Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 1 day agoI think. Kirk certainly seems unfamiliar with the Gorn, but they never really say it’s the first contact
There never say it’s first contact, but Kirk acts like he’s never even heard of the Gorn before.
" I have been somehow whisked off the bridge and placed on the surface of an asteroid, facing the Captain of the alien ship. Weaponless, I face the creature the Metrons called a Gorn. Large, reptilian."
However, that is definitely not the retcon Goldsman was talking about. He specifically says, “t was an opportunity to retcon something into a real monster.”
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
To be fair, the old Gorn rationale for attacking the colony was, “You’re in our territory, and we assumed you had hostile intent”…while the SNW rationale is, “We lay eggs in your body, so our young have something to eat when they hatch”.
That’s a significant difference in character motivation.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 day ago
The SNW Gorn literally pulled the classic sitcom “stay on your side of the line” routine - basically the same motivation as “Arena”.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yeah, but in “Arena” there was nothing about using humans as incubators / hosts. That’s the part they added in, to make them more “monster-like”. Without that, their motivation is not much different than our own. With that, they are much more terrifying and alien.
brem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Once they reach a certain age ~ the Gorn slow W A A A Y down. They begin wearing colorful tunics and can be easily subdued with a primitive blunderbuss.