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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.
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...
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.