Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[MarkB]

In other news, my Gorn theory…

The type of Gorn in Arena (in TOS) is a new type which comes from a human-Gorn fusion resulting from Batel’s infection.

Though I have heard some folks point out that the Arena Gorn is called a Gorn by the (Metrons?) not by the Enterprise crew, and Kirk’s log says “the creature that the (Metrons?) call a Gorn”. Maybe he means that as in why are they calling this creature a Gorn? I’ve seen them and they don’t look like this!

My theory is that, since they've now been put into a hibernation cycle, that Gorn from Arena was just really groggy from having only just woken up.