⢠The title refers to the Gorn Hegemony, the name of the polity from which the Gorn hail. It was first mentioned on screen in the ENT episode, âBoundâ, but it as used non-canon as early as the 1992 novel, âThe Disinheritedâ.
⢠Captain Betelâs log gives us the stardate as 2344.2. Seeing as weâre in the season finale, letâs look at both seasons.
Season | Episode | Stardate |
---|---|---|
S1 | âStrange New Worldsâ | 1739.12 |
S1 | âStrange New Worldsâ | 2259.42 |
S1 | âChildren of the Cometâ | 2912.4 |
S1 | âGhosts of Illyriaâ | 1224.3 |
S1 | âMemento Moriâ | 3177.3 |
S1 | âMemento Moriâ | 3177.9 |
S1 | âSpock Amokâ | 2341.4 |
S1 | âLift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reachâ | 1943.7 |
S1 | âThe Serene Squallâ | 1997.7 |
S1 | âThe Elysian Kingdomâ | 2341.6 |
S1 | âAll Those Who Wanderâ | 2510.6 |
S1 | âErrand of Mercyâ | 1457.9 |
S2 | âThe Broken Circleâ | 2369.2 |
S2 | âAd Astra per Asperaâ | 2393.8 |
S2 | âTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrowâ | 1581.2 |
S2 | âAmong the Lotus Eatersâ | 1630.1 |
S2 | âAmong the Lotus Eatersâ | 1630.3 |
S2 | âAmong the Lotus Eatersâ | 1632.2 |
S2 | âCharades | 1789.3 |
S2 | âLost in Translationâ | 2394.8 |
S2 | âThose Old Scientistsâ | 2291.6 |
S2 | âUnder the Cloak of Warâ | 1875.4 |
S2 | âUnder the Cloak of Warâ | 1875.8 |
S2 | âUnder the Cloak of Warâ | 1877.5 |
S2 | âSubspace Rhapsodyâ | 2398.3 |
S2 | âHegemonyâ | 2344.2 |
⢠The USS Cayuga is visiting a world outside Federation space, Parnassus Beta, which a colony built on the âsmall town model,â and it was âmade to look like the old Midwestern United States,â and certainly not like a backlot in Pickering, Ontario, just outside Toronto. In âSub Rosaâ, we were introduced to the Caldos colony, which was modelled to look like a Scottish village.
    ⢠Like an authentic midwest American town, the Parnassus Beta colony is having trouble making sure everyone is vaccinated.
    ⢠The Parnassus system is named for the mountain in Greece, and all the businesses we see are also named for Greek mountains or mountain ranges.
    ⢠Despite being outside the Federation, the medical clinic still features the Starfleet Medical caduceus.
⢠Several the officers on the planet are wearing excursion jackets, and we get close up enough on Batel to see that the patch on her shoulder reads âUSS Enterpriseâ.
    ⢠Based on the length of the word, it also looks like ensign Dougâs shoulder patch is also the Enterprise one, we donât get a clear enough look at it that I saw.
⢠Nurse Chapel has tagged along for the ride so she can reach her fellowship with Doctor Korby. Korby was first mentioned in âWhat Are Little Girls Made Ofâ as Chapelâs fiancĂŠe. His expedition will go missing on the planet Exo III approximately two years after this episode.
⢠âIâm not busting into song every ten minutes, so thatâs a minor victory.â Pike is referring to the events of the previous episode, âSubspace Rhapsodyâ.
    ⢠Pike is fidgeting with the Opelian marinerâs keystone Batel gifted him in âAmong the Lotus Eatersâ.
⢠A Gorn Destroyer, previously seen in âMemento Moriâ breaks through the atmosphere.
⢠âIâve seen them up close and personal, and theyâre not hard to understand, Bob. Theyâre monsters.â In âArenaâ Kirk monologued of the Gorn, âLike 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.â
⢠According to Spockâs display, the Cayuga was a Constitution-class Heavy Cruiser, which settles the question as to whether or not it might be a second Sombra-class starship.
⢠We previously saw the Gorn Hunter ship class in âMemento Moriâ.
⢠The Gorn have sent Starfleet an image with a demarcation line separating the Parnasus system. According to Tim Peel, the motion graphics designer for SNW, the intent is that as planets move through the system theyâll end up on the Federation side, tempting Starfleet to engage in rescue or reconnaissance missions, and eventually the planet will cross back into the side claimed by he Gorn, at which point any stragglers will be fair game to use as food, or breeding incubators.
    ⢠According to display of the planet, Parnassus Betaâs year is 402 days. Whether thatâs Earth days, or the 26.5 hour Parnassus Beta days is not explicitly clear.
⢠The crew has duct tapped random bits of scrap to a shuttlecraft so theyâre disguised as debris to fool the Gorn Hunter. In âLower Decksâ Geordi and Taurik marked a shuttle with phaser burns to fool the Cardassians.
⢠âDonât worry, I did this a hundred times during the war.â It was established in âThose Old Scientistsâ that Ortegas served on the front during the Federation-Klingon War.
⢠âI thought you were a test pilot.â Pikeâs first assignment out of the Academy was test pilot, as per âLight and Shadowsâ.
⢠Laâan relates her memories of surviving on the Gorn breeding planet as a child. Laâanâs history with the Gorn was established in the series premiere, âStrange New Worldsâ.
⢠Laâan questions why the Gorn âyounglingsâ arenât fighting for dominance, which they apparently did in her experiences on the breeding planet, as well as when we saw them in âAll Those Who Wanderâ.
⢠Itâs Scotty! From Star Trek! Montgomery Scott first appeared in the second TOS pilot, âWhere No Man Has Gone Beforeâ played by James Doohan. Since then the character has been played by Simon Pegg in the Kelvinverse films, as well as Matthew Wolf briefly offscreen in the alternate future Pike experienced in âA Quality of Mercyâ. Here heâs played by Martin Qinn, who, unlike all the previous actors, is Scottish.
⢠Doctor MâBenga and Ortegas discuss having learned that Nurse Chapel beamed back to the Cayuga right before the Gorn arrived in system. âIâm not sure how Iâm going to tell her sister,â Ortegas mentions having once met Chapelâs identical sister who is named Kristine, and happens to also be a nurse serving in Starfleet.
⢠âIf you had answered like that in my class, I would have given you an A+.â Number One received a C in Peliaâs class at the Academy, as per âLost in Translationâ.
⢠âPlacing those rockets is a near impossible task. No human can do this.â Spock was a huge influence on Captain Solok, introduced in âTake Me Out to the Holosuiteâ, who published over a dozen papers on the relative merits of humans and Vulcans.
    ⢠ââŚI am the only member of the crew who can pull this off.â Apparently itâs not just humans, but also Tellarites, Andorians, Illyrians, Lanthanites, Bolians, Denobulans, and whatever other non-Vulcan crew people are serving aboard the ship whom Spock looks down on.
    ⢠Spock was right; no human could possible place a rocket on to the ship, wait for it to adhere itself, and move on to the next spot to repeat the process, which is what we see Spock doing on the wreck of the Cayuga.
⢠We see an adult Gorn with a rather lengthy tail. Or at least a mechanical tail built into its space suit. In previous episodes where weâve seen adult Gorn â âArenaâ, âThe Time Trapâ, âIn a Mirror Darkly, Part IIâ, âVeritasâ, and âAn Embarrassment of Dooplersâ â none of them have had tails.
    ⢠We also saw a Gorn skeleton in âContext is for Kingsâ and no signs of tail.
⢠Batel has been infected by Gorn eggs. She claims it takes âabout a day and a halfâ for the eggs to mature. According to the records aboard the USS Peregrine in âAll Those Who Wanderâ it took days for the eggs to mature in a human host.
⢠Batel invokes Hemmer and his sacrificing his own life for the good of everyone else in âAll Those Who Wanderâ.
⢠The saucer of the Caygua crashes into the surface of Parnassus Beta, destroying the Gorn interference field tower. Fortunately Chapel was certainly the only one aboard the ship at the time of the attack who survived, and Spock didnât just send a bunch of others still unconscious or trying to work their way off the ship to their deaths.
⢠We see a Gorn transporter effect, and it is green.
⢠Pelia is the only person this episode to call lieutenant Scott âScotty.â
⢠Admiral April orders the Enterprise to withdraw from the Parnassus system, despite the fact that Starfleet officers, and human colonists, were just beamed up by the Gorn. In âSaints of Imperfectionâ Pike gave a speech: âStarfleet is a promise; I give my life for you, you give your life for me, and no one gets left behind.â
⢠In the final scene of the episode, Scotty and Pelia are working on his jury-rigged Gorn transponders in sick bay when the eggs in Batelâs arm hatch, exploding out out and spattering emerald viscera all over Scottyâs face. We get an extreme close up on his hundred yard stare, as he whispers hoarsely, âItâs green,â echoing lines spoken in âBy Any Other Nameâ, and âRelicsâ.
So authentic!