12 Facts About Gorn

Gorn are a fictional extraterrestrial humanoid reptilian species in the American science fiction franchise Star Trek.

Gorn have since appeared, or been mentioned, in various Star Trek books, video games, and other media properties, including the 1973 episode "The Time Trap" of Star Trek: The Animated Series.

Several Gorn spaceships appeared in a 2022 episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, "Memento Mori".

Gorn had contact with the Orion Syndicate as early as 2154.

Gorn appeared in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Time Trap".

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In that episode, the Gorn was an overseer of a group of slaves belonging to the Mirror Universe's Tholians in an attempt to steal technology from the Constitution-class NCC-1764 Defiant which had been transferred into the Mirror Universe from ours.

Gorn was slated to appear in the movie Star Trek: Nemesis as a friend of Worf at Riker's bachelor party, according to an interview given by John Logan to Star Trek Communicator in 2003, but the scene was not in the final version of the film.

The Gorn do not actually appear onscreen in the episode, although several of their ships do.

Gorn eggs are implanted in an Orion refugee, who fights the hatchlings and damages the USS Peregrine, crashing it on an ice planet.

The Enterprise crew use this knowledge to defeat the Gorn before escaping aboard the repaired Peregrine, but not before the Gorn implant eggs in one of the bridge crew, the Aenar engineer Hemmer, forcing him to sacrifice himself by walking out into the planet's cold to destroy the eggs.

Gorn was designed by artist Wah Chang, and is depicted in Arena as a hissing, slow-moving but lethal beast.

The Gorn captain was portrayed by Bill Blackburn and Bobby Clark, and voiced by Ted Cassidy.