Good treatment of the various incarnations of the Gorns. I don't get his idea that since he thinks Gorns look like Alligators their ships need to look like Alligators. He also thinks Alligators are slow. Good luck trying to outrun one of them.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 08:40 am: Edit

Absolutely. Over relatively short distances alligators are both quick and very fast.

--Mike

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 08:55 am: Edit

Alligators have been clocked over 20mph and have reached 30mph. The limit is about a hundred feet, but for the average obese American who hasn’t been to the gym since high school, that’s enough to make you into dinner. It’s not like you can stand your ground with a baseball bat.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 12:00 pm: Edit

Alligators and Tarantulas are very often incorrectly portrayed on the screen as slow. Live and in person they are definitely not.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 01:47 pm: Edit

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By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 04:09 pm: Edit

Reminds me of my first encounter with a Scorpion, in Catholic school with it running down the hallway.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 05:52 pm: Edit

Camel spiders are very fast, too.


Garth L. Getgen

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, March 12, 2023 - 11:45 pm: Edit

"The Gorn Imperative" A Star Trek Fan Film

Part One -- Runtime = 14:50

Part Two -- Runtime = 12:38

Part Three -- Runtime = 11:03


Garth L. Getgen

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Thursday, May 04, 2023 - 01:20 pm: Edit

The official soundtrack for season 1 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has just been released on various digital platforms.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, June 02, 2023 - 02:36 pm: Edit

Well, I finally broke the plastic on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season one DVD set and binge-watched the whole thing. Yeah, I'm a bit behind on viewing my DVD collection.

Overall, I liked it. However, would I be alone in saying I despise how the Gorn were presented???


Garth L. Getgen

By Xander Fulton (Dderidex) on Friday, June 02, 2023 - 04:49 pm: Edit

Certainly not alone.

Not just because it's annoying to those of us who are big fans of how ADB envisioned the Gorn...but it's also just lazy and internally inconsistent from a writing perspective. And nearly flatly contradicts the source material (TOS, TAS, and ENT episodes, and dialog references along the way).

Could have just given the species a different name and it would at least have eliminated conflicts with established lore...(although not really helped the writing...how does a primitive parasitic race develop warp, shield, and weapon technology equivalent to the Federation Star fleet??)

Still, the rest of SNW is solid enough, and I'll go ahead and pretend the species we saw was the 'Khorn' or 'Gorun' or something NOT the SFU/TOS Gorn...

(EDIT: Although, OTOH...how La'an says 'Gorn'...I mean, that outs her as a Romulan spy, right? Because that's definitely how I've always said 'Gorn'... )

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Sunday, June 04, 2023 - 05:20 pm: Edit

https://youtu.be/l-dKdjEIANc

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, June 04, 2023 - 10:48 pm: Edit

Outstanding, Mike

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Tuesday, June 06, 2023 - 08:15 pm: Edit

The GOT version was just as cool

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 11:31 am: Edit

Manny Coto, the showrunner for season 4 of Star Trek: Enterprise, passed away recently at the age of 62.

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Also, has anyone here been watching season 2 of Strange New Worlds? And if so, what are your thoughts - BBS spoiler rules notwithstanding - on how this season is progressing thus far?

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 04:44 pm: Edit

I'm thoroughly enjoying SNW, Gary. That said, I enjoy all Trek from TOS right on through to SNW, so there's that.

By Matthew Lawson (Mglawson) on Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 10:49 am: Edit

A general Star Trek question....the TOS established and created the Gorn, I hadn't heard of the Gorn Hegemony until SFB...so did ADB invent their government/organization or was it established prior somewhere other than the series.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 03:39 pm: Edit

I thought I remember hearing Riker mention the Gorn Hegemony in an episode of TNG. FASA called it the Gorn Alliance.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 03:58 pm: Edit

And we call it "The Gorn Confederation" (or "The Confederation of the Gorn").

By Matthew Lawson (Mglawson) on Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 04:16 pm: Edit

Oh that's right....I feel so dumb now, thanks SPP.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 05:32 pm: Edit

Matthew Lawson:
No need to feel dumb. It is not something you deal with oh a daily basis. But SVC has written a lot of stuff about the Confederation government. and a few thing about the Klingon empire government, and stuff about the Hydra Kingdom, and the Lyrans, and . . . .

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 08:27 am: Edit

TOS bloopers
https://youtu.be/UpcZVWpCMEI

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Friday, October 20, 2023 - 06:58 pm: Edit

This person is attempting to make the biggest model of the 1701.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee1gULdMP28

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Friday, October 20, 2023 - 08:42 pm: Edit

Been getting snips of the work through my Facebook feed over the summer....
Guy is dedicated....

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Saturday, October 21, 2023 - 05:17 pm: Edit

Yea, but have to wonder when he's adding the impulse engines as the midline looks too symmetrical.