Oh good gravy! I'm sorry, I should post with spoiler tags!
News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
- Thread starter Kai "the spy"
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I agree. I think it would be better and funnier if they just made a clever reference without specific names something like "Did you hear the Union flagship got caught in another spatial anomaly last week?"
"Man, why can't we get a spatial anomaly? The flagship gets to do all the cool stuff!"
don't worry about it
. I came in here willingly not having seen the episode. I knew people would be talking about it.
I finally watched the first episode with my wife last night. It definitely had a more serious tone that I actually appreciated about it as the show went on. The world building is pretty solid and convincing, which I appreciated.
The humor was hit and miss for me, but most of the jokes landed, and possibly some things that were not possibly jokes. A lot of deadpan humor, which I really enjoyed. Alara and Bortus in particular were very well done. I think my biggest laugh out loud was the pizza party ploy.
Any body else nearly puke with the starship battle?
The humor was hit and miss for me, but most of the jokes landed, and possibly some things that were not possibly jokes. A lot of deadpan humor, which I really enjoyed. Alara and Bortus in particular were very well done. I think my biggest laugh out loud was the pizza party ploy.
Any body else nearly puke with the starship battle?
You'll still love it anyway! It was quite a good episode, and I think it was better than the first one! BTW, I noticed the command chairs were different. The armrests were thicker at least.don't worry about it
Something I like about the set that I read is that it literally is a two-level set. So seeing someone (like Alara last night) go down the spiral stairs to the lower level, they really are doing that.
First episode was meh, to me (clearly not a majority opinion here, but there it is) but I enjoyed the second one more. It's graduated to DVR status. Hope it keeps earning that "honour". 
Overall, it's entertaining fluff (nothing wrong with that) still getting its "space legs". I'd like the humour to be a bit more smoothly integrated into the flow but I expect that should improve as everyone becomes more accustomed to each other.
Did enjoy the Twilight Zone/TOS homages.
Overall, it's entertaining fluff (nothing wrong with that) still getting its "space legs". I'd like the humour to be a bit more smoothly integrated into the flow but I expect that should improve as everyone becomes more accustomed to each other.
Did enjoy the Twilight Zone/TOS homages.
Everything about the show directly cribs some element of TNG-era Trek
I have a feeling The Orville will forever be treated as an extension of Trek fandom. The Orville discussion will always be taking place inside Trek hangouts, vlogs, blogs, podcasts, stealing mindshare that Discovery is supposed to be occupying this fall. I can't imagine CBS being thrilled about it being offered up as a sort of alternate Trek fiefdom, a reactionary response to Discovery being grimdark, but that's how it's been marketed and how it's starting to play out.
I don't think we've seen an Orvilleverse (this is going to be a thing) Union Fleet ship named after an historical naval vessel yet - have we?
Orville and tonight's guest ship, the Bleriot, are both named for early aviators. Maybe McFarlane has thought out an alternative naming schema so that they don't trip over familiar Trek ship names.
There did seem some confusion after the orientation of the staircase after the pilot episode but I think they've settled where it fits in quite nicely
Maybe no USS Enterprise but how about the ECV? Enterprize? (Can't remember the registry name on the hull and can't find a good screen grab that shows it).
They could do a similar joke to what SG1 did.
Two admirals are talking about a new ship being built.
Admiral 1: "Have you thought about a name for the new ship being built?"
Admiral 2: "How about the Enterprise?"
Admiral 1: "We can't. The name is already taken."
It would be a way to reference Enterprise while cleverly acknowledging that another franchise is already using the name.
Actually, I'd love to see a self-deprecating parody of "Threshold". Done right, that would be f---ing amazing.* yes, I know that Brannon Braga has worked on Voyager and now, he does on Orville. Let's hope that he will not make a "Threshold" (Voyager) à la sauce Orville!
I created a new thread to talk about ways of naming ships in new sci-fi properties like The Orville:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/starship-naming-schemes-for-a-new-sci-fi-universe.289942/
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/starship-naming-schemes-for-a-new-sci-fi-universe.289942/
The first one was the replicated swill, the second one was the good stuff, Xelayan made and bottled
The first one was Xelayweiser.The first one was the replicated swill, the second one was the good stuff, Xelayan made and bottled
Yep!The first one was the replicated swill, the second one was the good stuff, Xelayan made and bottled
But they were both amber (the first one sorta looks clear in the replicator, but you can see it's amber when lifted up into the light as she's just about to down it).Nah, not really.
Star Trek actually "borrowed" that name from the US navy, just like the Federation was using the concept of the UN.
If Starfleet could be inspired by the US Navy to name a ship The Enterprise in Star Trek's universe, there's no reason why "Starfleet" in the Orville universe couldn't do the same.
In that vein, a lot of the criticism of Orville "stealing" from Star Trek is rather silly. Orville isn't doing anything that Star Trek didn't do. Extending the idea of the UN into a federation of planets, for example.
How did I not put that together? He even had the damn Wright Flyer on his desk.
I like how, when Kitan is pleading for Finn to relieve her, she offers the excuse that she's a drug addict as a suggested reason. One of the themes that's been explored in the first two episodes is the difference between drug use and drug abuse. For me, it's interesting to see this being treated in an ST-like setting in a way that's immeasurably deeper than Yar's "Just Say No" speech in "Symbiosis" (a very low bar).
It's okay. Taking into account that this is a MacFarlane show, it once crossed my mind that the ship might have been named after Orville Reddenbocker. Fortunately, this was proven not to be the case quite early on.