Season 2 Episode titles, writers, directors revealed...

[fireproof78]

I'm surprised all the discussion in this thread about the title Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow yet no one has mentioned that was already used as the title of an Orville episode.

It was?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I'm surprised all the discussion in this thread about the title Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow yet no one has mentioned that was already used as the title of an Orville episode.

That would require me watching The Orville anytime in the last few years.

 

[F. King Daniel]

"Those Old Scientists" could not be more perfect for the Lower Decks crossover.

 

[DEWLine]

Yup.

That'll be the one, I expect.

 

[Paul755]

I love that the apparent title for the crossover ep is an easter egg/callback. So appropriate for something involving Lower Decks.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I guess I'm not getting the joke behind "Those Old Scientists," then. What is it a callback to?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I guess I'm not getting the joke behind "Those Old Scientists," then. What is it a callback to?

Ransom calls Kirk and his crew "TOS".

 

[The Wormhole]

I guess I'm not getting the joke behind "Those Old Scientists," then. What is it a callback to?

Season 1 finale of Lower Decks. While visiting the planet from Return of the Archons, Ransom comments he likes visiting planets from "the TOS era." Freeman asks what "TOS" means and Ransom answers "those old scientists" and explains it's the name he uses in reference to Kirk and his crew.

 

[Mudd]

I'm surprised all the discussion in this thread about the title Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow yet no one has mentioned that was already used as the title of an Orville episode.

I only now discovered this, and rushed in here to see if anyone had already posted it.

A bit sloppy on the SNW folks' part. Claiming that "Oh, it's a MacBeth quote" doesn't take the curse off of it, not one bit. It's not even the familiar intro of the soliloquy, or a significant phrase from it, and it's in a very specific context here. Put another way, if I title a detective novel "A Rose By Any Other Name," I'm quoting Shakespeare. OTOH, if The Orville had titled a TV episode "By Any Other Name," you would have heard some howling around parts of the TrekBBS.

I've suspected a couple of times before that the SNW creators have taken note of and are pretty damned familiar with The Orville, and this is a little confirmation of that. But then, considering how unabashedly MacFarlane modeled his space opera on TOS and TNG, it's really only fair.

 

[fireproof78]

Could always be a musical episode with the crew singing "Tomorrow."

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Season 1 finale of Lower Decks. While visiting the planet from Return of the Archons, Ransom comments he likes visiting planets from "the TOS era." Freeman asks what "TOS" means and Ransom answers "those old scientists" and explains it's the name he uses in reference to Kirk and his crew.

I don't remember that at all, but then it's been over a year since I watched that episode.

 

[fireproof78]

I don't remember that at all, but then it's been over a year since I watched that episode.

17:16 in the below clip:

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[Nerys Myk]

Could always be a musical episode with the crew singing "Tomorrow."

I’d rather it be Tomorrow Never Knows

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[Dukhat]

Season 1 finale of Lower Decks. While visiting the planet from Return of the Archons, Ransom comments he likes visiting planets from "the TOS era." Freeman asks what "TOS" means and Ransom answers "those old scientists" and explains it's the name he uses in reference to Kirk and his crew.

Even though none of them were actually scientists.

 

[Christopher]

Even though none of them were actually scientists.

Spock was a scientist. McCoy was often a medical researcher (and according to VGR, he literally wrote the book on Comparative Alien Physiology). Chekov started out as assistant science officer. Chapel was a research biologist before becoming a nurse.

 

[fireproof78]

Sulu was a science officer and enjoyed botany.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Uhura and Scotty might also be called scientists.

 

[UssGlenn]

Even though none of them were actually scientists.

"The Old Starfleet" makes more sense, but I guess isn't as funny.

 

[Christopher]

Sulu was a science officer and enjoyed botany.

Oh, right. An astrophysicist, specifically.

Uhura and Scotty might also be called scientists.

Mm, yeah. Linguistics is a science. And engineering is applied science.

Plus, of course, there were 420-odd people on the ship besides the main characters, and many of them were scientists of one sort or another.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Even though none of them were actually scientists.

Batman's a scientist.

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