This is hardly new. I recall the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers doing a PSA about fantasy vs. reality.
Seth MacFarlane Created "The Orville" To Fulfill A Need Star Trek Had Abandoned
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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.
Fox also very likely thought it would give them some legal protection, as parody is a defence against copyright lawsuits. There are people who think JMS should have sued Paramount over DS9, but The Orville swipes way more from Star Trek than Star Trek did from B5, including many people behind and in front of the camera.
That MacFarlane wanted to do a serious series that was just Star Trek with some names changed does not really convince me that The Orville was a good idea. MacFarlane's created a few TV series. He didn't really create The Orville.
Honestly, even with TNG the ENTERPRISE is rated to go against Romulan battlecruisers. It also alludes to no less than three wars that occurred shortly before the series goes on, with a conflict with the Tholians, Talarerians, and Tzenkethi, plus the border dispute with the Cardassians. So, despite the insistence that Starfleet is all about peace we see, or have alluded to, several wars.
They went against the Romulans. They went against the Borg.
Seth MacFarlane Teases New Life for ‘The Orville’: “Season 4 Is Written”
The star gives The Hollywood Reporter an update on his pricey Hulu sci-fi series that has not debuted new episodes in nearly four years.
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Seth MacFarlane Teases New Life for ‘The Orville’: “Season 4 Is Written”
The star gives The Hollywood Reporter an update on his pricey Hulu sci-fi series that has not debuted new episodes in nearly four years.
i wonder what season 4 would be about
The Captain retiring and the Orville being de-commissioned after many years of service, by the time this gets made.
I'm a little shocked to see McFarlane say it would be that easy to just jump right back into production, I would think after four years they would pretty much have to start everything over from scratch, at least when it comes to sets, costumes, effects, cast, and stuff like that.
The Banana of Damocles looms high.
Perhaps, yet I snan't squirt mustard on yonder hot dog.
It's not a hotdog, it's a Frankfooter.
Oh, it'll be about ten episodes.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.
Didn't the first time that a D'deridex-class warbird was observed by the Federation occur in "The Neutral Zone", the TNG season 1 finale?
The Enterprise-D may have received upgrades over the course of her life, but she would have been designed and built without knowledge of the configuration of that type of vessel.
Maybe you mean that, during TNG, based on what they know, Starfleet estimates that a Galaxy-class is a match for a D'deridex-class?
I mean that when a Romulan Battlecruiser is sighted along their side of the Neutral Zone the ENTERPRISE is sent as "insurance" and a show of force.
So, Battlecruiser warrants a non battle capable ship?
Gotya. Exactly.
The Enterprise D was a cruise ship, and rightly so. Well more like a floating university campus. Remember the combat is a minor province in the make-up of a 2365 era starship captain
That changed swiftly with the Borg threat, and then the Dominion, and the breakdown of the relationship with the Klingons.
Those events had lasting impacts
That changed swiftly with the Borg threat, and then the Dominion, and the breakdown of the relationship with the Klingons.
Those events had lasting impacts
The Enterprise-D had something called the "battle bridge" that was literally established as such in the very first episode, to control the stardrive that contained the ship's "main armaments" when the ship's sections separated for combat or simply to confront potentially dangerous mysterious, as Picard stated in a captain's log. So, that's a nope. "Cruise ships" don't have those and can't do any of that.
Let's get to the battle center of the Love Boat!
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