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Originally Posted by Frazod
Because, as I've said repeatedly, there's no way Kirk could beaten one of these things alone and unarmed. It would have run him down and killed him instantly. The end. Also, the Enterprise crew knew almost nothing about the Gorn during the TOS episode. That's completely out the window now as well.
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You beat me to it. This discussion piqued my curiosity and I broke out my DVD of Arena to see if I remembered what I thought I did. And you're correct, Kirk and company had no clue who the Gorn were.
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As Listo and I have both said, several times, had they just made this a newly encountered, different race, we'd have no issues with it at all.
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One had to wonder why they chose to go this route. They seem to want it both ways. They say they don't want to let canon get in the way of story telling. OK, that's fine. But why go out of their way to shit all over canon when it wasn't necessary at all? The Gorn as seen in TOS were a one-off species, certainly not tied to the bigger fabric of Star Trek mythos. So why go back to them to use in SNW? Only to COMPLETELY rewrite them. What's the point exactly?
As you said, they could have done EXACTLY what they did, told the EXACT same story, called them the "whatever species" and they could have done their story and not messed with the past history at the same time.