Where are the Gorn in other Star Trek series?

[erotavlas]

Why have we never seen the Gorn appear in other series like The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, or Deep Space Nine, etc. I never really watched The Original Series so I never even knew of this species until I saw them on Strange New Worlds.

If the Gorn are so violent and dangerous as depicted in Strange New Worlds, what the heck happened to them later on as time progressed in the Trek universe. Did the federation defeat them or what?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Why have we never seen the Gorn appear in other series like The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, or Deep Space Nine, etc. I never really watched The Original Series so I never even knew of this species until I saw them on Strange New Worlds.

If the Gorn are so violent and dangerous as depicted in Strange New Worlds, what the heck happened to them later on as time progressed in the Trek universe. Did the federation defeat them or what?

They get named dropped from time to time. And actually appear in Enterprise and Lower Decks.
They're out there menacing ships that aren't the Enterprise.

 

[fireproof78]

Why have we never seen the Gorn appear in other series like The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, or Deep Space Nine, etc. I never really watched The Original Series so I never even knew of this species until I saw them on Strange New Worlds.

If the Gorn are so violent and dangerous as depicted in Strange New Worlds, what the heck happened to them later on as time progressed in the Trek universe. Did the federation defeat them or what?

Fighting the Tholians, Kzinti and other regional powers.

They get mentioned sometimes, but since TNG worked to distance itself from TOS their few appearances are no surprise.

 

[Mudd]

La'an tracked and killed every last motherfucking gorn.

 

[Finn]

Pike got the Talosians to keep them at bay just in time. Yep, by the time of TNG, the Gorn are all living in an illusion, preventing them from being a threat.

 

[Yistaan]

I know if the Gorn tried some of that nonsense they pulled in this week's SNW episodes on the Klingons or Romulans, they wouldn't have a homeworld left, just a burnt crisp. Then again we see they're still around in Lower Decks...

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Why have we never seen the Gorn appear in other series like The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, or Deep Space Nine, etc. I never really watched The Original Series so I never even knew of this species until I saw them on Strange New Worlds.

If the Gorn are so violent and dangerous as depicted in Strange New Worlds, what the heck happened to them later on as time progressed in the Trek universe. Did the federation defeat them or what?

The Federation seems to have made peace with them at some point given that by the 24th century Cestus III belongs to the Federation as a colony. The Gorn are still active as of the 32nd century as well, mentioned in the first episode of Discovery season 3 as having destroyed 2 light years of subspace trying to create an alternative to warp drive.

My take on the Gorn is that they are hyper-aggressive as juveniles to ensure only the strongest survive to adulthood and have ravenous appetites because they have to go through an intensive growth spurt. However once they reach adulthood and their brains become more developed they are capable of higher learning and reasoning.

 

[bdub76]

They looked really goofy in TOS like something you'd see in a Godzilla movie or Power Ranger series. I bet the other series thought that with the available resources they weren't worth revisiting. Look how long it took for Doctor Who to bring back the Sea Devils, and it was still a failure. Lots of risk here with little reward if it goes south.

 

[NCC-73515]

In the Kelvin game...

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

The implication to date (meaning it’s all subject to change in the event of future episodes) is that at THIS point in time, the pre-Arena period, the Gorn, or at least those expanding beyond the borders of their space, are unwilling to engage in dialogue with other species (perhaps not seeing “mammals” as worth anything other than prey and mobile breeding sacs). But, as a result of the encounter in Arena, some sort of accord was reached - maybe the defeat of their captain by Kirk establishes the Federation as stronger from the Gorn perspective and now they will accept the mammals as equals, not meat.

 

[thribs]

Minding their business I assume.

 

[Mudd]

They're cowering somewhere waiting for La'an Noonien-Singh to die.

 

[Timofnine]

The Gorn are the play things of the Metron’s who have them on a relatively tight leash…. Unless anybody encroaches on their territory of course and wishes an attempt at First Contact via trial by combat or wedding…. They are saving the wedding for Seven of Nine though in the 25th century. The Metron’s will fail their own ‘wedding’ test and Seven of Nine, Captain of the Enterprise, will be triumphant opening successful relations with both the Gorn and the Metron’s.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

I'm wondering now what species Pike was referring to when he asked Leland about being up to his ass in gators on Cestus Three?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm wondering now what species Pike was referring to when he asked Leland about being up to his ass in gators on Cestus Three?

Saurians

 

[Kor]

Why have we never seen the Gorn appear in other series like The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, or Deep Space Nine, etc. I never really watched The Original Series so I never even knew of this species until I saw them on Strange New Worlds.

If the Gorn are so violent and dangerous as depicted in Strange New Worlds, what the heck happened to them later on as time progressed in the Trek universe. Did the federation defeat them or what?

A Gorn slavemaster named Slar did appear in the Enterprise episode "In a Mirror Darkly, Part II." Before that, there was a vaguely ominous mention of the Gorn in the ENT episode "Bound." In DS9 "Trials and Tribble-ations", Sisko said he wanted to ask Kirk about fighting the Gorn on Cestus III (though to be accurate, that's not where the fight actually happened). Lorca had a Gorn skeleton which was seen a number of times in Star Trek: Discovery. And then there is NuMcCoy's renowned line in Star Trek: Into Darkness about how he once performed a Caesarean section on a pregnant Gorn, delivering octuplets. And they bite. Also the Gorn have appeared in Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Kor

 

[Yistaan]

The Gorn were the subject of a massive Section 31 project, one of the darkest chapters of Federation history. In the midst of mass hysterical fears over Gorn egg implantation, whole colonies of Gorn were beamed into prison ships that initially appeared to be egg implantation heaven--thousands of helpless humans ready to be implanted with Gorn eggs.

The captured Gorn had their fun on the victims who were ultimately revealed to be holographic facsimiles of humans. Once the Gorn implanted eggs on the fake victims, the temperatures of their prison brutally reduced to below freezing levels and their nervous systems were aggravated severely, just enough to cause Gorn extreme pain but not kill them. Section 31 conducted countless such operations on all levels of Gorn society, until all Gorn were conditioned to avoid implanting eggs in outsiders due to the indoctrinated fear of immediate painful punishment, even long after Section 31 had ceased these operations.

 

[F. King Daniel]

This hyping up of the Gorn as the scatiest MFers in the galaxy just makes Lorca more badass for having a Gorn skeleton in his man cave.

 

[Kelso]

In DS9 "Trials and Tribble-ations", Sisko said he wanted to ask Kirk about fighting the Gorn on Cestus III (though to be accurate, that's not where the fight actually happened).

Technically, Kirk did fight the Gorn on Cestus III.

The fight on Cestus III might've been of more interest to Sisko than the subsequent mano a mano fight because Kasidy's brother lived there.

 

[Nerys Myk]

This hyping up of the Gorn as the scatiest MFers in the galaxy just makes Lorca more badass for having a Gorn skeleton in his man cave.

You should see the seats in his private shuttle.