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It’s as much Star Trek as the unofficial Trek movie Galaxy Quest. Doesn’t matter if the characters and universe are different, it’s got the same vibe to fit in.
The Orville has more Star Trek Vibe than most recent official shows
More than Discovery. Somewhat less than SNW. Not even close to Lower Decks.
A few years back, it was true, though. Picard…
More then SNW, by a good margin.
Galaxy Quest is the best Trek movie
Right after First Contact and The Wrath of Khan, yes.
And Voyage Home
And The Undiscovered Country
Undiscovered Country is my favorite TOS movie, even above The Wrath of Khan.
Undiscovered Country is even better if you watch it in the original Klingon.
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I can understand why. The motivations and message are a bit deeper than WoK. But UC wouldn’t have happened (in the same way) without WoK first, since I don’t think Kirk had the same hatred towards Klingons before. Distrust sure, but not revenge level hate.
UC also has that connection with one of the best TNG episodes, Yesterday’s Enterprise.
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I’d put it above all the TNG movies, too.
Good point, at worst it ranks about equally with Galaxy Quest for me … Sigourney Weaver weights my ranking a lot though
I will agree that those two movies have the absolute best soundtracks of all the movies.
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It’s literally just camp TNG with juvenile humor, mildly annoying characters, and low stakes.
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It took me a while to get passed the early episodes, they were a little too “family guy” for me.
But the show did get pretty good in season 2, and the humour got better (in my opinion).
I think the humour in the first few episodes was Mcfarlens way of sneaking the show past the network suits - he sold it as family guy meets star trek, then switched on them once it was established.
Literally the case, the first couple eps were written for fartjock executives. Ep 4 onwards were written for the show. It’s why there’s a sudden stratospheric upswing
The humor is the worst. All kidding aside, I wish you all the best.
I bet he didn’t even fuck a ghost!
I’m sure there’s no actual juvenile humor in the armed forces.
Someone didn’t watch past ep 3
This show is so freaking Star Trek that it out-Star Treks the Star Trek.
When that second episode of the first season dropped I said the same thing to a friend that’s a die hard Star Trek fan. They weren’t enjoying the new Trek, yet, but wanted the thought provoking episodes now, action later/sprinkled in
I heard the review “better Trek than Trek”.
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I think he aimed that comment at Discovery.
People keep saying this, so as someone who has only watched half of the first season, when does it get to this point?
I mean it’s amusing enough, but it’s just a pastiche of cliches and obvious gags. People keep saying that it distills Trek down to its essence or something like that, but to me it seems like “watered down” would be more accurate.
Having a bad first season is as Star Trek as you can get. All kidding aside, it gets better and more serious with time.
Just like TNG it starts picking up in the 2nd season and really hits its stride on the 3rd season. If you were to rewatch TNGs first season without the nostalgia goggles you’d consider it pretty campy too.
After the first season it begins to feel a bit less campy and the crude humor is toned down a bit and even more so I feel by the third season. The overall plot starts to show itself in season 2 and just gets better from there.
I saw a different season 3 I guess. The humor was gone but the kind and progressive approach to problems that I like about Trek was kinda gone too.
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It’s an alternate universe’s Star Trek. They just need some handwavium device to cross universe and they could make a crossover episode.
When are we getting the Wilbur TV show? That’s what I want to know.
it’s been a long road . . . .
Don’t you start.
getting from there to here…
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We definitely do need that show…
I’m actually surprised there isn’t, as far as I know, a modern high-budget miniseries about the Wright brothers. It seems like such an obvious biography subject.
I know. They could easily do it now, and potentially very well. It seems like a slam dunk.
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Can you imagine how cool it would be to see reproductions of those early planes flying? They wouldn’t have to stop at the first flight. They could do something like go up through WWI.
So which one of those guys is Orville?
This makes sense, we all remember Katherine Voyager Janeway
Or the Jean-Luc The-New-Generation Picard
It all started with James “Star” Trek Kirk.
They’re standing inside him.
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Is it his birthday?
The Orville literally made me give Star Trek an actual try. I think of it as my first series of Trek.
Welcome beratna.
Another one here ☝️
Orville was such an aimless show in the beginning. Obviously it started out going for campy comedy parody but it honestly wasn’t hitting the mark on the comedy often enough. I’m stalled out somewhere in early Season 3–not because I wasn’t enjoying it, I think it’s actually gotten pretty good by that point, but just time and other commitments.
I prefer the first seasons that they didn’t take the show too seriously. The last ones (or last one?) Was way too dense, with episodes way too long that got be bored at half episode every time.
I agree, earlier seasons had the right balance
I agree as well. And I’ve had my best laugh while watching season one and being high.
Because it was probably written while being high…
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I had the opposite experience lol! I really liked the first season, season 2 started off pretty well, but I lost interest before I got to season 3. It felt like the later episodes were either too preachy, or too focused on trying to make the characters “cool” instead of funny. I just wasn’t enjoying it any more
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Until Strange New World came out, Orville was my favorite Trek since TNG.
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I’m not sure the mods are going to care honestly. I think most are in agreement that the Orville is basically star trek adjacent, and close enough that… Honestly as long as it doesn’t take over, nobody will bat an eye at the occasional Orville meme.
Wake me up when we are posting Hyperdrive memes
Talkydoor?
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Bronies are so cringe.
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I like how Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Tang are pretending just a collar counts as a uniform
