Gorn (Star Trek) - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

• A Gorn appeared in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode The Time Trap.
• Gorn burial practices were discussed in an issue of Marvel Comics' Star Trek Unlimited.
• A Gorn appeared in the first DC Comics run of Star Trek, in 1982. Bones comments that he doesn't have any tranquilizer strong enough to knock out a Gorn.
• A mini-campaign with a Gorn enemy and ally appear in the SNES game and PC game Starfleet Academy. There are video cutscenes featuring a Gorn, portrayed using a puppet. The ships are also playable in skirmish mode, and multiplayer games.
• Gorn appear in the 2005 novel STAR TREK - Starfleet Corps of Engineers #44: Where Time Stands Still, a sequel to the animated episode mentioned above.
• Gorn appear in the PC game Starfleet Command.
• Gorn ships appear in the PC game Klingon Academy. They are also playable in skirmish mode.
• Gorn ships appeared in the FASA Starship Combat Simulator. Lead alloy versions of the MA-12 and the BH-2 were available in the late 1980s.
• Gorn appear in the Nintendo game Star Trek: 25th Anniversary.
• Gorn appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation book #32, Requiem.
• The Gorn homeworld and government chamber are shown in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation trade paperback comic book "The Gorn Crisis"
• A Gorn, with a name that sounds like "Rrrk", manages a bar in Arcturus (a city, planet and star all with the same name) in the novel The Lost Years.
• Gorn are available as one of the playable races for the Klingon Empire in the PC game Star Trek Online.
• A life size Gorn statue was on exhibit at the Las Vegas Hilton's Star Trek museum. Its current whereabouts are unknown.
• Gorn action figures have been available over the years including the famed Mego line from the 1970s, and of course appeared in that lines television commercials.
• A Gorn was slated to appear in the movie "Star Trek: Nemesis" as a friend of Commander Worf.
• "Mythbusters", a Discovery Channel TV show that uses elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories, set out to prove whether of not it was possible for Captain Kirk to have constructed an effective bamboo cannon that could have injured a Gorn, as depicted in the climax of "Arena". Unfortunately, the answer was no. Available Earth bamboo (anyway) was not strong enough to withstand the explosion. While Kirk would have been badly injured or killed, the Gorn would have been only slightly injured.
• A Gorn is shown reading "Gorn" magazine and sitting in Sheldon's spot in The Big Bang Theory season 4 episode "The Apology Insufficiency".
• A Gorn is shown at the conclusion of a dream by Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory Season 5 episode "The Transporter Malfunction".
• In the film Paul, the protagonists are shown playing with a Gorn mask.
• One single Gorn named Lizorr appeared in the The New Adventures of He-Man, in the Comics and as an Action-Figure.
• The Gorn appeared in Robot Chicken Season 6 "In Bed Surrounded by Loved Ones", in which Kirk has "stage 3-space Herpes" and contacts the people he had sex with. One such encounter includes The Gorn, too wich they briefly fight before making out.
• The Gorn are set to appear in the 2013 video game Star Trek, set in the alternate universe of the 2009 Star Trek film. Taking place between the first film and its sequel, the Gorn appear as enemies attacking the New Vulcan colony.