Species of the week: Gorn

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:44 pm

Pfft, it'll take more than you two for that.

Post by **Teaos** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:45 pm

Them theres fighting words partner...

Post by **Mikey** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:50 pm

Rochey wrote:Pfft, it'll take more than you two for that.

Tough talk, but the warranty on your surge protector will run out sooner or later...

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Fri May 16, 2008 8:03 pm

Mikey wrote:
Rochey wrote:Pfft, it'll take more than you two for that.
Tough talk, but the warranty on your surge protector will run out sooner or later...

Especially since he's unaware we installed a defective one into his power systems when he was laying over for a refit.

Post by **Mikey** » Fri May 16, 2008 8:26 pm

Oh, you mean like the one I have at home?

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:58 pm

Rochey wrote:I'd call this:
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb17 ... OSGorn.jpg http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb17 ... NTGorn.jpg
a bit more than "slight facial differences". If the one in ENT hadn't been specificaly referred to as a Gorn, I would have taken it as a completely different species.

Coudl also be a modernization of the species. Kind of like what happened with the Klingons or Telerites. Sorry if someone else already suggested this, I'm kind of skimming through the topic.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:59 pm

Oh, out of universe that's definitely what happened. We were trying to rationalise it in-universe.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:27 pm

Rochey wrote:Oh, out of universe that's definitely what happened. We were trying to rationalise it in-universe.

Well what I meant is it was retconned. I mean they explained why the Klingons changed but I doubt they'll ever explain why the Telerites changed. I just took it as a retcon.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:37 pm

But how do we rationalise a retcon in universe?

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:44 pm

Just like the Suliban, future faction/agent elements went back in time to help the Gorn improve their DNA and make alterations.

In specific, they were spliced with a genetic alteration with this template:

Below is a holo-image taken by Archer's crew of a Gorn fighting a temporal faction-modified Cardassian:

This had rather drastic effects on the timeline. The Cardassian occupation of Bajor never occurred, because after the temporal cold war, the typical Bajoran foot soldier looks like this:

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:58 pm

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:01 pm

Look! It's that thing that killed Lt. Yar!

Post by **Mikey** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:55 pm

In the immortal words of Calvin and Hobbes:

"'Japanese with English subtitles: Two big rubbery monsters slug it out over greater Tokyo.' And people say foreign film is inaccesible."

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Sat May 17, 2008 12:07 am

Damn it, Dusk...

Post by **Teaos** » Sat May 17, 2008 2:06 am

My money is on the giant moth.