I just watched the first episode of this. I'm a fan. This show is exactly what Powerless should have been last year.
News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
- Thread starter Kai "the spy"
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Just wait, I think the show gets progressively better with each episode.
I haven't read this thread obviously, but what I really love about the show is how it pays tribute to Star Trek. The show uses classic Trek tropes without making fun of them--the humor comes from the characters and the stories themselves. My first post referenced Powerless. If that show had embraced the superhero genre the way The Orville embraces Trek then it would have been a hit, I think.
StarTrek.com just did a big TNG 30th Anniversary interview with Rick Berman and asked him what he thought of Discovery, but I think I'd almost be more interested in what he thinks of The Orville.
My reaction to this news.
I am slightly annoyed with Orville. I have fiction stories in my head that I haven't had time to get down on paper. One character is a young female human who was born and raised on a high-grav world. Okay, she's not Supergirl, but she is a lot stronger than she looks. I created that character over three and a half years ago.
My stories are set on one particular ship, but there are five or six other ships patrolling that sector. One has a female captain whose ex-husband is the first officer on another one of these ships. He has more time-in-service but she fast-tracked and made rank before he did, not long after the divorce. And no, they are not "friends" now.
If I yell it loud enough: ORVILLE STOLE MY IDEAS!! Will anyone believe me??
My stories are set on one particular ship, but there are five or six other ships patrolling that sector. One has a female captain whose ex-husband is the first officer on another one of these ships. He has more time-in-service but she fast-tracked and made rank before he did, not long after the divorce. And no, they are not "friends" now.
If I yell it loud enough: ORVILLE STOLE MY IDEAS!! Will anyone believe me??
Been there.
Same here. It happens to everybody, for various reasons ranging from coincidence to great minds thinking alike. The moment when the Orville landing party entered the bioship and was awestruck by the interior was very similar to a scene in a story I wrote last year.
As pointed out on Trekyards, the latest story has a storyline similar to Gerrold's "The Galactic Whirlpool". I vaguely remember reading that novel decades ago, when I was into reading Star Trek novels.
Nope. My character is enlisted, and her home world is also of my own creation, a human colony of ~150K people with a gravity of 1.45 Earth normal.So, Michael Burnham?
But maybe you jut gave me cause to complain about Discovery, too.
I didn't say I invented divorce, just I have two command-level officers who were married to each other and now aren't. Annoyingly similar to Orville, and I really don't want someone say that I ripped them off when I had the idea well before the show came out.
Well, seeing as I haven't typed one word yet, don't hold your breath or you'll look like this guy>>
Here's a couple things I have posted on Trek-BBS:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/st-tos-era-police-story-the-first-shoe-dropped.279855/
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/short-story-set-in-st-tos-era-timelines.221197/
Here's a couple things I have posted on Trek-BBS:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/st-tos-era-police-story-the-first-shoe-dropped.279855/
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/short-story-set-in-st-tos-era-timelines.221197/
Two questions:
1. Anybody recall who answers the hailing frequencies? I don't want to scroll back through episodes to find it. Nobody's job description indicates it.
2. What the heck is Gordon's job anyway? All I see is "helmsman". But, isn't that essentially what LaMarr is doing at navigation? Perhaps some kind of general "Wesley Crusher" ops station thing? And if Gordon is such a hot-shot pilot, how come LaMarr is the navigator?
1. Anybody recall who answers the hailing frequencies? I don't want to scroll back through episodes to find it. Nobody's job description indicates it.
2. What the heck is Gordon's job anyway? All I see is "helmsman". But, isn't that essentially what LaMarr is doing at navigation? Perhaps some kind of general "Wesley Crusher" ops station thing? And if Gordon is such a hot-shot pilot, how come LaMarr is the navigator?
You answered your own question. He's the hot shot pilot. LaMmarr figures out how to get there. Gordon gets them there.
Yeah, but a navigator drives a ship. At least I recall Data doing both at his helm. And Wesley doing both as well.
It just seems odd. It's like I was driving my car, but I had somebody in the passenger seat giving me the directions.
It just seems odd. It's like I was driving my car, but I had somebody in the passenger seat giving me the directions.
I haven't seen it, but The Orville is terrible in every measurable way.
You should all repent immediately. Join CBS All Access at once, consume Star Trek Discovery and perhaps Gene's Ghost will forgive you.
You should all repent immediately. Join CBS All Access at once, consume Star Trek Discovery and perhaps Gene's Ghost will forgive you.
They don't have navigators in TNG/VOY. Geordie, Ro, Wes and Tom were all pilots/flight controllers which combines helm and navigation.