Would you like Seth McFarlande creating a Trek comedy?

[Mudd]

This is true. I don't wish The Orville were Star Trek at all - it's a little less than in some ways, so much better in so many - I just wish its future was less tentative than is possible with a broadcast network science fiction series.

We're good for season two, but I'd like it to go on a lot longer than I suspect it will.

 

[nightwind1]

Having seen the first year of The Orville and what Discovery has turned out to be, it's clear that MacFarlane should be given the keys to the Star Trek TV franchise.

No

 

[fireproof78]

No

Agreed

 

[Mudd]

Yep.

 

[Jayson1]

I'm not sure I would turn the keys over as in making him the next RIck Berman. Clearly that is the job I should have. Allowing him to create a Trek show though would be a great idea though now that we got "Orville" I am not sure what he could do that is different. Maybe he could do my dream Trek mini-series that brings back many of the Berman era characters and actors and sort of brings closure to that part of Trek history. Put him in charge, get many writers from that era to write a episode, get Frakes to direct the entire thing. Final scene somehow involves Picard,Sisko,Janeway and even Archer doing something though what that something is I am not certain.

Jason

 

[Australis]

No and no.

 

[OldTrekker719]

F- No. Might as well turn Star Trek over to that ginger haired sex fiend after he is done ruining The Avengers, or whatever he is bastardizing right now.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

He did make one. It's called The Orville.

 

[OldTrekker719]

He did make one. It's called The Orville.

He SHOULD of called it "The Wilbur" ..Then they could of done a bunch of Mr Ed. references.

 

[Matthew Raymond]

He SHOULD of called it "The Wilbur" ..Then they could of done a bunch of Mr Ed. references.

Then people would have actually thought it was a reboot of Mr. Ed and complained about them showing a sci-fi show instead.

 

[OldTrekker719]

Then people would have actually thought it was a reboot of Mr. Ed and complained about them showing a sci-fi show instead.

heheheh, That voice WOULD of been good for voice overs - "Hello, I'm Mr. Ed. Space,,The final frontier..Hey, Where in this Galaxy can I get some Hay?"

 

[Phaser Two]

This is true. I don't wish The Orville were Star Trek at all - it's a little less than in some ways, so much better in so many - I just wish its future was less tentative than is possible with a broadcast network science fiction series.

We're good for season two, but I'd like it to go on a lot longer than I suspect it will.

It's on Fox, right? I wonder if the fears of their reduction in broadcast programming are well grounded.

 

[fireproof78]

Then people would have actually thought it was a reboot of Mr. Ed and complained about them showing a sci-fi show instead.

That's ok. Lucille Ball never thought highly of "Star Trek" and it's failure to trek with Hollywood stars.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Seth MacFarlane is already doing a Trek parody, Orville.

The Orville is a pastiche/tribute, not a parody despite the funny aspects.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

That's ok. Lucille Ball never thought highly of "Star Trek" and it's failure to trek with Hollywood stars.

I thought Lucille Ball was the reason we have Star Trek in the first place, or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

 

[fireproof78]

I thought Lucille Ball was the reason we have Star Trek in the first place, or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

She is, but she truly didn't know what the show was about.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Ah ok, I see what you mean now

It's one of those sorts of questions you always wonder, 'why did no one ask this?'

 

[The Wormhole]

The Orville is a pastiche/tribute, not a parody despite the funny aspects.

You quoted a post I made in April 2017. A year ago, which was also five months before the show premiered, and at least one month before the first photos and trailer were posted online. Based on the available information to me April 1, 2017 (when the post was written) I used the term parody. I now know this was an error, having actually watched the show and seen what it actually is. But back then, I had no way of knowing otherwise. It really is a dick move to "correct" someone's post a year after they wrote it with knowledge that wasn't available to them at the time they wrote it.

 

[fireproof78]

Ah ok, I see what you mean now

It's one of those sorts of questions you always wonder, 'why did no one ask this?'

from what I've read (and that could be in accurate but I've seen it a couple of times) she simply thought it was a show following Hollywood stars. She apparently didn't see footage, just the name on reports.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

You quoted a post I made in April 2017. A year ago, which was also five months before the show premiered, and at least one month before the first photos and trailer were posted online. Based on the available information to me April 1, 2017 (when the post was written) I used the term parody. I now know this was an error, having actually watched the show and seen what it actually is. But back then, I had no way of knowing otherwise. It really is a dick move to "correct" someone's post a year after they wrote it with knowledge that wasn't available to them at the time they wrote it.

I'm sorry, I made a call, and that call was wrong, I admit. But I made it.