Star Trek: 9 Ways Strange New Worlds Re-Imagined The Gorn

9. Appearance

When the Gorn captain lumbered his way toward Kirk in Arena, he looked like someone stuck a tyrannosaurus rex head on Arnold Schwarzenegger's body and made him wear an animal hide. This version of the Gorn had big, muscly arms, clawed hands and feet, needle-like teeth in a wide mouth, tiny ear holes, and bug-like silver eyes.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' executive producer Alex Kurtzman saw reintroducing the Gorn as a chance to make them into real nightmare fuel.

The re-imagined Gorn were introduced as babies and juveniles in the episode All Those Who Wander. They more closely resemble velociraptors than tyrannosaurus rex. They have narrow faces, knife-like teeth, reptilian eyes, and tails. The agile juvenile Gorn run around naked on all fours and pop out unexpectedly when they attack their prey.

While still well-over 6 feet tall, the newly designed adult Gorn are slimmer than their Arena counterpart, walk slightly hunched forward, and have long tails. Instead of animal hides, the Gorn depicted in Hegemony wore a high-tech, armored spacesuit. Although less agile than the juveniles, the adult Gorn was capable of climbing around and hiding in the wreckage of a damaged ship and using its tail as a weapon.