• flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reimagining the Gorn:

    Writer 1: remember the Gorn?

    Writer 2: are you talking about the guy in the lizard costume?

    Writer 1: yup.

    Writer 2: that was so stupid.

    Writer 1: …

    Writer 1: okay. But what if we redid the Gorn and made them scary?

    Writer 2: scary?

    Writer 1: sure. Like … remember the movie ‘Alien’?

    Writer 2: of course.

    Writer 1: let’s do that.

    Writer 2: do what?

    Writer 1: let’s do Alien.

    Writer 2: I’m not sure that I underst-

    Writer 1 scribbling furiously: shut up! We’re doing Alien.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I liked the gorn episode, but it kinda came out of left field. I mean, it didn’t help that in my head every time they would talk about the gorn in earlier episodes I would think of the dude in the green lizard suit, so I had this comical picture in my head of all these people being terrified of a guy in a silly outfit and was not mentally prepared for an alien remake…

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        1 year ago

        I guess I was lucky to have first experienced the Gorn in Enterprise. They were treated as scary and dangerous in a way TOS would never have been able to.