Every sci-fi show with a budget eventually does, “Alien tech, but organic.”
If you want to talk about Star Trek borrowing from Mass Effect, the final threat from the end of Picard Season 1 is a way closer plot beat than the surface level Gorn aesthetics.
At the end of the day, fiction is a reflection of the time it was written in, and some elements are just going to echo throughout genre fiction.
Every sci-fi show with a budget eventually does, “Alien tech, but organic.”
If you want to talk about Star Trek borrowing from Mass Effect, the final threat from the end of Picard Season 1 is a way closer plot beat than the surface level Gorn aesthetics.
At the end of the day, fiction is a reflection of the time it was written in, and some elements are just going to echo throughout genre fiction.