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Questions about Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Obvious spoilers.

Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:34 am
Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:34 am
So me and the wife started watching this about a month ago and finished the most recent season a few days ago. We liked it overall. Granted it had some eye roll moments in it but not too bad. It was a nice touch that one of the lesbians on the show is hot with a great rack so to my questions. I’ve seen all the main ST shows. Original Trek, Enterprise, Next Gen, DS9, and Voyager. Have the Gorn ever been mentioned in any of them? If not this makes me think the end game of the series is to completely wipe out the species.

In the season 3 finale I think I got distracted or something. What type of entity brought the young black guy back to life? I think I remember something about something stealing his template out of the transporter pattern buffer. Also did Pike’s woman become a Q or something? How she became God like is a little fuzzy also. I might have been drinking

One last comment. Pike’s fricking hair That shite could withstand a phaser blast.
Posted by TigerMyth36
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:35 am to
Didn't they have the Gorn in Enterprise?
Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:40 am to
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Didn't they have the Gorn in Enterprise?


They might have. That was the series I watched kind of like background noise so I would remember the least about it.
Posted by TigerMyth36
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:45 am to
If I remember the episode. They had chameleon like abilities that made them invisible. I saw it on original release so I don't remember much about it but I know they had them in Enterprise.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:46 am to
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What type of entity brought the young black guy back to life?
The original entity that had taken him over when Roger Corby led them into that alien building that turned out to be a prison for this entity and it's brethren.

There's some fan speculation that the entity is of the same race that was taking over people as hosts in the original series' Jack the Ripper episode.
Posted by FredBear
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:50 am to
Off topic but I read recently that the last 2 seasons are going to have less fluff episodes and return to more serious sci-fi. Hopefully that turns out to be true, I don't mind a little but last season was a bit much though I think the writers strike was a factor in that
Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:51 am to
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The original entity that had taken him over when Roger Corby led them into that alien building that turned out to be a prison for this entity and it's brethren.


So did it take him over when it burned out his eyes and kill him or come back for him later?
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:56 am to
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So did it take him over when it burned out his eyes and kill him or come back for him later?
It took him over. It lost its shite when it ran into Pike's wife (who has Gorn DNA in her). Turns out they're mortal enemies of the Gorn). Scotty trapped it like a Ghostbuster and transported it into space.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 11:58 am to
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Pike’s fricking hair That shite could withstand a phaser blast.
His hair when he was a Vulcan was Kid 'n Play perfection.
Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 12:20 pm to
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Pike's wife (who has Gorn DNA in her).


I knew this but that’s not what turned her into a Q like entity is it? I mean the Gorn are corporeal not God like.
This post was edited on 10/30/25 at 12:22 pm
Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 12:21 pm to
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His hair when he was a Vulcan was Kid 'n Play perfection.


That was a funny episode.
Posted by Loup
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 1:04 pm to
Wasn't this a Gorn in TOS?

Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 1:31 pm to
You brilliant bastard. I never put two and two together. Outstanding.
Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 1:32 pm to
Ok so we’ve established that they existed in shows that take place before STSNW. Any mention in Next Gen?

ETA. OS takes place after to some degree.
This post was edited on 10/30/25 at 1:58 pm
Posted by Loup
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:40 pm to
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You brilliant bastard. I never put two and two together. Outstanding.


Yeah they got quite the upgrade in SNW
Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:43 pm to
No shite. instead of mini Godzillas they became like a xenomorph hybrid type thing.
Posted by Napoleon
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:46 pm to
The Gorn were in the most famous original series episode.
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Posted by BOSCEAUX
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 3:13 pm to
As a child that’s how I learned how to make gunpowder
Posted by FredBear
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 3:26 pm to
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As a child that’s how I learned how to make gunpowder



LOL. Yep, until Kirk figured that out the Gorn was straight up kicking his arse
Posted by luvdoc
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 5:11 pm to
The original short story, "Arena", on which that episode was based, was a better story with a more realistic and better ending

similar to star trek, humans and an alien species are at war. Knowing that if the war was allowed to continue, the victorious race would not have enough strength left to endure, an all-powerful entity plucks a single human and a single alien off the final battlefield, and puts them into a battle arena to fight to the death, with the loser's race to be eliminated entirely

In a battle of wits and strength, the human Wins, killing the alien and ensuring the continuance of the human race

in the star trek version, Kirk wins, but refuses to kill the alien, then lectures the all-powerful entity about compassion, and humans are allowed to live. I do not remember what happened to his opponent, but I am pretty sure they were not eliminated. It was cheesy
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