Very glad the ratings and demos are extremely good. Fully expecting an inevitable overall drop as the show progresses, but at least it's starting off with a bang. Good first step to take towards a hopeful second season. 
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Certainly isn't.
What are we looking at here, a grab of the closed captioning for the episode?
I loved when Bortus says Alara, "Do not make eye contact with me."
It reminds me of early Worf:
"I do not play games."
"Do not hug me."
I hope at one point he says "Indeed."
It reminds me of early Worf:
"I do not play games."
"Do not hug me."
I hope at one point he says "Indeed."
He was advising her "do not make eye contact" with the bickering couple, so he and Alara could keep out of it.
Indeed.
Yep! If a couple starts like that anywhere, if you even look for a fraction of a second in their direction, you may end up getting roped into the argument. Especially if you know them well.
I'm not sure how much Dreamwork's Trolls had to do with it. I think people were already suggesting that they just make a fully animated film after the first two movies, and color over/undersaturation has been a problem in Hollywood since they discovered color correction in O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
I'm already expecting to love Bortus. I'm expecting him to have a lot of stone faced lines that will actually be quite funny.
Wow! That was certainly clever and creative - in that it had absolutely NOTHING original in it!
Individual words and terms are generally not copyrighted, but can be trademarks. Copyright goes a lot deeper than you imply here. For example (sans permission) you can't just take the script to "Journey to Babel", change the names of all the characters, alien races, ships, etc. and re-shoot it as a new show, as that would still have substantial similarity to the original. You also can't make sequels, at least ones that rely heavily on the original, as these are derivative works.
Pleeeeeese let there be an episode where they fire him. Out of the torpedo tubes. Into the sun.
Oh, yeah. Orville uniforms have pockets!
All true. Obviously, you can't reshoot the script from Journey to Babel with some name changes because that would be plagiarism. My point is that a show cannot be sued just because it follows a similar format to another show. General concepts like spaceships having adventures in space or medieval kings waging war for control of the kingdom are not trademarked as far as I know. It is when you get into the details that trademarks and copyrights become an issue.
Also, I was responding specifically to the claim that SeaQuest DSV could be sued for ripping off Star Trek because the show was essentially "Star Trek underwater" as one poster put it. I disagree because I think there are enough differences between Star Trek and SeaQuest that they would be safe from a lawsuit.
I bet the actors love that. Trek actors often complain that their uniforms didn't have pockets.
I guess one marketing item could come out as a healthy snack: Redwood Seeds!
If the seeds can grow anywhere under any condition...wouldn't they grow in your stomach if you ate them?
I'd think you'd "dispose" of them before they had much time to grow.
I meant "Star Trek Underwater" in the same way one could call Firefly "Gunsmoke in Space" or something like that: a quick way to give you an idea of what the show is about, but no necessarily the implication of outright plagiarism. Contrast this with Bioshock, which is literally just "Systemshock 2 underwater". I don't know how they didn't get sued.
Tardigrades are vulnerable to stomach acid, at least when they're not in their cryptobiotic state.
"This Is A New Genre..."
More than a bit overstated, but the interview is interesting.
More than a bit overstated, but the interview is interesting.