Gorn Hegemony

The Gorn Hegemony was the governmental body of the Gorn, a reptilian species first encountered by the United Federation of Planets in the mid-23rd century. The five systems were part of their domain. (ENT: "Bound")

History

The Orion privateer Harrad-Sar had dealings with the Hegemony prior to 2154, but declined to elaborate to the crew of Enterprise NX-01, merely saying "The less said about them, the better." (ENT: "Bound")

Gorn First Contact

Unconfirmed first contact report for the Gorn, found in the personnel file of La'An Noonien Singh

In the 2230s or 2240s, the Gorn attacked and captured the SS Puget Sound, a Federation colony ship, and deposited its crew and passengers on a Gorn breeding planet to be hunted for sport or eaten alive by their hatchlings. La'An Noonien-Singh was the sole survivor of the incident, and related the story to Starfleet; this was the first documented encounter with the Gorn, although it was not considered an official first contact. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")

In 2259, the Gorn attacked and massacred the colony of Finibus III, and then attacked the USS Enterprise when it arrived in the system. During the subsequent battle, the Enterprise was badly damaged and lost seven crew members, but managed to destroy three Gorn hunters before evading a destroyer using the system's black hole as cover. With the Gorn confirmed to be raiding targets in Federation space, Captain Christopher Pike resolved to be more prepared for the next hostile encounter. (SNW: "Memento Mori")

Gorn Hegemony exspansion star chart

Map of Gorn Hegemony expansion in 2260

In 2259, Federation star charts were denoting the location of the Gorn Hegemony in the Beta Quadrant. The lettering and border outlines were colored a shade of green. The Gorn then sent a destroyer and three hunters to the Shangdi system where it destroyed the USS Stardiver. The Gorn group then moved on to Parnassus Beta. There, they destroyed the USS Cayuga and attacked the colony. There, the Gorn established a interference field and sent a message to the Starfleet showing a Demarcation line between the Hegemony and the Federation. The USS Enterprise under Pike were ordered by Admiral Robert April to stay on the Federation side of the line despite the chance that Captain Marie Batel, her remaining crew and colonist might still be alive. (SNW: "Subspace Rhapsody", "Hegemony")

Pike led several volunteers in a rescue mission. Together, they found a Gorn beacon and several hatchlings looking for food. They were able to find Lt. Montgomery Scott from the Stardiver. With Captain Pike's landing party, he led them to meet up with Captain Batel and her surviving crew at a diner. The Enterprise under Commander Chin-Riley believed it could use the Cayuga's saucer section to destroy the Gorn Beacon. Spock undertook the mission to plant rockets on the saucer section to direct it toward the beacon. He used a EV suit to board the Cayuga's saucer. At the time, Nurse Chapel was still aboard and tried to contact him and the Enterprise to no avail. Chapel got a EV suit and made her way towards the bridge. En route she saw a adult Gorn examining the Cayuga's systems. The Gorn attacked Spock and disarmed him after he planted the rockets. However, Chapel was able to shoot the Gorn. Spock was able to damage the Gorn's suit and kill it. The two of them were able to fly off the as the saucer section was propelled towards the Gorn beacon. They were then beamed aboard the Enterprise

Pike, Scott and Batel were able to reach Scott's shuttle. However, a Gorn came but spared them due to Batel being impregnated by the Gorn. They then saw the Gorn beacon tower destroyed by the Cayuga's saucer. They were able to use the shuttle to return to the Enterprise and place Batel in stasis. Pike then ordered the colonists to be beamed up. However, all the colonists had been taken by the Gorn and Starfleet ordered the Enterprise to withdraw. (SNW: "Hegemony")

Gorn captain

A Gorn Captain, a member of the Gorn Hegemony

Official first contact finally took place eight years later, in 2267. This encounter with the Hegemony was also hostile, as the Gorn were claiming Cestus III – a world which was then occupied by a Federation settlement – as their own. Despite this, the two powers had resolved the conflict over Cestus III by the 2370s, when a Human settlement thrived there. (TOS: "Arena"; DS9: "Family Business")

The Zhat Vash, a Romulan cabal, was said to operate in the Gorn Hegemony as of 2399. (PIC: "Maps and Legends")

Stellar cartography

In 2324, the location of this galactic power was labeled in a chart used during a Section 31 Alpha Team briefing. (Star Trek: Section 31)

Appendices

Background information

The name of this government was revealed in "Bound", although there was apparently no official UFP contact with the Gorn until Kirk's era. Federation-Gorn relations were described, in the Star Trek Encyclopedia, as "cordial" during the 2370s. The name "Gorn Hegemony" had been used in non-canon books and games for years before this episode was written, however.

The Gorn Hegemony symbol first appeared in canon in PRO: "Masquerade", but originates in the 1997 Starfleet Academy video game.

Apocrypha

The Star Trek: Star Charts places Gorn Hegemony space in the Beta Quadrant, in the region of Gamma Orionis and the Delta Triangle. (page 64)

In the novel Articles of the Federation, one of the characters says that the crew of the USS Enterprise convinced the Gorn to join the Federation Alliance and fight against the Dominion in the war. This is from the graphic novel "The Gorn Crisis" by Kevin J. Anderson and illustrated by Igor Kordey. But in the game manual for Star Trek: Bridge Commander, it is stated that the Gorn sided with the Dominion. The Star Trek: Destiny novel Mere Mortals by David Mack establishes that the Gorn Hegemony had an embassy to the Federation located in Berlin and its head of government was the Gorn Imperator. In A Singular Destiny, the Gorn allied themselves with the Romulan Star Empire, the Tholians, and others antagonistic towards the Federation and Klingons.

In Star Trek Online, by the early 25th century, the Klingons had conquered the Hegemony after learning that their leaders had been replaced by Species 8472 infiltrators, and absorbed the Gorn into the Empire. The storyline of the game also states that a monarch, King Slathis, was the head of the government.

In the 2013 video game Star Trek, which is set in the alternate reality, the Gorn are given an origin story as an alien race originating from another galaxy and are portrayed as expansionists. One of the races subjugated to the Gorn are the Lymax (β).

The twenty-fourth issue of the Star Trek: Ongoing comic book series features a group of Gorn who had rebelled and settled on the planet Parthenon 559 wanting to live in peace. But because of the previous encounter as mentioned above, the Humans who came to mine the planet reacted with hostility. Kirk resolved everything and forced the Humans off of the planet after learning more about the Gorn in the process. The issue also potentially provides another origin story for the Gorn Hegemony.

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