would you accept show set in picard times with a gorn on the bridge?

[Vaughn Falstaff]

I have been thinking about all this talk of the enterprise having a non human captain. And I wondered what if you have a new show with the Enterprise F with a gorn captain? Are us fans accepting enough to allow the most unattractive by human standards life form take command of the flagship?

 

[dinzy]

I can't see them running 2 shows set on an Enterprise at the same time. If they do a non human-like captain they will not be the lead. Kind of like if Saru gets the nod on Disco.

 

[NCC-73515]

I like the Gorn, they could show up anywhere - as long as they don't look too different

 

[Quinton]

Fans? Sure. General audience? Nah. That’s why it would never happen.

 

[fireproof78]

I see no issues with this.

 

[Kzinti]

of course the real question however is what version of the gorn we're talking about

Spoiler: TOS Gorn

Spoiler: Enterprise Gorn

Spoiler: JJtrek game ''Gorn''

Spoiler: Star trek online Gorn

now personally i much prefer the STO Gorn they're not perfect but they're so much better than the original 1967 one

 

[NCC-73515]

I like all of them

 

[amp]

I don't think a Gorn captain would work for the simple reason that it would be too difficult to put an actor in that costume and get the kind of performance you'd need from a primary character. At the very least you'd need to leave parts of the face uncovered, but to do so you'd have to modify the look so much it wouldn't even read as a Gorn any more.

I guess you could go the full CGI route, although that would probably be prohibitively expensive for a TV show.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Not an issue with it.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

I don’t see why a Gorn couldn’t/shouldn’t command a starship.

 

[The Wormhole]

I can't decide which interpretation of Gene's Vision to use to draft my answer at the moment.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I would love to see a Trek series with just one human character on it, with a wide arrange of aliens to make the cast more diverse and interesting.

 

[Mudd]

This is a concept that about two dozen hardcore trekkies are crying out for.

 

[Jayson1]

Along as the CGI gorn looks better than it did on Enterprise. That was some Sharknado level CGI!


Jason

 

[dupersuper]

I'd be fine with it. I'd think a Gorn in Starfleet would be a bigger deal than Worf and almost as big a deal as Data, but 20 years with nothing but novels/comics/video games/the Spock flashback in '09 between Nemesis and Picard is just enough time for a Gorn to have recently graduated and made it to captain.

 

[Jayson1]

They could also go with a Horta like in the old TOS comic books or even a Tholian. It would be interesting to see a really alien kind of alien as a regular at some point.


Jason

 

[Kelso]

Only if it's Bobby Clark in a rubber suit.

 

[Relayer1]

Not an issue with it.

I really can't see why anyone would have an issue.

Cost could be a problem though - it's unlikely that even the best suit and animatronics would be good enough for regular close up bridge interactions. A fair amount of it would probably have to be motion capture as in the Planet of the Apes movies.

 

[Tim Thomason]

I would love to see a Trek series with just one human character on it, with a wide arrange of aliens to make the cast more diverse and interesting.

It's a Gorn ship with a lone human transfer officer that constantly weirds them out, like in the Alien Spotlight comic on the Gorn:

 

[Admiral Archer]

I have a fanfic I've been working on featuring a TNG-era ship with a Gorn first officer, so why not?