So, I gave The Gorn Crisis a read tonight and found it suitably enjoyable. Then I went over to Memory Beta and found that the Gorn have never figured prominently into a single Trek novel, ever (according to Memory Beta anyway). What's up with that? Anyone else like to see a novel that delves into Gorn culture? I know they're insular, but still... being so popular, I would have thought they'd get some lovin' in at least one novel.
Who Mourns for the Gorn?
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It would be very interesting, I agree.
How would it be done, though?
How would it be done, though?
I agree that it does seem odd that they haven't gotten any love.
If done well, I think a Gorn novel could be fun. I'd like to see Sulu and the Excelsior take on the matter. When they they dealt with the Tholians in The Sundered it was quite enjoyable.
Aaron McGuire
If done well, I think a Gorn novel could be fun. I'd like to see Sulu and the Excelsior take on the matter. When they they dealt with the Tholians in The Sundered it was quite enjoyable.
Aaron McGuire
It would be cool if the Enterprise-C dealt with the Gorn. Not much love for them, either.
The Gorn have been used a few times in the novels, notably the TNG novel Requiem by Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin Ryan.
They have been used, true. However, the Klingon and Romulan cultures and the Cardassians and Bajorans and Tholians have all been covered much more.
They're Gorn, but not forgotten.
^ GUARDS!!!
I think you might have Gorn overboard with that one, Christopher
The Kirk musical number, cut from "Arena":
It's a creature, called a Gorn,
And it's really strong,
I will hunt that bastard down,
Woo hoo hoo,
Woo hoo hoo
(Apologies to the Eagles.)
It's a creature, called a Gorn,
And it's really strong,
I will hunt that bastard down,
Woo hoo hoo,
Woo hoo hoo
(Apologies to the Eagles.)
Don't make me pull this BBS over! We will turn around and go home right now if you kids don't knock it off.
Are we there yet?
Well, if you're Gorn to be that way about it...
Vixen said:
Yep, those are some hard-core Gorn, all right.
When aren't Gorn hard-core?
The Gorn were in Requiem by MJF and Kevin Ryan, and also in Gateways Book 3: Doors Into Chaos by Robert Greenberger, both TNG books, as stated above. They also appeared in two SCE eBooks, both of which are in the newly released Corps of Engineers print compilation Creative Couplings, to wit, Paradise Interrupted by John S. Drew and Where Time Stands Still by the Wardilmore Gestalt Entity. 
Well, I'm happy that the Gorn Confederation, the Star Fleet Universe incarnation of the Gorn race, is alive and kicking...
...and that there will (eventually!) be a Gorns sourcebook for them for the Prime Directive RPG!
(There's a story based around the Gorns - yes, in the SFU they are called Gorns in plural form - hitting a Romulan research facility in the era prior to the Balance of Terror incident, during which the Roms and Gorns fought on and off for over a century, included with ADB's FC newsletter. Though the Gornsss ssspeak with a ssstrange type of sssspeech...)
...and that there will (eventually!) be a Gorns sourcebook for them for the Prime Directive RPG!
(There's a story based around the Gorns - yes, in the SFU they are called Gorns in plural form - hitting a Romulan research facility in the era prior to the Balance of Terror incident, during which the Roms and Gorns fought on and off for over a century, included with ADB's FC newsletter. Though the Gornsss ssspeak with a ssstrange type of sssspeech...)
the Gorn appear in several of my 23C fan-fic, including 'Attack of the Gorn' in the 'Red Shirts: Tellus Prime' series, 'The Taking of Monitor Station 33' in the Red Shirts: U.S.S. Taurus series and the Special Ops spin-off 'The Gorn Agenda' which co-stars the TOS cast in the post-TMP/pre-TWOK era...
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