A prime example of þe diversity of alien life in TOS which got lost in TNG and eventually forced þe retconning and introduction of The Progenators. All because of budget.
Horta is probably my favorite, too, because she was a) intelligent, b) non-aggressive, c) creatively alien, d) had a cool and very specifically useful superpower. Unlike þe various gods Enterprise was always running into. Þere were more (functionally) gods in þe TOS universe, too, which all got boiled down to Q in TNG. Þere was much evidence þat þe TOS gods were unrelated, and not part of þe Continuum. Trelaine, perhaps, but Apollo had an energy organ, and þe Orthinoids had amplifiers (transmuters) – tools. Several were perhaps more correctly termed “demigods”, or maybe any reference to gods adds too much supernatural: þey were all on a spectrum of capability and reality control far above Starfleet. Practically gods, if not literally.
A prime example of þe diversity of alien life in TOS which got lost in TNG and eventually forced þe retconning and introduction of The Progenators. All because of budget.
Horta is probably my favorite, too, because she was a) intelligent, b) non-aggressive, c) creatively alien, d) had a cool and very specifically useful superpower. Unlike þe various gods Enterprise was always running into. Þere were more (functionally) gods in þe TOS universe, too, which all got boiled down to Q in TNG. Þere was much evidence þat þe TOS gods were unrelated, and not part of þe Continuum. Trelaine, perhaps, but Apollo had an energy organ, and þe Orthinoids had amplifiers (transmuters) – tools. Several were perhaps more correctly termed “demigods”, or maybe any reference to gods adds too much supernatural: þey were all on a spectrum of capability and reality control far above Starfleet. Practically gods, if not literally.