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kangsin
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i love my gorn the only true reptilian / dragon race in sto i am surprised they do not have tails like the caitians fereasians in short what do think should gorns have a tail ?
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Sorry
Carry on....
http://files1.guildlaunch.net/guild/library/130930/Star%20Trek%20The%20Animated%20Caitian.jpg
Gorn:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ij1RRWTHo4Y/TuFMVjq3KkI/AAAAAAAAEws/cpEu0oUSPQs/s1600/Gorn+CGI.JPG
spot the dfference?;)
Actually the Gorn do have a tail, but...
http://www.70disco.com/images/gornbio.gif
What kind of a logic is that?
Do you consider everything that's not evolved from monkeys a beast?
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i would love to see more females in the empire then just klingon and orion.
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Then let me put lipstick on my gorn dammit!
lol No, they're not. They have males and females, with the females being the larger, stronger and more aggressive of the two (most of the Gorn marines tend to be female for this reason). Other than that, there's not much visual difference between the two.
LOL... tks!
Now sshhh.... they are having a serious conversation about Gorn tail.
I read that on Mem Beta too, but they don't even give a source where this is supposed to come from.
*EDIT: I found practically the same piece of text here as well
http://ghdar.tripod.com/anatomy.htm
but the question now becomes who copied it from whom?*
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Well, I checked the SFC1 manual and it's not to be found there, so it's either FASA (meaning it's irrelevant) or some fan was particularly creative and invented the whole nonsense.
Then why is no novel no novel listed as a reference, only the FASA "Demand of Honor" RPG moule?
(Which is even less than soft-canon thses days, it's even contrary to canon.)
Since you seem to know more, name a novel where it's mentioned please.
Re-read the Memory Beta article, and look at the references at the end of each paragraph; some mention episodes, some mention novels, some mention comics, etc.
You have to understand that, with a race like the Gorn that hardly gets any film time due to budgetary constraints, their profile has to be made up along the way in various formats like video games, comics, novels, etc. When you put all those together, you come up with a pretty good background on the Gorn. The same goes for the Tholians.
As far as novels, I remember them playing a significant part in one of the Typhon Pact novels...I think it was the second or third in the series.
Anyway...my point being, there *is* some contradictory information about the Gorn here and there, but if you consider the fact that every single novel/game/comic that mentions them, agrees with what I've said, I think it's safe to use that as a piece of solid information.
Look at the sources, sort out any conflicting information, and you can pretty much count on the 100% concurrent information being accurate.
You just told me the obvious, however the part about the females HAS NO SOURCE LISTED.
I know that.
I also know the background material from the FASA RPG, Star Fleet Battles etc.
And it's all not even soft-canon, it's non-canon.
In case of Star Fleet Battles, the creators even put a specific note in their Prime Directive RPG, which begins with the sentence "This is not Star Trek".
Because it's all set in the Star Fleet universe.
Except you can't even point at specific material that agrees with what you say.
You just claim so and basically say "it's in there somewhere, just look hard enough".
I was unable to dig up anything that supports your claim to date.
So please, point me to the actual source.
Conflicting does not even begin to cover it.
The FASA RPG states by the time of TMP, the Gorn and Romulans had never met each other but had heard about them from the Federation while Star Fleet Battles states the Gorn and Romulans hate each other and have fought numerous wars with each other.
Same goes for the Tholians: in SFB they are extragalactic refugees that brought their own Dyson Sphere with them, in the Pocket Book novels they are indignous to their space.
When you weed out the material that is conflicting, you end up with precisely nothing.
I can't even find any evidence the Gorn have anything called "marines".
Believe what you want to believe. *shrugs* If you want to split hairs and get technical over it, the only thing technically canon about Gorn is that they're reptilian, and can be killed with bamboo bazookas by captains with torn shirts. And that one of them named Slar worked for the Tholians as a slave-driver in the mirror universe.
There are times when it makes sense to take the available sources at their word, when they're the only sources available. For example, if one of them said, "Gorn are also capable of natural warp travel, as they are hatched with a built-in warp core, and their legs double as nacelles", it'd be something to question. The stuff in the books, games, and comics makes perfect sense, IMHO...so why sweat 'canon'?
After all, Star Trek Online isn't canon at all...and neither are half the ships in it.
But, getting back to the original point, if you read the book I mentioned, one of them refers to his made as 'she'. If they were hermaphrodites (which isn't mentioned anywhere), they probably wouldn't put much, if any, emphasis on gender.
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.