Gorn Hits-With-Sticks – The Gorn, a race from Star Trek
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Gorn_Hits-With-Sticks
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
Thank you to Ashley D. for her help with this one.
In Selenopolis, your Wizard discovers that friends and allies from across the Spiral have been captured. Captain Pork is among that number. Pork informs you that Khonsu has allies that need to be defeated before they can rally against the heroes of the Spiral once again.
An Aztecosaur named Gorn Hits-With-Sticks lead the attack on Pork’s ship when the Captain was abducted. Pork’s nemesis is hiding in a hole in the Vivarium. Pork will join you in the fight.
“I shall hit you with sticks!” – Gorn Hits-With-Sticks
Monstrology Tome Description: Occasionally also hits with stones.
“Like most Humans, I seem to have an instinctive revulsion to reptiles. I must fight to remember that this is an intelligent, highly advanced individual, the captain of a starship like myself. Undoubtedly, a dangerously clever opponent.”
– Captain James T. Kirk, 2267 (“Arena”)
The Gorn were a warp-capable, bipedal reptilian species from the Beta Quadrant. Their interstellar government was known as the Gorn Hegemony.
Gorn were a cold-blooded species, with green, rubbery skin, red blood, and an average height of approximately two meters. They tended to be many times stronger than most humanoids. While young Gorn were very agile and fast, adults tended to be slower and less agile but with greater stamina. Nonetheless, a single adult Gorn was able to dispatch a fully armed Starfleet landing party with ease. They, like most cold-blooded species, preferred warmer temperatures and hated the cold. The Gorn had at least two genders: male and female.
In addition to their first appearance in the original Star Trek episode “Arena”, the Gorn have featured prominently in Star Trek: Enterprise “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II”; Star Trek: Lower Decks “Veritas” and as the primary antagonists of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Star Trek S1 Ep18
“Arena” is the 18th episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Gene L. Coon (based on a 1944 short story of the same name by Fredric Brown) and directed by Joseph Pevney, the episode was first broadcast on January 19, 1967.
In the episode, while pursuing a Gorn vessel for an apparently unprovoked attack on a Federation outpost, Captain Kirk is forced by powerful entities to battle the opposing captain.
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