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THE ORVILLE - S1, E5: "PRIA"

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    Votes: 23 26.7%

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    Votes: 36 41.9%

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    Votes: 19 22.1%

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    Votes: 7 8.1%

  • * Fear the banana

    Votes: 1 1.2%
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Charlize Theron - "Oscar Winner" Charlize Theron, Fox would like us to remember - is the eponymous guest start. Looks like she's been raiding Picard's closet:

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"After the crew saves a stranded ship and its attractive captain, Ed becomes smitten with the Orville's new guest, while Kelly suspects all is not what it seems. Meanwhile, Gordon attempts to teach Isaac the art of pulling off a practical joke."

Thursday, October 5th at 9:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 PM Central.

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I am really looking forward to this episode. The premise looks very interesting and I am hoping the B plot of Gordon trying to teach Isaac how to do a practical joke, will be very funny.
 
Given TNG's attempts at whimsical, gentle humor whenever Geordi tried to teach Data something human, I'm hoping that Isaac's first attempt at following Gordon's advice involves a core overload and massive decompression on decks D through F. :D
 
I'm a big fan of Charlize Theron, so I look forward to seeing her.
After what we've seen of them so far, I'm very curious to see what Isaac and Gordon's practical jokes are like.
I'm definitely getting a TMP or 2001 vibe from some of the imagery we see in the promo.
 
NOVE9 said:
Given this shows track record she probably has a hankering for salt......
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Or maybe she'll go to all the male crew members saying she is only for them. :luvlove:

Or she wants to steal Isaac's brain. :borg:
Or she'll make people bet too many quatloos on her while she engages in mortal combat wearing very little. :drool:

But seriously, I kid the sci-fi writing people! :)
 
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They just did the TNG make-up particle dumbness. That's kind of too bad.
 
10 LY / Hour?! The fastest speeds for Starfleet's ships was something around 3-4 lightyears / day!
 
Member Matter of Time?

They chose the less interesting ending over the more interesting one. I don't care that if Pria never came back in time Pria should have never saved the Orville, that's fine. They had a chance to make a self serving decision to preserve themselves and chose the antiseptic resolution instead.

Orville continues to be...fun okayness.

At least I like the characters.
 
They went there with Isaac's practical joke! Take that, Data! :lol:

Continuity error: Isaac took Gordon's leg off just above the knee. The one that fell out of Pria's ceiling was cut off at the hip.

The main story was fucking cool - they took a couple of really unexpected turns. The effects on the show are extravagant in concept and colorfully executed, like the best sf illustration of the period that inspired things like Forbidden Planet and Trek.

This show gets more story done in 42 minutes than 90s Trek did in months.
 
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She is erased but he remembers her?

The Union is cool with Captains destroying irreplaceable stellar objects?

Anyway - missing leg, funny!
 
We see that the Orville is much more powerful than Starfleet ships. Not only are they some 80x faster than the fastest speeds of Starfleet ships but their weapons systems can destroy singularities and their medical technology is advanced enough to regenerate limbs. (In Trek it seems limbs are replaced with advanced artificial ones.)

That was a really good episode and this is the first one where I think all of the humor landed and worked and the "human moments" worked too, like with Gordon speaking to Issac's "body" in the sickbay.

The popular culture references worked better too here even if they still feel a bit out of place. Having Issac offering a "Junior Mint" through the computer panel, connecting to the Seinfeld episode at the start of the show, was good work.

I've got to say, I'm very impressed with how this show is moving along. It just feels... Good. Fun. Interesting.

(Though the paradox at the end I don't understand. Ed destroys the wormhole, which removes Theron from the "present" but why are the results of her interferences still there? Why is the Orville still around, the transporter thing still there and Ed, seemingly, remembering her? It makes little sense for her actions to still exist but not herself.)
 
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