As long as it's not the series finale: "The Orville: The Motion Picture". That would be a mangled mess...
But, in seriousness, a one-off like that would be interesting and you nailed the plot marvelously.
Will The Orville ever get transporters?
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As long as it's not the series finale: "The Orville: The Motion Picture". That would be a mangled mess...
But, in seriousness, a one-off like that would be interesting and you nailed the plot marvelously.
like i said.. there are transporters,... just not any used by the PU, Krill, Mocclans, or even the Laylon. .. the Calivon used it in Command Performance (the second episode) and Pria (from the future) used it
I'm a little Kate to the party, I know, but here we go...
At the end of "Pria", Mercer holds up Pria's transporter device, describes it, then puts it in a drawer. Pria vanishes, but we don't know that the device did, too.
That seems like a deliberate choice to add such a device to their toolbox. It's future technology whose workings are unknown. I don't expect Mercer to deliberately try to have it reverse-engineered, but I can see an episode where he proposes using it to solve an unsolveable problem despite objections from at least Grayson. Maybe there is a quasi-philosophical debate about the dangers of using future technology. Maybe he decides not to and then someone else does for the deus ex machina.
I don't know for sure that such a story element could be done well, but it's exactly the kind of thing we see frequently in science-fiction.
Anyway, just a thought!
Love,
Kate
At the end of "Pria", Mercer holds up Pria's transporter device, describes it, then puts it in a drawer. Pria vanishes, but we don't know that the device did, too.
That seems like a deliberate choice to add such a device to their toolbox. It's future technology whose workings are unknown. I don't expect Mercer to deliberately try to have it reverse-engineered, but I can see an episode where he proposes using it to solve an unsolveable problem despite objections from at least Grayson. Maybe there is a quasi-philosophical debate about the dangers of using future technology. Maybe he decides not to and then someone else does for the deus ex machina.
I don't know for sure that such a story element could be done well, but it's exactly the kind of thing we see frequently in science-fiction.
Anyway, just a thought!
Love,
Kate
First they'll have to get a fourth season...
I guess you didn't like Future Unknown?
No, because as I said in another thread, transporters are the one and only big thing lawyers can point to in order to differentiate The Orville from being unlicensed Star Trek.
Not only should transporters not be included, they are totally not necessary at this point. The show has done just fine without them, and as others have pointed out, they are either story killers or the worst sort of plot-devices for substandard episodes.
Two things the Orville has done very well without are transporters and any form of the Prime Directive. Let it stay that way. This show is rocking it.
Two things the Orville has done very well without are transporters and any form of the Prime Directive. Let it stay that way. This show is rocking it.
Oh, I think that theory's been taken out and shot.
If Orville had transporters, whatever they actually called them, there's not a damn thing Paramount could do about it.
Although I agree with the general thrust of the gist in that Orville probably won't have them. I'm sure MacFarlane just wants to leave it alone.
Maybe they'll have something like Dark Matter's Transfer Transit?
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Ever seen "Queen of Outer Space"?
"Mad Idolatry" and "Future Unknown" seem to say otherwise...
Yeah, they've sort of beaten around the bush on that a bit but generally, it doesn't exist in the Orville in any sort of stringent form the way it does in Trek.
There was an episode of (the new) Outer Limits called "Think Like A Dinosaur" in which pretty much that very thing happened.
The only reason "Star Trek" has transporters is because in the 1960s they didn't have the budget to film shuttle craft scenes every time they went down to a planet, and needed a quick literary device to get Kirk's landing party from the Enterprise to the paper mache jungles. By the time TNG aired, the transporters were so ingrained into "Star Trek" canon that the writers probably wouldn't dare attempting to retcon them out.
"Orville" was just lucky not to have a pre-established canon with a rabid fan base to adhere to.
"Orville" was just lucky not to have a pre-established canon with a rabid fan base to adhere to.
One of the original intentions for Enterprise (the series) was that there wouldn't be a transporter at all, but UPN got upset and said "it's not Star Trek without a transporter" so the transporter had to be included, even if they did use the shuttlepods more often instead.
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