THE ORVILLE Season Two...

[picardjean-luc]

Based from the titles, here are my guesses for the plots for each remaining episodes. 'Blood of Patriots' is more or less confirmed from this week's promo trailer:

'Blood of Patriots' = The Union and The Krill tries to form an alliance in light of 'Identity' events. Looks like it doesn't go well.

'Lasting Impressions' = Another light-hearted, interpersonal episode. Is Ed having another go to woo Kelly? Is Claire getting a new partner? Perhaps Bortus and Klyden finally reconciles?

'Sanctuary' = Either Teleya or Locar manages to escape from their home planet and seeks asylum at the Orville, triggering another diplomatic crisis with either the Krill or the Moclans.

'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' = A 'groundhog day in space' episode, like TNG's 'Cause and Effect.'

'Road Not Taken' (season's finale) = Orville's take on 'Yesterday's Enterprise.' Also the likeliest show where

Spoiler

Halston Sage/Alara is going to make a guest appearance, per JP/Egostatic Funtime info. If this indeed is about the Orville in an alternate timeline, she's probably going to play the AU Alara in this episode

Another speculation: One of these episodes is directed by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis is also supposed to guest star in it. Care to guess which one is it going to be ??

 

[Mudd]

"Can I ask why we have to dress like dorks?"

"It's a science fiction show."

"Could I at least have a jacket with lots of zippers?"

 

[Mudd]

Huh? In what capacity? Maybe I should wonder that about you. So, I can be just as mean and rude as anyone else here. For civility's sake, and the rules, I'm not replying as I did on my "Facebook" posts in which I thought that I was getting through to here. Typos, bad grammar, et cetera, aren't the only things that I reacted too, I reacted to attitudes has well.

A long time ago, I was one of those that warned random people on the Internet, since the whole population wasn't on it, that people should not write things down that would get them a fat lip or worse, were they to do say it in person. But yet, on-line bullying is still a thing. I too, try to heed my own advice.

Exchanging written words, just does not give me the same physical satisfaction that I get from confronting someone in person about what he or she said or did.

Hmm. So, is it worth it to me to, "preserve" you? Well, heck! I'm not one of the Preservers, and neither are you. I don't intend to stuff you in a jar labeled, "preserves". I would not let you do that to me. But I would toss a Life Preserver to you, as I would hope that you would do for me. I would only toss you off of a preserve, if you were causing harm. Hmm. So which context do you mean there, your Reverendship?

This is unintelligible.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Based from the titles, here are my guesses for the plots for each remaining episodes. 'Blood of Patriots' is more or less confirmed from this week's promo trailer:

'Lasting Impressions' = Another light-hearted, interpersonal episode. Is Ed having another go to woo Kelly? Is Claire getting a new partner? Perhaps Bortus and Klyden finally reconciles?

Lasting Impressions press release

 

[picardjean-luc]

Lasting Impressions press release

Thanks!! I guess

Spoiler

the episode will be a 'Gossip Girl' reunion involving Talla and the guest character

 

[OCD Geek]

Lasting Impressions press release

Spoiler: Guest star

"Leighton Meester ("Gossip Girl") Guest-Stars"

Yay! *pours one out for Making History*

 

[RJDiogenes]

If you draw dicks on a wall, how quickly does the ship rub them all off?

Bad choice of words there.

 

[The Wormhole]

The ship is self cleaning.

If you draw dicks on a wall, how quickly does the ship rub them all off?

Depends on how long before the ship's cleaning cycle they were drawn.

 

[The Wormhole]

Titles and airdates for the remainder of the season.

3-07-2019 Blood of Patriots
3-14-2019 Lasting Impressions
3-21-2019 Sanctuary
3-28-2019 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
4-04-2019 Road Not Taken


Is this it for the show on Fox? Who knows...

BTW, this needs to be updated. Both IMDB and Wikipedia show Lasting Impressions will air on March 21 (meaning everything after it will be knocked back a week) and my cable service is showing Orville won't be on March 14.

Curiously, this will mean the finale will now be on April 11, one week before Disco's (currently planned for April 18). Looks like those shows are staying neck and neck for most of their second seasons.

 

[BillJ]

I hope the show gets a third season. It is the Star Trek reboot that I've wanted for a really, really long time.

 

[Mudd]

It's kind of the show I wanted in 1987.

 

[BillJ]

It's kind of the show I wanted in 1987.

I was sixteen in 1987, the only thing that I knew I wanted without a doubt was to touch a girl's boob.

 

[The Wormhole]

I like to call The Orville the Star Trek series I've waited my whole life for. And it's true, this show is doing things I've wished Star Trek would do since I was still a child.

 

[Mudd]

I used to object that the show is more clearly inspired by TOS than by TNG. Fact is, though, that the look and fictional tech of it borrows heavily from Berman-era Trek and very little from TOS.

The scope of narrative is very much more TOS than anything that followed, however - they like to tell big, sweeping stories in broad strokes, and they jam a lot of plot into an hour. Like much television of the 1950s and 1960s, scripts play like a treatment for a film - covering the story high points and major scenes as if abstracted from what would be a longer and probably more expensive movie if they went into detail.

A better way to describe it now, is that it seems to me very much what we might have gotten in ST:TNG if many of the folks in charge had really embraced the original source material - the Star Trek television series of the 1960s - and brought it up to date rather than being apparently embarrassed by and afraid of it while mimicking the tone and out-of-date formality of it. The producers, from Roddenberry on down, ran away from so much of what Trek was, as hard as they could.

 

[BillJ]

Just finished watching "Identity, Part 2". The Orville is easily my favorite show on TV. It just hits so many great notes and has this big heart that is missing in so much entertainment now.

 

[eschaton]

I used to object that the show is more clearly inspired by TOS than by TNG. Fact is, though, that the look and fictional tech of it borrows heavily from Berman-era Trek and very little from TOS.

The scope of narrative is very much more TOS than anything that followed, however - they like to tell big, sweeping stories in broad strokes, and they jam a lot of plot into an hour. Like much television of the 1950s and 1960s, scripts play like a treatment for a film - covering the story high points and major scenes as if abstracted from what would be a longer and probably more expensive movie if they went into detail.

A better way to describe it now, is that it seems to me very much what we might have gotten in ST:TNG if many of the folks in charge had really embraced the original source material - the Star Trek television series of the 1960s - and brought it up to date rather than being apparently embarrassed by and afraid of it while mimicking the tone and out-of-date formality of it. The producers, from Roddenberry on down, ran away from so much of what Trek was, as hard as they could.

I dunno. I'm getting a big DS9 vibe from this season that I didn't really get from the first season. Not so much tonally, but the focus on character growth which spans across episodes, actions having consequences, and the dual focus on interpersonal relationships and (now) plotlines of epic proportions.

 

[Mudd]

Or, most hour-longs since around 1990.

 

[The Wormhole]

No, no. Clearly this originated with DS9, because as you know, television revolves around Star Trek.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

The Orville is coming to Dark Horse Comics in July!

The 4-issue mini series will be written by David A. Goodman, who's an EP on the show, and it will be set in-between seasons 1 and 2, telling two 2-part stories.

 

[The Wormhole]

[STAR TREK FAN MODE]But will it be canon?[/STAR TREK FAN MODE]