The ninth episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is an action-packed riff on Ridley Scott's "Alien." In the episode, several Enterprise crewmembers are left behind on a snowy planet to investigate a distress beacon. While the Enterprise flies away to deal with another mission, the main characters find the ruined husk of the U.S.S. Peregrine, and hundreds of dead crewmates. Soon, the Enterprise crew learns that Gorn eggs had been laid all over the planet, and that the vicious Gorn babies -- miniature murder lizards -- laid waste to the people on the Peregrine. The visiting Enterprise crewmates are next.
One of the conceits of the Gorn is that they, like in "Alien," implant their eggs inside the bodies of others. The babies incubate inside another person's torso, then burst out by force. This reproductive foible is first demonstrated with the body of an alien nicknamed Buckley,...
One of the conceits of the Gorn is that they, like in "Alien," implant their eggs inside the bodies of others. The babies incubate inside another person's torso, then burst out by force. This reproductive foible is first demonstrated with the body of an alien nicknamed Buckley,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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