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One had to wonder why they chose to go this route.
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Let me guess. It might be because they wanted to pay homage to TOS but took one look at this 1960s era costume and realized they had to update the character design for 2020s television.
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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?
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They didn't shit all over canon (although in this case that wouldn't have been a bad thing). They updated a character design so it that would actually work in 2023 instead of something that people would laugh at. It has proven to be an enormously popular and effective choice amongst the majority of the fans (at least those who aren't worried about sticking as closely as possible to a 1960s television show; I mean there are people here seriously complaining that 1960s Kirk wouldn't win a fight against one of these lizard people today as if that should somehow be any kind of consideration for the writers/producers).
Also, didn't you say you had given up on the show after last week and wouldn't watch it again?