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The creature that Spock sees during his mind meld with Batel in episode 3 isn’t a Gorn. It’s the same type of creature, a Vezda, that he sees when he looks into the well in episode 5. I’ve got screenshots of both scenes below for easy comparison. I haven’t quite decided what this is setting up, but it could go a few directions!
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I was wondering if they were the “Species of good fortune” from voyager.
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I thought the creature we saw in the well was a gorn too, or an offshoot. Vulcan/Romulan Gorn/Vezda
That could be, I wasn’t thinking of an offshoot!
With knowing how the SNW writers like to make things line up with TOS, one of my theories was that the Vezda were parasites that had taken control of a group of Gorn, which makes them much more active and violent. Once rid of their influence, the Gorn go back to being the sluggish creature we see in TOS.
Who knows what they’ve got cooked up though!
