Data.
If he was like B4 when he was young, I could see a few Starfleet cadets talking him into some shenanigans.
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If he was like B4 when he was young, I could see a few Starfleet cadets talking him into some shenanigans.
I could see Data drawing penises on random bulkheads aboard the Enterprise-D.
HANSON: Please. Shelby would make you a hell of a first officer.
PICARD: I already have a hell of a first officer.
HANSON: Really? Word at Starfleet Command is that he drew a penis on the viewscreen in spacedock.
PICARD: Admiral...Commander Riker has drawn a great many penises on a great many things...
coffee....spit...everywhere
Didn't you learn in school that everyone is special?
I have nothing against that either! It's like a long road trip. A really, really long road trip!
That's exactly it. Some worked and others felt horribly forced. Overall, I did enjoy it. But, I hope they figure out this humor thing. Humor. It is a difficult concept!
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It's telling that my two favorite bits of humor were two things excluded from the trailers and TV spots, namely Justin the holographic "buddy ogre" being all soft-voiced and supportive and saying how "blessed" they must feel, and Mercer and his ex-wife including the Krill bad guy in their discussion about making a marriage work. It could be that since I hadn't seen those before the surprise made them funnier, but they also felt more organic and less like an obvious forced joke. They were just fun little bits of unexpected dialogue that won you over based on playing against expectations.
I do want to see more of Norm MacDonald as Lt. Jell-O (I don't know what his name is, so that'll have to do for now) though. I see a lot of potential for laughs from a sarcastic gelatinous mass.
Everyone from People of Earth, too.
That really cracked me up. That was his main concern.
I don't like the look of the "loops" at the back of the ship. I know it's hard to come up with an original spaceship, but this one doesn't do anything for me.
I thought the colors looked great. The gears badge looks a little "engineery" for helm/nav, but no big deal. IIRC orange was the color for Eagle pilots on Space 1999, not that that has anything to do with it. I really like the shoulder boards for the rank. Good visibility from different angles, good with short sleeves and different collar styles. The Love Boat understood this. The captain and admiral had a different, thicker border to their boards, with some kind of lettering on the forward side.
Yeah, they tried to disguise the telegraphing with the joke about eating the seeds as a snack, but I knew when they laid all that out that some giant redwood would be growing somewhere unexpected. It was fine.
I thought the colors looked great. The gears badge looks a little "engineery" for helm/nav, but no big deal. IIRC orange was the color for Eagle pilots on Space 1999, not that that has anything to do with it. I really like the shoulder boards for the rank. Good visibility from different angles, good with short sleeves and different collar styles. The Love Boat understood this. The captain and admiral had a different, thicker border to their boards, with some kind of lettering on the forward side.
Yeah, they tried to disguise the telegraphing with the joke about eating the seeds as a snack, but I knew when they laid all that out that some giant redwood would be growing somewhere unexpected. It was fine.
and the other guy asking to wear shortsEveryone from People of Earth, too.
That really cracked me up. That was his main concern.
Stewie: The Tommy Westphall of the MacFarlaneverse!
Yes. A long road, gettin' from there to here.
I read somewhere that the engines on the back have some basis in an acceleration curve. Something where if you look at the waveform for it in 3D, you'll see the curves similar to Orville's engines.
For the uniforms, I did like one detail: when Mercer is with Halsey, his rank is Commander. When he gets to Orville later, he's got the Captain's rank.
I liked the loops. It screams, "This is designed this way, because <insert technobabble here>."
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Speaking of technobabble, about the tree. My post from yesterday, now with more technobabble:
The accelerated growth in the beamed area pushed out the parts that had already grown. The growth was fed by whatever Amazing Process it was that would have allowed the seed to grow in inhospitable environments. At the point that I realized that technobabble could explain it that made more sense than stuff I'd suspended disbelief over in Star Trek, I no longer needed to explain it.
addendum -- But it's kinda fun for me to, nonetheless. One could probably make an argument that the quantum bubble expands to surround anything in reactive contact with what's in the bubble, at least to a certain limit. This is supported by dialog, when after examination of the dead woman scientist (Janice Lee) it was said that she was over 125 instead of just her head, and also supported in how the tree looked (normal) when it broke out of the Krill ship. This sort of hand-wavy-ness, again, isn't more than we've put up with in Star Trek. See for example TNG "The Next Phase" and ask yourself why Geordi and Roe don't just fall through the floors of the ship and then out into space. So, yeah, technobabble, fuck yeah!
addendum -- But it's kinda fun for me to, nonetheless. One could probably make an argument that the quantum bubble expands to surround anything in reactive contact with what's in the bubble, at least to a certain limit. This is supported by dialog, when after examination of the dead woman scientist (Janice Lee) it was said that she was over 125 instead of just her head, and also supported in how the tree looked (normal) when it broke out of the Krill ship. This sort of hand-wavy-ness, again, isn't more than we've put up with in Star Trek. See for example TNG "The Next Phase" and ask yourself why Geordi and Roe don't just fall through the floors of the ship and then out into space. So, yeah, technobabble, fuck yeah!
It would be so great if The Orville did a parallel universe episode where they cross over to the real TNG universe. Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner or Jonathan Frakes could guess star. Imagine the possibilities!
It's genetically engineered with Tardigrade DNA, so it can survive in almost any environment. They set that up earlier in the show.
Jonathan Franks is directing one of the episodes, as I recall.
I wonder if Seth read the Star Wreck books from the early 90's. I remeber Lt. "Dacron" kept a can of Dr. Pepper hidden inside his console to drink when he was watching soap operas on his monitor.
Fox UK have picked up the rights but no airdate yet.