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Watched 20 minutes of the first episode before yet another pee gag made me turn it off. It's total drek. Was hoping for Galaxy Quest, but got another excuse for what's loosely termed as comedy in Hollywood these days. Heck, there was more humour in divorced old Picard and Beverly in All Good Things than there is in this show's central non-couple.
You didn't like it because it's not like Galaxy Quest?? :shrug:

What was the "pee gag" that you didn't like?
 
I'm waiting for the first Briefing Room scene where one of the characters interrupts Isaac's exposition with "Look, I can't do forty minute meetings any more without a piss break, okay? Carry on," and walks out the door.

And starts a stampede.
 
I'm waiting for the first Briefing Room scene where one of the characters interrupts Isaac's exposition with "Look, I can't do forty minute meetings any more without a piss break, okay? Carry on," and walks out the door.

And starts a stampede.
Then, the moment of decision: Does Bortus join the stampede?
 
I think the issue is that people don't pee in the future. DS9 taught us that they got to "Waste extraction" instead.

Jason
 
Only once per season or it's canon violatioooooon!

Speaking of canon violations, it's neat with a brand new show which has literally only one episode of established canon. What will be the first violation!? Is it the eyebrows?
This is part of why I'm loving this series! We're all watching it as it goes, and getting the history! There isn't any of the overwrought history to contend with, arguments and suppositions. What we see is what's happened.
 
Is anyone else kind of waiting for that one time a year for Bortus to pee and it being a huge production with like rituals and such? I'm thinking it could be really funny


I was just about to post that. :lol:

MERCER: You're not a race horse, Mr. Bortus.

BORTUS: No. Neither am I a man. I am Moclan. I'd hoped I would be spared this, but the ancient drives are too strong. Eventually, they catch up with us, and we are driven by forces we cannot control to return home and take a leak. Or die.
 
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Hey Bortus can you....NO it is pee day


I can already see it. A special toliet. A call from his parents wishing him a happy pee day. Perhaps a cake is involved. Granted I also wonder if his species also poops just once a year as well.

Jason
 
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