I'm excited. Real Star Trek is back. Discovery has been a fine copy so far this year and the cartoons are fine but now we get the real stuff again!
Oh, if we're doing the golden oldies from 2017, you forgot this part:
THIS ISN'T REAL STAR TREK REAL STAR TREK IS ON FREE TV WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO GET SOME STREAMING SERVICE WHEN IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE ON FREE TV LIKE IT ALWAYS WAS I'M NOT WATCHING THIS RIPOFF CRAP
Problem is The Orville is now on Hulu meaning everything is behind a paywall
making the only real Trek coming from fan fiction.
Amen.For the sake of context: I've watched every episode of The Orville, bought some of the comics, and bought the first season soundtrack CD. But they are not the hell your whales and The Orville is not the hell real Star Trek.
Well, yes, that's my point. One of the dumber arguments the pro-Orville, anti-Discovery brigade used four years ago was that The Orville, by virtue of being on regular TV, was thereby more real Star Trek than Discovery. Which would mean The Orville was more real Star Trek than any of the Star Trek movies, because movie tickets cost money. The real reason The Orville isn't the real Star Trek is because it takes more than putting TNG and Voyager reruns in a blender on puree, changing some names, and adding dick jokes to make Star Trek.
No, the real Star Trek of the last several years is Discovery, Short Treks, Picard, Lower Decks, and Prodigy, and soon Strange New Worlds. Just as some people struggled to accept The Next Generation in 1987 (I was 24 then, and believe me, there were people who loudly declared TNG wasn't real Star Trek), so too the new shows are real Star Trek, despite all the people this time around who are stuck in the 1990s. You may have noticed that, despite the haters, The Next Generation didn't go away, it stuck around and had several spinoffs, all of which are real Star Trek. Same shit, different decade.
Well, yes, that's my point. One of the dumber arguments the pro-Orville, anti-Discovery brigade used four years ago was that The Orville, by virtue of being on regular TV, was thereby more real Star Trek than Discovery.
Exactly. If you can't talk about The Orville without bashing another show,
I'm excited. Real Star Trek is back. Discovery has been a fine copy so far this year and the cartoons are fine but now we get the real stuff again!
Move those goal posts.
I post a lot about The Orville without mentioning STD. I also post some about how shitty the Trek show is, all on its own.
So do other people.
You're just in here today making the negative comparison between the two all on your own, attributing it to other people, and then using that to dramatize some imaginary complaint about other fans based on a few examples that you're holding onto.
It's transparent and tiresome.Stop it.
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