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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 8680921" data-attributes="member: 6684958"><p>S1E9</p><p></p><p>The gorn are back...again. Look sure the gorn are great old school trek villains.....but it's a bit odd to keep reusing them every couple of episodes. Part of what makes them cool is the 'unknown' factor. At this rate we will have Gum the Gorn crewman soon.</p><p></p><p>Hooray for Ensign Doomed getting promoted, but everyone knew he was going to die...he might as well pulled out a holo crystal of his girl friend and said "as soon as I get back to Earth I'm gonna marry her!"</p><p></p><p>Pike praises Uhura for being on the ship....but, um, exactly "what" is he talking about? The like ten minutes of screen time she has done something useful in the past eight episodes? This is the huge problem with these pathetically short seasons, season one is just about over...but is barley at the holiday break for any normal show.</p><p></p><p>Sure it's cool old school trek....but the captain, science officer, ONLY doctor, ONLY nurse, security chief and chief engineer....with the red shirt extras....all leave the ship on an away mission at the same time? </p><p></p><p>So like most of the crew left the ship....on a class L "Hoth" planet.....and then froze to death? Seems starfleet should train people better then that. </p><p></p><p>Right from the start they all know a monster is maybe in the ship....and yet Pike is all like "ok, lets all split up to make nice easy small targets" like in most horror movies.</p><p></p><p>And Alien Bob...and little human girl. Sure, Bob can be a monster "blah blah blah".....but sure was amazing Newt just happen to be a pretty young human girl so she would get sympathy. </p><p></p><p>So they "scan" Bob..we guess....but can't detect the baby gorn...sure, whatever. But did the scans also miss all of Bob's other health issues?</p><p></p><p>And...sure....Bob is a typical idiot alien and hides his condition from everyone so he can die and advance the plot. Sure, he speaks gibberish, but he could still "point", show his "wounds" and ask for help.</p><p></p><p>And for that matter....if Newt does really care about Bob....then why does she no ask for help for him? She knows all about the Alien tm rip off gorn, right?</p><p></p><p>And why does Newt keep asking to "leave" like an annoying brat? She knows Alien Bob has kitten gorn in him and they will pop out soon, right? So even if they did leave, that would still happen....</p><p></p><p>And it takes forever for Nurse Capple to do the basic ''first aid safety check" and look at Bob's body. And...of course...right at the second she does so.....the gorn hatch!</p><p></p><p>Wow...amazing Newt knows the walk five steps away and curl up in a ball move that makes you undetectable to gorn kittens.</p><p></p><p>And...gosh...sure is amazing luck that the sick bay force field bed is working 100%. EVERYTHING else in sick bay barley works and flickers like crazy. But with no force field, then "not really" nurse Chaple would have died.</p><p></p><p>So......some kitten sized gorn climb out of alien Bob.....and like a minute latter one of the kitten gorn kills Lt. Doomed.....and drags him away? How does that work?</p><p></p><p>So.....they sure talk a LOT about Earth type life with 'packs' and 'alphas' and 'dominance' and 'challenges'. The gorn are aliens...so, you, know, they should be a lot more alien like.</p><p></p><p>So Pike tells Spock to do something....so cool Spock taps into his repressed Vulcan Hyde persona.....and then with a yell he breaks a floor grate! Wow...scary. </p><p></p><p>So...in like less then an hour kitten gorn grows into Velociraptor gorn? </p><p></p><p>So gorn "evolved" to be scan proof? What? The Star Trek tech that "scans" for lifeforms can't be too much more then 100 years old, and would be updated every couple years. But the gorn EVOLVED to be scan proof?</p><p></p><p>And...well, even IF the gorn are somehow magicaly scan proof......well, they still interact with the environment. In a mostly closed environment you can track life by oxygen use and accumulations of carbon doxiode. And EVEN if the gorn breathes and exhales something else.....that "something else" HAS to be the standard gases found on a Federation Starship, and you could track that. Also what about motion sensors? Sound sensors? </p><p></p><p>And the gorn have evolved to be immune to telepathy?</p><p></p><p>So Laan throws down her phaser and is all like "come get me I'm unarmed".......and the hour old gorn understands this? The newborn gorn understands the concept of a "gun"? Guess it evolved that too? Or do the gorn have a genetic memory?</p><p></p><p>And for Laans "don't use a gun, guns are bad plan".....er, why did she not just grab another phaser and hide it, so she could zap the gorn.....</p><p></p><p>Wow...sure was lucky the gorn did not evolve to be immune to cryo gas, right?</p><p></p><p>And...and....and....gorn spit egg slime....ok. Wonder how gorn reproduce with no other people around? Do they kill each other?</p><p></p><p>And nooooo....Hemer! He does the whole..."oh well they will hatch any second...guess Andorian equals like twenty minutes before hatching" and kills himself. </p><p></p><p>Wonder if Doc M could have put Hemer in a transporter to save him? Oh, well, he needed to die....</p><p></p><p>So, unless there are society gorn and beast gorn......the mess we have seen of gorn life makes no sense. Social animals that do the whole "alpha" thing don't (always) kill every other one of their kind. Such an animal would die out quick. Wolves don't kill all other wolves in a pack....because there ARE wolf packs. 'Gators kill each other....but then they live mostly alone. </p><p></p><p></p><p>So....how oh how did the gorn EVER develop 23rd century technology if they can't have a stable social society?</p><p></p><p>Unless the gorn are not a "real" race and they were made artificially by another race to be weapons/hunters/WMDs.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 8680921, member: 6684958"] S1E9 The gorn are back...again. Look sure the gorn are great old school trek villains.....but it's a bit odd to keep reusing them every couple of episodes. Part of what makes them cool is the 'unknown' factor. At this rate we will have Gum the Gorn crewman soon. Hooray for Ensign Doomed getting promoted, but everyone knew he was going to die...he might as well pulled out a holo crystal of his girl friend and said "as soon as I get back to Earth I'm gonna marry her!" Pike praises Uhura for being on the ship....but, um, exactly "what" is he talking about? The like ten minutes of screen time she has done something useful in the past eight episodes? This is the huge problem with these pathetically short seasons, season one is just about over...but is barley at the holiday break for any normal show. Sure it's cool old school trek....but the captain, science officer, ONLY doctor, ONLY nurse, security chief and chief engineer....with the red shirt extras....all leave the ship on an away mission at the same time? So like most of the crew left the ship....on a class L "Hoth" planet.....and then froze to death? Seems starfleet should train people better then that. Right from the start they all know a monster is maybe in the ship....and yet Pike is all like "ok, lets all split up to make nice easy small targets" like in most horror movies. And Alien Bob...and little human girl. Sure, Bob can be a monster "blah blah blah".....but sure was amazing Newt just happen to be a pretty young human girl so she would get sympathy. So they "scan" Bob..we guess....but can't detect the baby gorn...sure, whatever. But did the scans also miss all of Bob's other health issues? And...sure....Bob is a typical idiot alien and hides his condition from everyone so he can die and advance the plot. Sure, he speaks gibberish, but he could still "point", show his "wounds" and ask for help. And for that matter....if Newt does really care about Bob....then why does she no ask for help for him? She knows all about the Alien tm rip off gorn, right? And why does Newt keep asking to "leave" like an annoying brat? She knows Alien Bob has kitten gorn in him and they will pop out soon, right? So even if they did leave, that would still happen.... And it takes forever for Nurse Capple to do the basic ''first aid safety check" and look at Bob's body. And...of course...right at the second she does so.....the gorn hatch! Wow...amazing Newt knows the walk five steps away and curl up in a ball move that makes you undetectable to gorn kittens. And...gosh...sure is amazing luck that the sick bay force field bed is working 100%. EVERYTHING else in sick bay barley works and flickers like crazy. But with no force field, then "not really" nurse Chaple would have died. So......some kitten sized gorn climb out of alien Bob.....and like a minute latter one of the kitten gorn kills Lt. Doomed.....and drags him away? How does that work? So.....they sure talk a LOT about Earth type life with 'packs' and 'alphas' and 'dominance' and 'challenges'. The gorn are aliens...so, you, know, they should be a lot more alien like. So Pike tells Spock to do something....so cool Spock taps into his repressed Vulcan Hyde persona.....and then with a yell he breaks a floor grate! Wow...scary. So...in like less then an hour kitten gorn grows into Velociraptor gorn? So gorn "evolved" to be scan proof? What? The Star Trek tech that "scans" for lifeforms can't be too much more then 100 years old, and would be updated every couple years. But the gorn EVOLVED to be scan proof? And...well, even IF the gorn are somehow magicaly scan proof......well, they still interact with the environment. In a mostly closed environment you can track life by oxygen use and accumulations of carbon doxiode. And EVEN if the gorn breathes and exhales something else.....that "something else" HAS to be the standard gases found on a Federation Starship, and you could track that. Also what about motion sensors? Sound sensors? And the gorn have evolved to be immune to telepathy? So Laan throws down her phaser and is all like "come get me I'm unarmed".......and the hour old gorn understands this? The newborn gorn understands the concept of a "gun"? Guess it evolved that too? Or do the gorn have a genetic memory? And for Laans "don't use a gun, guns are bad plan".....er, why did she not just grab another phaser and hide it, so she could zap the gorn..... Wow...sure was lucky the gorn did not evolve to be immune to cryo gas, right? And...and....and....gorn spit egg slime....ok. Wonder how gorn reproduce with no other people around? Do they kill each other? And nooooo....Hemer! He does the whole..."oh well they will hatch any second...guess Andorian equals like twenty minutes before hatching" and kills himself. Wonder if Doc M could have put Hemer in a transporter to save him? Oh, well, he needed to die.... So, unless there are society gorn and beast gorn......the mess we have seen of gorn life makes no sense. Social animals that do the whole "alpha" thing don't (always) kill every other one of their kind. Such an animal would die out quick. Wolves don't kill all other wolves in a pack....because there ARE wolf packs. 'Gators kill each other....but then they live mostly alone. So....how oh how did the gorn EVER develop 23rd century technology if they can't have a stable social society? Unless the gorn are not a "real" race and they were made artificially by another race to be weapons/hunters/WMDs..... [/QUOTE]
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