Yeah that was my thought, that it was a quarantine procedure and they moved the other patients. Which considering live gorn might be born I could buyOn the first point, I cannot help you. As others have mentioned it was left unclear. I will say that they kind of left dangling about the other Gorn not in that system? Or were there other Gorn outside that system? What about Parnassus where the colony was. No Gorn left there? But what about all the hatchlings we saw in Part 1?
As to your second point, there was a line of dialogue on the bridge about the colonists being beamed aboard from the Gorn ship and being treated in secondary sick-bay. I know that from the time of TOS there has been discussion/debate/speculation that based upon the size of the Enterprise there must be more than one sickbay space.
I assume that based upon the possibility of a Gorn outbreak on the ship they cleared all non-essential personnel (aka, all but Christine and Spock) from main sickbay and relocated them to the secondary sickbay. You will notice that at the start of the episode there were patients in other bio-beds when Batel is awake and being given initial scans and treatment. But if that was the scenario, it might have added realism if they added a security detail to be there just in case of the Gorn bursting out.
Perhaps something was filmed and cut for time when they did the evacuation?
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MarkB
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One patient that must be quarantined as she's liable to release a bunch of ravenous nasties at some point soon.
As mentioned, there was dialogue about other patients being treated in the spillover sickbay.
LIke I said, tell not show. Extras budget.
I don’t know how I found myself in this conversation!
pukunui
Legend
That certainly explains why the colonists are all left off-screen, but the Gorn seem mostly CGI (except for the single Gorn La’an kills), so I guess it was also the effects budget not just the extras budget.
That’s another thing — this episode supposedly has enabled La’an to overcome her trauma but it didn’t really show that. She kept having flashbacks, yes, and then Dr M’Benga advised her that she’s not in the past but in the present. Then she killed one Gorn at point-blank range. Was that really enough for her to get over her childhood trauma? It felt too easy / rushed like everything else in this episode.
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Ryujin
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It's about as "confront your fears" as you can get but yes, too rushed. They must be tying up every loose end they can think of, at this point.
pukunui
Legend
But why? It’s not like that was the series finale. The show’s been renewed for another season!
It just felt like the writers were done with the Gorn and wanted to wrap that storyline up as quickly as possible so they could move on to other things.
Oh well. I’m still looking forward to the “crew gets turned into Vulcans” episode.
Oh, and my sister found this re: episode 2:
Omand
Hero
Following on recent discussion. I wonder if when they were filming the Gorn plot there was internal concern that they were not going to be renewed?
We know there was a huge delay between this season and the last one, maybe Part 2 was rushed to as many conclusions as possible in case that was it. Some of that was likely the Hollywood strike, but still. I don't know the timeline for renewal between Season 2 and Season 3. Was the Season 3 renewal announced before or after Season 2 was completed filming?
I will stress that I do absolutely mean filmed, not broadcast/released, as we do know that Season 2 was delayed (not sure how much) after filming, and Season 3 even more so. Plus Season 4 may be even worse. It started filming back to back with Season 3 if I recall news correctly, but will not broadcast until late 2026 according to some reports.
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We know there was a huge delay between this season and the last one, maybe Part 2 was rushed to as many conclusions as possible in case that was it. Some of that was likely the Hollywood strike, but still. I don't know the timeline for renewal between Season 2 and Season 3. Was the Season 3 renewal announced before or after Season 2 was completed filming?
I will stress that I do absolutely mean filmed, not broadcast/released, as we do know that Season 2 was delayed (not sure how much) after filming, and Season 3 even more so. Plus Season 4 may be even worse. It started filming back to back with Season 3 if I recall news correctly, but will not broadcast until late 2026 according to some reports.
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Ryujin
Legend
Yeah, it doesn't make sense,, but it's the only thing that I can think of. Maybe it was written before they were renewed? I'm not a big fan of them using the Gorn, at any rate, any more than I was when "Enterprise" used the Tholians. It's pretty tough to say that you didn't know you were infringing on another nation's territory, when you know pretty much exactly where that territory is.
I'm just wondering how they're going to deal with Corby. They need to have a messy separation, of some sort, so that he can eventually be made into an android facsimile of himself that screams, "I AM Roger Corby!"
I'm looking forward to the 5 minute away mission as well. though Spock constantly being told he's the least Vulcan of the team seems more than a little hurtful, coming from that group.
Edit - They were pretty good about not spoiling Trelaine for TOS, in episode 2. It's unclear if they ever saw him in his preferred Napoleonic human form, or just in the skins that he was putting on, and he's never actually named that I can recall.
pukunui
Legend
Agreed. My niece didn't like that aspect of that clip either. Hopefully they apologize to him afterwards or something.
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