Inertial dampeners are needed when the ship goes to ludicurious speed. Not sure if Orville has that.
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Inertial dampeners are needed when the ship goes to ludicurious speed. Not sure if Orville has that.
I'd even say it's beneficial for the franchise overall.
If there wasn't an Orville and STD failed, we probably wouldn't see another Star Trek on TV for a decade.
If Orville is a reasonable success and STD fails, you can bet they'd make another ST show, lighter in tone.
Heck, if it's a hit, they might make a new, lighter toned ST show regardless of how STD does.
Just in case you stopped watching after season 4, most seem to agree that season 5 was much better again.
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I am embracing Discovery already. Will definitely watch the first episode on CBS. And if I like it then I guess I have to pony up and subscribe to that all access crap. What are the chances of me not liking it? Not good. I have liked all the Trek series so far, and the clips from this one look good.
I will continue to watch Orville too. It's funny and entertaining which is more than I can say for those shows on Syfy.
I will continue to watch Orville too. It's funny and entertaining which is more than I can say for those shows on Syfy.
So this is a weird first post but after reading through the entire thread, I felt compelled to defend one of the "lowbrow" jokes.
Namely, the dog licking itself gag. Yes, the dog licking its crotch in itself is just kind of vulgar. But I don't think that's really the joke.
The joke is making fun of the trope of all communication being in video on TNG-era Trek. Every time you contact someone, they're in a perfectly framed shot, and if anything is going on in the background, it's some convenient setup to demonstrate the setting.
Well, that's not really what it would be like, would it? Things like what we saw, i.e. something mundane and inappropriate, would pop up in the background quite often. Someone's kid runs in, a dog licks itself, etc. It would be rather weird if every scientist and civilian was always perfectly composited as if a crew had set the shot up for a cable news talking head segment.
Anyway, that's what I got from that scene, and that's what I found amusing about it, not "ha, look at the dog lick it's crotch!".
Namely, the dog licking itself gag. Yes, the dog licking its crotch in itself is just kind of vulgar. But I don't think that's really the joke.
The joke is making fun of the trope of all communication being in video on TNG-era Trek. Every time you contact someone, they're in a perfectly framed shot, and if anything is going on in the background, it's some convenient setup to demonstrate the setting.
Well, that's not really what it would be like, would it? Things like what we saw, i.e. something mundane and inappropriate, would pop up in the background quite often. Someone's kid runs in, a dog licks itself, etc. It would be rather weird if every scientist and civilian was always perfectly composited as if a crew had set the shot up for a cable news talking head segment.
Anyway, that's what I got from that scene, and that's what I found amusing about it, not "ha, look at the dog lick it's crotch!".
Maybe, maybe not.
The entertainment world is completely different from 10 or even just 5 years ago.
Unlike when Enterprise was out, ST fans today have hundreds of hours of SciFi and Star Trek available inexpensively (or free) online.
And sure, disaffected Trek fans might grudgingly tune in, but what if they do it in a way (whether on purpose or not) so that CBS doesn't make a dime?
Back in the day, the licensees could always count on DVD sales and merchandising to make up for some of those losses. Today the DVD market had cratered, and the licensees aren't exactly lining up for STD in huge numbers.
Personally I remember when Stargate Universe came out, and there was a similar "whatever, the fans may be angry, but they'll watch it anyways"-attitude from the producers of SGU. And that ended up as a monumental flop.
They have no new live action available anywhere except in the form of a movie from Paramount every couple of years.
Yes, and after talking about how much the entertainment world has changed you reach back for an example to a TV series that was entirely dependent on the now nearly-obsolete broadcast model.
Discovery is a streaming series that's already in the black for the first year. You'll probably never have any clear idea how many people are watching it, because neither CBS or Netflix are likely to ever share those numbers in any kind of meaningful format beyond the occasional publicity blast.
They will get more than enough subscriptions based on offering new Star Trek to make it worth their while for at least two or three seasons.
Another thing I lol'd at. Not just the bars and strip clubs part, but how quickly he gathered the information was blindsiding.
It suggested that he'd already made a motivated search.
MWR (morale, welfare, and recreation) officer! As we call it in the Navy, although it's just a collateral duty. Still, that would be a funny role for him to have if it's not just a one-off joke.Tourism officer?
He's like Radar on MASH, anticipates your needs and questions before even you know what you need.
He has the perfect personality for that.
I'd give real money if an evil alien commander was threatening the crew on the viewscreen in a future episode and his kids busted in like this, showing that he's just been sitting at home the whole time. Add the mother coming in to grab them with some tentacles or something and that's golden.
Maybe so, but I just thought he was super-efficient at space Googling.
Which, as an aside, raises an issue that's rarely if ever been addressed, even though it happens all the time. If the computers on Star Trek are capable of listening to and understanding everything that's being said, which honestly they seem to be doing all the time (else how could the computer know it's being addressed), then it would follow that a running transcript of everything that's being said aloud on the bridge could potentially be available at the command consoles. Selecting parts of that transcript could enable rapid processing of commands.
Example: Picard orders the ship to go to a certain random star system. How many button pushes should it take to enter that? Sometimes it looked like only a few taps. How is that possible? Possible answer: the helmsman just taps on the transcript line in the context of "set destination" which, if it's a current statement (it is, since Picard just said it), is right there at or near the end of the queue. So, two taps would do it, to enter the destination, no matter what Picard has said.
I keep hearing this, but it makes me think people are unaware of Discovery's merchandising push. We are getting novels, comics, props next year and I believe we're getting action figures. Eaglemoss is going to do miniatures.
What else is really needed?
An audience base, lest it become "The Simpsons".