Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' executive producers confirm that they retconned the Gorn and how it affects Captain James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) legendary fight with the Gorn in Star Trek: The Original Series season 1's "Arena."
At the end of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 9 , "Terrarium," a Metron (Dariush Zaheh) reveals that they manipulated the Gorn and Lieutenant Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia). The Metron have a bizarre interest in experimenting with humans and the Gorn, and how they interact with each other.
TrekMovie spoke to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers about season 3. Goldsman and Myers confirm that "Terrarrium" suggests that the memories of the Gorn have been "tampered with by the Metr