So is Alara's hair a wig then? Or does she just dye it black when they're filming?
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Once again the brilliance of "Orville" is made clear. Menosky must have been watching the show on tv and was blown away with how good it was and thus he quite "Discovery" just for the chance to write for "Orville." Braga knew him and maybe MacFarlane so they of coursed welcomed him aboard.
Jason
Jason
I'd have to look up most of those episodes, since I'm not good with titles, but I certainly remember "Darmok" and "The Chase," both of which are among my favorites. "The Chase" had a real ACC vibe.
TNG: First Contact - Riker is injured while on a pre-warp planet.
TNG: Masks - An alien probe downloads data on it's society and members of the race who created it into the Enterprise and Data. As the episode goes on Data starts taking on more and more alien personalities.
VOY: Distant Origins - Aliens in the Delta Quadrant won't accept that they evolved from Earth dinsoaurs.
VOY: The Killing Game - Hirogen take over Voyager and put the crew in a bunch of Holodeck programs, including a recreation of WWII Paris and a Klingon battle, where they can be hunted.
TNG: Masks - An alien probe downloads data on it's society and members of the race who created it into the Enterprise and Data. As the episode goes on Data starts taking on more and more alien personalities.
VOY: Distant Origins - Aliens in the Delta Quadrant won't accept that they evolved from Earth dinsoaurs.
VOY: The Killing Game - Hirogen take over Voyager and put the crew in a bunch of Holodeck programs, including a recreation of WWII Paris and a Klingon battle, where they can be hunted.
Okay, I recall not being too impressed with "Masks," but I liked the others.
Menosky was also a staff writer so it's unknown what else he has brought to shows were he doesn't even have a writers credit on it. I know his rep was for doing kind of weird stuff. More of a big concept guy than maybe someone who is better at character oriented stuff.
Jason
Jason
I guess I'm in the minority report for people who liked "Masks". I thought Spiner's portrayal of so many different and distinct characters was quite brilliant (the "old man" scene by the fire was particularly haunting) and the different parts of the ship being turned into an ancient stone city was a cool touch. Menosky will be a welcome addition, IMO.
I think "Masks" is overall a good episode, or in the upper half of TNG episodes. Spiner's performances are good, and the mythological and astrological symbolism is actually interesting. One thing that undermines it is that the framing device is basically in the mold of or recycled from "The Inner Light": ship is somehow threatened by archive of lost alien race who has no hostile intent but rather only an urge to be posthumously remembered which they will paradoxically enforce, with for that matter a dab of what "The Chase" is ultimately all about, minus the gun held to the head. "Masks" is also unfortunately just a puzzle box episode, and all its paint-by-number aspects really tell as being symptomatic of TNG having basically run its course.
"Masks" is probably not better than "The Inner Light" either, which while a good episode isn't great and has some serious problems, number one of which is that the portrait of the lost civilization as a short-sighted but good-hearted people is incongruous with the fact that an alien race who would assault the commanding officer of a starship isn't exhibiting benevolent intent (unless of course they really are that short-sighted).
"Masks" is probably not better than "The Inner Light" either, which while a good episode isn't great and has some serious problems, number one of which is that the portrait of the lost civilization as a short-sighted but good-hearted people is incongruous with the fact that an alien race who would assault the commanding officer of a starship isn't exhibiting benevolent intent (unless of course they really are that short-sighted).
So he's writing for both Discovery and Orville? Or did he leave discovery.
Saw the season 1 finale last night. It was like a bunch of Voyager and Next Gen episodes were put into a blender. Comfortable familiarity. It was fun, though.
Distant Origin and Masks are two premises that didn't work so well for Star Trek but seem like they would work better in a setting that has established itself as a little more silly.
What was the one where Janeway and Paris had lizard babies? That was definitely more of an Orville. 
I don't think Orville would do something like that (Unless it's original writer, Brannon Braga who's an EP on Orville) forces it down their (our) throats.