Will The Orville ever get transporters?
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I'm glad they made that decision to leave that out. There are a lot of episodes where they would have had to make up reasons they don't work to have a dramatic ending. Any time a crew member is being held on a planet there'd need to be too much interference in the atmosphere or something. Making them land a shuttle and physically retrieve something creates opportunities for drama and near misses.
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I wasn't hoping for transporters, it was more a question of why they copied everything else except for that. The Orville started out as a parody in my opinion but things seem to have shifted slightly more serious and the stories are getting to be TNG quality.
MacFarlane said he prefers to have the characters using shuttles to leave the ship. Therefore, there was no need for transporters.
That assumption is the same mistake professional critics made. It was never a parody. While it takes a few digs at Trek, that's not the goal.
Transporters are rubbish. There, I said it. 
They're good from a production cost-saving angle, but horrible otherwise, at least for transporting living entities. Like one person said, they're story-killers. That's one of the things I like about Enterprise--they use shuttles for people and transporters for inanimate objects.
They're good from a production cost-saving angle, but horrible otherwise, at least for transporting living entities. Like one person said, they're story-killers. That's one of the things I like about Enterprise--they use shuttles for people and transporters for inanimate objects.
They don't really need them. Plus they don't have network executives pushing it on them. Berman and Braga didn't really want to use transporters at all on Enterprise but the UPN executives demanded it.
It's not an assumption, it's my opinion, as I stated.
Fine. Then it's an opinion shared by professional critics that flies in the face of evidence gathered by actually watching the show. Opinions can be just as wrong as assumptions.
Opinions are only wrong to those who don't share them.
Opinions can be based on fact, or they can be rubbish. Everyone has the right to express an opinion but all opinions are not equal.
Charlize Theron's character, from the future, had transporter tech on the Orville. The aliens from the human Zoo episode used transporter to steal Ed and Kelly.
Last Week, in All the World is Birthday Cake... That there was a Prime Directive episode plain and simple.
So was the planet Reditt episode last year. The Blond alien with the nice hair cut from that one, she is the kid side kick on Punisher this year.
Which is fine for the super aliens. Not for the protagonists.
You're entirely wrong.
Orville contact stories are the kind you can do when you toss the PD in the rubbish bin where it belongs. Good for them.
It was a first contact episode.
There is canon to suggest that the prime directive applies to post warp cultures too which amounts to obeying foreign laws in foreign places and not handing out technology or ideas.
First contact means that how the prime directive applies to one particular planet transitions from one section of the regulations to another section, but it's all about non-interference and respecting natural development.
Taking Kelly and Bortus was an act of war.
Cities should have been leveled until they were returned.
Instead the Union did nothing, because the customs of weird aliens have to be respected as if they are not weird, which sounds like a non interference policy to me.
There is canon to suggest that the prime directive applies to post warp cultures too which amounts to obeying foreign laws in foreign places and not handing out technology or ideas.
First contact means that how the prime directive applies to one particular planet transitions from one section of the regulations to another section, but it's all about non-interference and respecting natural development.
Taking Kelly and Bortus was an act of war.
Cities should have been leveled until they were returned.
Instead the Union did nothing, because the customs of weird aliens have to be respected as if they are not weird, which sounds like a non interference policy to me.
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I would like to see an episode where transporters are introduced only to have a standard transporter accident that wreaks havoc of some sort on the crew. Then the conclusion of the episode is that this technology is too dangerous for use aboard a starship and it is sent back to the drawing board until it can be perfected.
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