Sperm fertilizes eggs.
Sperm by itself, doesn't do much.
There's hundreds of tiny fertilized eggs in every cup of saliva these Gorn generate that transfers into their surrogate victims when they bite.
(Pick one.)
1. All the Gorn we have seen are Girls, but there's a few Gorn boys running around fertilizing eggs inside all the one hour old killer babies during combat missions.
2. Just larger than microscopic Gorn inside a host surrogate victim, meet and mate so that hours later when they become macro, the girls have pregnant smiles, and the boys have been churned into poo.
3. Fertility is triggered by a hormon release in the opposite gender, like with dogs, which implies a mating season, or a tiny window where they are fertile periodically. Science could fake this by dumping chemicals in the strike zone.
4. Self fertilizing hermaphrodites.
5. One day old boys and girls on the battlefield fertilizing eggs and laying eggs in hosts, as they highlander each other for dominance. Maybe the baby males are supposed to be the hosts? The men all die in child birth. Men are not part of adult Gorn society.
6. Born with prefertilized egg sacks, similar to tribbles. The Gorn and the Tribble might even be from the same planet as one species is endless prey and the other is unnumberabled predators. Equilibrium.
7. Gorn can only make babies for their first week of life. Later in life, for the next 4 hundred years maybe, Reptiles live a while? Later on in life, the adults job is to make sure that they co-ordinate the children to guarantee the perpetuation of the species. Their entire society might be thousands of adults looking after billions of children.
8. Genetic memory like the Goul'd. They might even take on memories of the host too, like the Magog from Andromeda, which makes it less fuc%ed up sending children into a battlezone to get pregnant, and die.
9. These Gorn are assholes who believe in a purist authentic classic experience, even though modern technology has taken all the thrill and carnage out of mating, which would make these breeding swarms highly illegal inside Gorn space. Therefore the demarcation line we saw might be inverted. The Federation is safe inside Gorn Space unknowingly protected by a effete modern Gorn system of etiquette and law, meanwhile the other side of the line is interstellar space, where anything goes.
10. Class warfare. These Gorn have been bred to be disposable moron killer dogs. Genetically engineered if not socially conditioned to be a fraction as intelligent but very happy with their lot, just like in Brave New World or Mote in the Eye of God. Higher classes of Gorn breed less destructively, and don't expect to die immediately during procreation, and learn how to read, and build space ships instead of fighting aliens the moment they are born.
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is based on the binoculars from "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"
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