'Strange New Worlds' Made a Classic Star Trek Species Even More Terrifying

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has established a pattern in its first season: each episode features a standalone adventure that focuses on a member of the U.S.S. Enterprise. That pattern extends to this week's episode, "Memento Mori," which features the return of the reptilian race known as the Gorn.

COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY While this isn't the first time that Strange New Worlds has tackled characters and concepts from Star Trek: The Original Series, "Memento Mori" puts a unique spin on the Gorn. According to La'an, no one who has ever seen the Gorn lives to tell the tale — with herself being the sole exception. As if that wasn't frightening enough, the Gorn never make a physical appearance in the episode.

Writers Davy Perez and Beau DeMayo, alongside director Dan Lin, stage "Memento Mori" as a mini-horror movie of sorts, making for a rather tense hour of television. The Gorn are dogged in their pursuit of the Enterprise; they cripple the ship's weapon systems and heavily damage other systems including the medical bay and shields, which leaves the ship at their mercy.

Keeping in line with the horror elements, the episode focuses on La'an's repressed trauma as the sole survivor of a Gorn attack on her colony ship. When Spock mind-melds with her in order to gather intel about how the Gorn communicate, he see the damage the Gorn are capable of: bloody bodies litter the ground and smoke clouds the air. The episode also continues the series' exploration of La'an as a character by breaking down her emotional walls.

The Enterprise manages to finally defeat the Gorn ships, but the reptilian aliens still remain a major threat to Starfleet. With Strange New Worlds hitting its halfway point, it remains to be seen if the Gorn will make another appearance in the season's back half or the upcoming second season. Hopefully, "Memento Mori" serves as an example of what to do with the Gorn going forward, not just in Strange New Worlds but in other Trek media.

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