Seth MacFarlane Created "The Orville" To Fulfill A Need Star Trek Had Abandoned

[fireproof78]

It's a point of concern for me that people, especially younger people, get their ideas of what sex and possibly romance are supposed to be like based primarily on exposure to erotic fantasy content.

Even if you know full well that what you're experiencing isn't real in any meaningful context, unconsciously it probably does impact one's hopes or expectations.

None of which has anything to with The Orville, admittedly.

This is hardly new. I recall the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers doing a PSA about fantasy vs. reality.

 

[JD]

This. I also believe the moments where the show was pacifist and conflicts got solved through talking or bluffing where a result of budget constraints, it's simply cheaper to talk than it is to do visual effects.

And of course Star Trek didn't show nearly as much respect to other ways of life as some fans like to believe.How many cultures did it look down on and how many ways of life did Kirk forcibly change because they were wrong in his eyes?

I didn't necessarily mean this as a bad thing, but as much as they liked to pretend Starfleet always tried to find peaceful solutions, an awful lot of the conflicts did end in phaser fights, especially once we got to DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise. At least most of the time they weren't the aggressors, so it's not like they went into every conflict, shooting first and asking questions later.
To be honest though, I am a big action fan, and it would get kind of a boring after a while if we never got any phaser fights or ship battles, so I don't mind it really.