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

[fireproof78]

There is no "mileage' when one is just pointing out ONE particular "ripoff" from 50 plus years of them, because of one's displeasure of it resembling something else.

There's not a whole heck of a lot of logic in thinking that way.

Just further proof to me that Alien's influence is far too overblown.

 

[Michael]

For what it’s worth, I’m totally on board with what they did with the Gorn on Strange New Worlds and even I would say it’s an obvious nod to the Alien franchise. Calling it a “rip-off” is IMHO judging it too harshly, but they very clearly wanted to do their own version of the xenomorphs. This goes beyond any specifics of how their biology is portrayed; watching parts of “Hegemony” and (especially) “All Those Who Wander” you can’t help but notice that they are riffing on the aesthetics and conventions of that franchise, complete with a dirt-faced Newt stand-in, chestbursting scene, an infected character sacrificing themself and a staredown between a woman and an alien. And I think that’s totally fine. However, I do hope that eventually they manage to add more of their own flavor to the concept, nudging the Gorn away from instinct-driven monsters towards intelligent agents.

 

[Mudd]

It does look like that's where they're going.

TOS borrowed heavily from specific films, such as The Enemy Below. It's funny that "Arena" itself is nearly a point-for-point copy of a well-known short story, down to the title. And a fair amount of TMP comes from Robert Wise's Run Silent, Run Deep, which he directed but did not write.

Then there's a little movie called Forbidden Planet...

 

[johnnybear]

Yes, and determined insistence on an unambiguous consistency in canon is very much being fed by a spoon.

Someone likes to think he was schooled at Harvard methinks...
JB

 

[Tuskin38]

Rewatching this, there’s a few musical cues that sound very TOS