And yet you seem to think that some TNG homage show on another network poses some sort of threat to the franchise, so you just contradicted your own point, as poorly constructed as it was to begin with.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room, this series violates Roddenberry's vision big time
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I, for one, love the low brow humor. Star Trek could use a character that randomly goes around drawing dicks on things.
Where did I imply it was a threat? I never said that. I just said that the guy's post was trollish. Now you're making things up.
There is nothing demeaning in that. It just isn't for everyone.
Secondly, while the humor is hit and miss for me, the characters are what drive it and their reactions.
You're the one trying to tell people their opinions are not welcome here or are considered "borderline trolling" just because they happen to have the user name and avatar of the captain of The Orville, so don't try and flip it around and play the victim all of a sudden. You're the one who has now derailed us into a mutli-page tangent about the Orville being an attack on Trek out of the blue.
No one has told you that you're not entitled to your opinion. But we don't have to agree with your opinion or tell you that it makes a damn bit of sense when it doesn't.
With a series, to me, is disappointing so far and has failed to capture any of my imagination so far. No other iteration of Trek has done that, which is even more alarming. My parents turned the channel part way into the pilot of DSC, and they've watched every version of Trek since 1966.
Just because something has been around a while doesn't mean it's always highly regarded and consistently fantastic.
You said The Orville demeans Star Trek, as in it causes people to lose respect for it. That was the threat it posed to the 51 year old franchise, a loss of dignity and respect. Which is ridiculous.
His post wasn't trollish at all, and it's not your place to call it that anyway, or to try and limit who's allowed to have an opinion on DSC.
Star Trek must never be satirized or mocked in any way. Treating the holy franchise in a humorous and irreverent manner is pure and utter sacrilege.
Trek must be approached with grovelling on bent knees with heads bowed in sheer awe, and accorded the utmost dignity and deferential respect at all times.
Kor
Trek must be approached with grovelling on bent knees with heads bowed in sheer awe, and accorded the utmost dignity and deferential respect at all times.
Kor
All hail the saintly crews of Starships Enterprise, Voyager, Discovery and that altar of all celestial goodness, the Ninth Station in Deep Space...
No, actually you were, and again, as a non-mod, it's not your place to publicly accuse anyone of trolling, sarcastically or not. Especially when the accusation is pure nonsense. If you have a problem with someone's post, notify on it. Though I will tell you right now, there was nothing trolling or troublesome about his post, so it would have been rejected.
Reminds me of SF Debris joke about teaching Sunday School.
I love Roddenberry but my issues with him can be summarized by all the shade he threw on The Undiscovered Country's script before he died.
TWOK's shenanigans bugged me too.
And yay, though Saint Gene had his flaws, I implore you: give, give him a break!
He was a dying old man at that point. I tend to cut him some slack there.
Fair enough.
