# Animated Star Trek Comedy coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek-comedy-coming/823502 "2018-10-25T16:28:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek-comedy-coming/823502/21 "2018-10-26T20:57:43Z")
In fairness, _The Orville_ is average as shows go (though the last episode of Season 1 was pretty decent). It’s just that, in comparison to _Voyager_, _Enterprise_, and the “reboot” movies, it’s a significant step up. Which is fine with me. I’m quite happy they renewed for Season 2. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek-comedy-coming/823502/22 "2018-10-27T02:41:55Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Only if it uses [”One Way Ticket to Pluto”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6hBGr_GauM) as the title music. > > It is long past time that someome just puts the entire _Star Trek_ franchise out of its collective misery. From trying to revive itself by bringing back a 78 year old actor for nostalgia value to an animated comedy series to whatever the fuck they are trying to appeal to with _Discovery_, it is more done that a chicked fried steak. There are plenty of other science fiction-y/space opera properties out there begging for adaptation. _Known Space_, Asimov, Heinlein, Harry Harrison…and sure, whoever adapts them will almost certainly bowdlerize the source material but at least it will be something new. _Star Trek_ ran out of steam so long ago it has become a painfully unfunny self-parody of reinvention. > > Stranger Star Trek could be saved - if someone in charge of it decided to understand what Roddenberry did and why we are still talking about it 52 years later. Roddenberry was hopeful. His successors hated that. Roddenberry very specifically did not want the show to be about a war. I gave up on DS9 as the Dominion War dragged on and on and on. I watched TOS from the first episode, and I agree with you that it is time to kill it. I am going to checkout the Orville, though. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek-comedy-coming/823502/23 "2018-10-27T03:07:17Z")
_The Orville_ is basically Seth MacFarlane’s big budget _TNG_ cosplay. So, it’s basically a pretty good substitute with the occasional PG dick joke…which puts it head and shoulders above _Voyager_ and so far ahead of everything that came after that if CBS actually wants to continue making a _Star Trek_ show they should just negotiate the rights and fold it in. I mean, it doesn’t have anything to do with the continuity of _Star Trek_ but as far as I can tell neither does _Discovery_. Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek-comedy-coming/823502.md?page=1)