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4. Why Did They Tease Us With Gorn? (Down)

Star Trek Lower Decks
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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!

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Seán is the host and head writer/presenter for TrekCulture, as well as a writer/presenter on WhoCulture and WhatCulture Horror. He has authored two novels, dozens of short stories, and hundreds of articles for WhatCulture. He holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from University College Dublin. As part of his work with TrekCulture, Seán has been invited to participate in collaborations with Roddenberry Entertainment, as well as contributing to several Star Trek community projects. An avid fan of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and the horror genre at large, Seán's expertise has helped develop these channels to the successes they are today. As host of the Ups & Downs series on TrekCulture, Seán has become internationally recognised for his positive yet critically informed approach to reviewing every episode of modern Star Trek, ensuring he is one of the go-to voices in the Trek community. Favourite Quote to describe himself: "I'm serious about what I do, just not always about the way that I do it"