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News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

After the Star Wars reference I NEED a Trek reference LOL. There has to be a bald captain to show up at some point (patrick stewart or not) and have a name that sounds like Picard...and he introduces himself...."I'm sorry you said your name was Picard?" "No, it's Rickard"
 
It looks enough like TNG that I'm thinking, "Gee, that reminds me of TNG." It doesn't need to be a carbon copy to get the allusion, if indeed "allusion" is a strong enough word.
 
You know I realized a few hours ago I had kind of forgotten about the blob character and now I wonder when we will see him again and what role he will play,especially know that we are getting kind of a feel for what the show is going to be like. I am especially curious as to what his job could be because I didn't think about it at the time but a blob thing is going to have limitations. You don't have hands to use computers and sitting on a chair seems almost impossible.

Just a idea but what if the blob is the ship's counselor. The show doesn't seem to have any character that is even partly inspired by Troi. Also I think it just would be funny to hear people talking about their issue's to a blob thing with Norm McDonald's voice.

Jason
 
I don't understand why people are putting down the show because it's not like TNG. I haven't read every interview or behind the scenes article but was it ever said that they were specifically trying to copy TNG?
 
Jayson1 said:
You know I realized a few hours ago I had kind of forgotten about the blob character and now I wonder when we will see him again and what role he will play,especially know that we are getting kind of a feel for what the show is going to be like. I am especially curious as to what his job could be because I didn't think about it at the time but a blob thing is going to have limitations. You don't have hands to use computers and sitting on a chair seems almost impossible.

Just a idea but what if the blob is the ship's counselor. The show doesn't seem to have any character that is even partly inspired by Troi. Also I think it just would be funny to hear people talking about their issue's to a blob thing with Norm McDonald's voice.

Jason
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Oh yes, I would love to see the blob guy again
 
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Sophie74656 said:
I don't understand why people are putting down the show because it's not like TNG. I haven't read every interview or behind the scenes article but was it ever said that they were specifically trying to copy TNG?
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Something about everything about the show? :lol:

What's screwy is that folks want to submit the show to the same kind of nitpicky continuity and plausibility analysis that they do the Trek shows, when The Orville is such a romp.

"Remember that it's just a show; you should really just relax."

That being said, The Orville is really quite successful at doing the kind of science fiction I enjoyed in the original Star Trek and that none of the sequels, beginning from TNG onward, were ever very good at.
 
Are we just making the TNG connection becase we are Trekkies? I get that it is somewhat modeled after TNG since Seth is a fan himself. But I just don't think it's fair to criticise the show when it does something different from TNG.
 
Absolutely not. The more different from the Star Trek approach to drama this show becomes, the better for everybody.

McFarlane should consider to feel free, however, to use every sf idea or plot idea that Trek failed to treat in a novel or entertaining way - ST didn't invent a single one, after all.
 
BillJ said:
I don't know how? The sets and lighting scream TNG.
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Yes absolutely.
Obviously it is not like Galactica
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Or the NX-01 Enterprise
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but more like TNG
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Sophie74656 said:
After the Star Wars reference I NEED a Trek reference LOL. There has to be a bald captain to show up at some point (patrick stewart or not) and have a name that sounds like Picard...and he introduces himself...."I'm sorry you said your name was Picard?" "No, it's Rickard"
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Your Trek reference was that red alert sound in the zoo.
 
Guy Gardener said:
Copyrights in America are only supposed to last 75 years.

Disney is doing some shady lawyer shit to keep that mouse to themselves.

Besides... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... NO! NO!

(I'm probably wrong, but up next below makes sense.)

I was going to say that The Real Housewives was also probably owned by someone in the future, which means that what they did was a massive act of video piracy, unless the Real House Wives entered the common domain at some point in the last 5 centuries.

"Sigh"

Which is when a light bulb above my head lit up: You know how it seems like the Real Housewives came out of no where (unless I blinked?) like it was totally left field bullshit.... What if the real Housewives play a minor part in the REAL 2nd episode (production order) that's due out in two weeks?

That looked like a call back.

Right?

But it was calling back to nothing.

Weird.
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Actually in the U.S.:
Works done post 1978: 70 year past the death of the work's author.
95 years for anonymous works
90 years for any 'works for hire'
(Also, the above copyrights can be renewed/republished to reset the 90 years term)
 
I think that any little bit of stuffy formal poohbah like "Permission to speak freely, sir?" is a Trek reference/Easter egg.

For instance, you never hear anyone say it to Lord Vader.
 
Serveaux said:
I think that any little bit of stuffy formal poohbah like "Permission to speak freely, sir?" is a Trek reference/Easter egg.

For instance, you never hear anyone say it to Lord Vader.
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No, they would just spout off at him at how his plans were reckless and he would choke the pee out of them with the Force.
 
Ar-Pharazon said:
Yep, the sets are well lit and there's beige. I'm surprised Paramount hasn't filed the lawsuit yet :guffaw:
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The corridors of the ship have the color pallette of TNG, but the width of TOS. I remember Roddenberry saying around the time of the planning of sets and designs for TNG that he didn't want it to look like TOS, since that was like the hallway of a Holiday Inn.

Turns out people say that about the TNG sets!
 
Serveaux said:
Something about everything about the show? :lol:

What's screwy is that folks want to submit the show to the same kind of nitpicky continuity and plausibility analysis that they do the Trek shows, when The Orville is such a romp.

"Remember that it's just a show; you should really just relax."

That being said, The Orville is really quite successful at doing the kind of science fiction I enjoyed in the original Star Trek and that none of the sequels, beginning from TNG onward, were ever very good at.
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I definitely agree -- Orville is supposed to be fun, so I am totally not nitpicking on things (especially the science). If there's something creative yet plausible, cool. But crazy stuff like the instant tree.... sure, why not.

BTW, curious what do you mean the type of S-f that TOS did that TNG after never did? I feel like DS9 came closest, IMO.

Serveaux said:
Absolutely not. The more different from the Star Trek approach to drama this show becomes, the better for everybody.

McFarlane should consider to feel free, however, to use every sf idea or plot idea that Trek failed to treat in a novel or entertaining way - ST didn't invent a single one, after all.
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Didn't Stargate SG-1 already do that ? ;) Well, I myself look forward to the take on Mirror Universes.
 
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