I kinda appreciate how the Metrons orchestrating things can explain details that seem extremely contrived or impossible otherwise:

• a human and a gorn being stuck in the same spot in the first place
• a traversable wormhole that they didn’t detect, and that is unlike anything on record
• a moon with an orbit that passes through a gas giant thermosphere, that somehow hasn’t had its orbit decay long ago, and that somehow retains a breathable atmosphere
• Ortegas and the gorn surviving burning the atmosphere - you see a blue glow around them when that happens