RE: I think this is an old interview | Report this post to moderator
By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:39:58 on Sep 14, 2004

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I don't believe Arena was the first contact with the Gorn, however, as I think both Spock and Kirk were familiar with the race. I haven't seen the episode in years so I may be wrong.

In the episode, once the Metrons have taken control of both the 1701 and the Gorn ship and removed both Captains to a place that they prepared for them, there is a monologue by Kirk that notes:

"I face the creature the Metrons called a 'Gorn'. Large... Reptilian."

Thus he's never heard of them before.

I think my point here has been (sortof using your post as a place to comment... ;-)), aside from the fact that this probably won't happen anyway, is that ENT can't just do "name-dropping" without doing a little research behind those names that get "dropped".

There was an earlier name-dropping interview with Coto, et al... ie., "Colonel Green" and his potential appearance during ENT's time. If some plot device time-travel had occurred or if Green had been shown in historical flashback, then fine. But like the Gorn, there needs to be a some research behind who was where, when, and for what reason (was it a 23rd century "first contact"? Was it a visit for a trading agreement or establishing or checking in on a colony?) before actually crafting stories with them during ENT's time.

This is why I have what I have as the 2nd part of my .sig that was from a comment that tomba1701 had made that was an illustration of name-dropping gone mad. ;-)

Sussman has been successfully able to find some folks who were mentioned in TOS but never shown and who had been suggested to have been "known" for some time and not part of a Kirk first-contact situation (eg., the name mention in TOS "The Changeling" of the "Mallurians", who were never shown in the ep, but whose planet was the 1701's destination for a routine check-in, where the crew ends up discovering that something - later confirmed as the mechanical entity named "Nomad" - had killed everyone and everything on the planet).

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