The Romulans in the Star Fleet Universe held a long-standing enmity with the Gorn Confederation, but their old " Eagle " series warships were no match against the advanced Gorn warships.

* The Gorn captain's vocalizations were provided by actor Ted Cassidy, who also appeared in person in the Star Trek episode " What Are Little Girls Made Of?

* Parts of the fight between the Gorn captain and Captain Kirk were parodied in the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ," pitting William Shatner against Leela ( Katey Sagal ).

A total of 15 different Proletkult periodicals were produced over the course of the organization's short existence, including most importantly Proletarskaia kultura ( Proletarian Culture — 1918 to 1921 ) and Gorn ( Furnace — 1918 to 1923 ).

The Gorn that Mego produced was a brown Lizard head ( identical to the Marvel Comics villain ) on a brown body wearing a Klingon outfit.

* A Gorn appeared in the first DC Comics run of Star Trek, in 1982.

* One single Gorn named Lizorr appeared in the The New Adventures of He-Man, in the Comics and as an Action-figure

In Star Trek, the Gorn are humanoid reptiles from the Gorn Hegemony.

The name of their government was established as the Gorn Hegemony in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Bound " although, in the games " Star Trek: Starfleet Command " and " Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War " The Gorn's government was referred to as the " Gorn Confederation ".

The Gorn have become one of the most popular hypothetical bioforms to appear on Star Trek, due to the striking design by artist Wah Chang, and the Gorn's memorable personality.

In 2005, an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise featured a Gorn ( albeit in the Mirror Universe ) in the episode " In a Mirror, Darkly Part II ".

* A Gorn appeared in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode The Time Trap.

* Gorn appear in the Nintendo game Star Trek: 25th Anniversary.

* Gorn appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation book # 32, Requiem.

* The Gorn homeworld and government chamber are shown in the " Star Trek: The Next Generation trade paperback comic book " The Gorn Crisis "

* Gorn are available as one of the playable races for the Klingon Empire in the PC game Star Trek Online.

* A life size Gorn statue was on exhibit at the Las Vegas Hilton's Star Trek museum.

* A Gorn was slated to appear in the movie " Star Trek: Nemesis " as a friend of Worf.

* The Gorn are set to appear in the 2013 video game Star Trek, set in the alternate universe of the 2009 Star Trek film.

Note that in the Star Fleet Universe, there is a distinction between Gorn ( singular ) and Gorns ( plural ).

* In the MMORPG Star Trek Online the largest class of Gorn warship is the Balaur Dreadnought.

He also voiced the Gorn in the Star Trek episode " Arena ".

The triangular rock summit can be clearly seen in, for example, an Outer Limits episode called " The Zanti Misfits ", in " Arena ", an original series Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk rolls a boulder onto a reptiloid alien called a Gorn, and throughout a Bonanza episode called " Between Heaven and Earth ".

Notable changes include new space shots with a CGI Enterprise, and other new models ( for example, a Gorn ship is shown in Arena ), redone matte background shots, and other minor touches such as tidying up viewscreens.

This was as much due to political infighting as to Gorn sabotage.

* Gorn, Elliott J. Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One ( New York, OUP USA, 2009 ).

* M. H. Gorn, The Universal Man: Theodore von Kármán's Life in Aeronautics ( Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1992 ).

* Cayton, Mary Kupiec, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds.

In the episode “ Arena ” the Metrons supply Captain Kirk and the Gorn commander with a Translator-Communicator, allowing conversation between them to be possible.

As another source of her transformation into an organizer, biographer Elliott Gorn draws out her early Roman Catholic connection – including bringing to light her relationship to her estranged brother, Father William Richard Harris, Roman Catholic teacher, writer, pastor, and Dean of the Niagara Peninsula ( in St Catharine's ) in the Diocese of Toronto, who was " among the best-known clerics in Ontario.

After transferring to the USS Defiant, which had drifted into the Mirror Universe, he leads a team to attempt capture of a Gorn stowaway on the ship.

Reed's team is killed when the Gorn detonates a bomb in their path.

The Gorn had contact with the Orion Syndicate as early as 2154.

Although the Gorn made territorial claims, the Federation had a settlement there in 2371, indicating tension later softened.

For years, " Arena " marked the only live-action appearance of the Gorn, although the race was " name dropped " from time to time.

In that episode, the Gorn ( whose name was Slar ) was an overseer of a group of slaves belonging to the Mirror Universe's Tholians in an attempt to steal technology from the Constitution-class NCC-1764 Defiant which had been lured into the Mirror Universe from ours.

Slar also moved much faster than the Gorn Captain Kirk fought.

He drew analogies between his own practice of hypnotism and various forms of Hindu yoga meditation and other ancient spiritual practices, especially those involving voluntary burial and apparent human hibernation.

There are many locations of stone ritual structures, refined burial practices and early Torii that lend to the continuity of primal Shinto.

Also there was an increasing influence of Korean trade and culture which profoundly changed the practices of government structure, social structure, burial practices, and warfare.

Additional archeological work is providing information about African-American burial practices.

Fleming, in his 1969 paper " The Myth of the Mother Goddess ", questioned the practice of identifying neolithic figures as female when they weren't clearly distinguished as male, and took issue with other aspects of the " Goddess " interpretation of Neolithic stone carvings and burial practices.

At about 2800 BCE any possible evidence of such practices disappeared, though echoes are perhaps to be seen in the burial of statues of servants in Old Kingdom tombs.

Though the Zapotecs are now largely Catholics, some of their ancient beliefs and practices, such as the burial of the dead with valuables, still survive.

Particular religious practices are recognized by the WHO and UN as unethical, including female genital mutilation ( FGM ), sati ( burning the widow on the husband's burial pyre ), polygamy, child brides, and human sacrifice.

Human burial practices are the manifestation of the human desire to demonstrate " respect for the dead ", and to prevent the possibilities of revenants harming the living.

Some burial practices are heavily ritualized ; others are simply practical.

In nonstandard burial practices, such as mass burial, the body may be positioned arbitrarily.

Bahá ' í burial law prescribes both the location of burial and burial practices and precludes cremation of the dead.

This is in contrast with practices in Denmark where the dead were buried below small mounds with a vertical stratigraphy: the oldest below the ground, the second above this grave, and occasionally even a third burial above those.

In 1858, just to the south of the town, a large Anglo-Roman cemetery was found, showing a mix of pagan and Christian burial practices.

Other practices may have included ancestor worship as god pots and incense burners have been found at burial sites.

The Beothuk followed elaborate burial practices.

* History of burial practices

Hohokam burial practices varied over time.

The fragmented, localized and autonomous cultures of reduced complexity are noted for such diversity of their material cultures in pottery styles ( conservative in Athens, eclectic at Knossos ), burial practices and settlement structures, that generalizations about a " Dark Age society " are misleading.

Around 900 BC, burial practices become more elaborate, a reflection of increasing social stratification.

New temples became centers of worship with tomb burial practices slowly becoming outlawed.