite canon violation. I don't expect them to look like rubber suits but I would like to a upright lizard man.
 
There is no such thing as a "canon violation." It's a tired term that ought to be buried in some unmarked grave on a world no one visits.

There is contradictory canon. When a new event in official continuity - any onscreen instance of Star Trek produced by the IP holder - contradicts an earlier event, that's all it is: a contradiction. Both of the events shown are fully in canon.

If they change continuity explicitly, they're changing continuity. But they're still adding to canon, not "violating" it.
 
There is no such thing as a "canon violation." It's a tired term that ought to be buried in some unmarked grave on a world no one visits.

There is contradictory canon. When a new event in official continuity - any onscreen instance of Star Trek produced by the IP holder - contradicts an earlier event, that's all it is: a contradiction. Both of the events shown are fully in canon.

If they change continuity explicitly, they're changing continuity. But they're still adding to canon, not "violating" it.
I agree with this sort idea. I like it when SNW demonstrates that it knows its source material, but doesn't feel excessively bound to it. It's so much more fun to go along with SNW telling a Star Trek story without having my mental Memory Alpha butting in every five minutes.
 
Heh. All these attempts to reconcile the Gorn of SNW with Arena are entertaining.

I'll take my shot:

Maybe the Metrons weren't as all powerful and smart as they think they are, and the alien captain in Arena isn't a Gorn at all, but something else- the Metrons simply got their species mixed up. All us corporeals look alike to them...
The Arena Gorn are actually androids created by Harry Mudd to swindle people who had never seen a Gorn before, only they accidentally ended up wiping out the real Gorn through a series of misadventures and hijinks.
 
There is no such thing as a "canon violation." It's a tired term that ought to be buried in some unmarked grave on a world no one visits.

There is contradictory canon. When a new event in official continuity - any onscreen instance of Star Trek produced by the IP holder - contradicts an earlier event, that's all it is: a contradiction. Both of the events shown are fully in canon.

If they change continuity explicitly, they're changing continuity. But they're still adding to canon, not "violating" it.

Nah it's a violation if they completely change something.
 
There is no such thing as a "canon violation." It's a tired term that ought to be buried in some unmarked grave on a world no one visits.

There is contradictory canon. When a new event in official continuity - any onscreen instance of Star Trek produced by the IP holder - contradicts an earlier event, that's all it is: a contradiction. Both of the events shown are fully in canon.

If they change continuity explicitly, they're changing continuity. But they're still adding to canon, not "violating" it.
It's all timey wimey nonsense anyway. Who cares? Enjoy. Although I will say I am glad
Q is still around
.
 
It was a totally new face.
The "size" of the change is irrelevant. There was a change.

Going from a clothed upright humanoid to a zenomorph monster is a big change. If they don't at least make adult gorns look like humanoid lizard men that walk on two legs and are muscular with green reptile skin it's too much of a change to be able to look the other way. If they make them closer to the xenomorphs from the alien movies it's a big canon violation and no longer fits. Since they have their own space ships I believe we will be seeing humanoid shaped adult gorn and some here might be disappointed but I'll be happy.
 
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