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[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reimagining the Gorn:

Writer 1: remember the Gorn?

Writer 2: are you talking about the guy in the lizard costume?

Writer 1: yup.

Writer 2: that was so stupid.

Writer 1: ...

Writer 1: okay. But what if we redid the Gorn and made them scary?

Writer 2: scary?

Writer 1: sure. Like ... remember the movie 'Alien'?

Writer 2: of course.

Writer 1: let's do that.

Writer 2: do what?

Writer 1: let's do Alien.

Writer 2: I'm not sure that I underst-

Writer 1 scribbling furiously: shut up! We're doing Alien.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This sounds like a conversation Boimler and Mariner from Lower Decks would have

[–] maino82@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I liked the gorn episode, but it kinda came out of left field. I mean, it didn't help that in my head every time they would talk about the gorn in earlier episodes I would think of the dude in the green lizard suit, so I had this comical picture in my head of all these people being terrified of a guy in a silly outfit and was not mentally prepared for an alien remake...

[–] r2vq@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I guess I was lucky to have first experienced the Gorn in Enterprise. They were treated as scary and dangerous in a way TOS would never have been able to.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Xenomorphs with a whole ass technological civilization are another level of scary

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And interesting too! Like ... actually "alien".

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly, actually alien aliens have been pretty rare in Trek. Usually they're stand ins for some human culture or ideology. Even the horta had pretty familiar and understandable motivations. These gorn are pequenino tier alienness.