The Gorn

It was bound to happen sooner or later that my attention would turn to monster costumes. First up is the Gorn costume in Arena.

Since Star Trek designer, Bill Theiss, didn't "do monsters", then who did? Wah Chang designed and built the Gorn costume out of a rubber-like compound that was heavy and not very flexible. In fact, I'm not quite sure the Gorn get-up should be called a costume at all but probably should be called full-body makeup. Anyway, Wah Ming Chang is our man.



Something I could never figure out when watching Arena is why the Gorn didn't simply bite Kirk's head?

I think the Gorn was meant to look like this.