Star Trek: Discovery 3.1 Review - Ups And Downs From That Hope Is You
4. Why Did They Tease Us With Gorn? (Down)
As recently as a few weeks ago, Star Trek brought back the Gorn, depicting them for the first time since Star Trek: Enterprise's fourth season. The beautiful wedding ceremony showed the audience that they have beliefs and customs to rival humanity.
The Gorn are name-checked in the early part of the episode, having been responsible for destroying two-light years of subspace while attempting to create a new, fast way of travel. This had the secondary issue of breaking down communications as well, as subspace is the main method of long range communications.
So why is this a down? The Gorn are long overdue for a depiction on-screen that isn't ridiculous, like Arena, or so-bad-they-shouldn't-have-bothered, like Enterprise. Lower Decks was a good one - now give us the Gorn in 2020 CGI!