In the episode, they had communications with the planet before they went down there. Presumably, the planet sent up “Here’s how our language works” instructions beforehand.
Johnny and Suzy at Aron City.
Johnny and Donny Osmond at the North pole.
“Einstein, doing thing over and expecting different results.”
And thermonuclear exchange. Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, dancing, and thermonuclear exchange.
That sounds cool. Do you know the episode title?
It’s implicit, unless we’ve got a bunch of people who dislike all of “Star Trek” but still watch “The Orville”. I guess there might be some people like that, if they are into McFarlane’s other shows, but since this is supposed to mostly be an extension of classic Trek by Trek veterans now that CBS no longer has any interest in making that, I think it should be judged as such.
Darmok. (Season 5, Episode 2)
It’s a polarizing episode – the concept is interesting, and the interplay between Picard and the alien captain (Paul Warfield) is very good, but the logistics behind such a language are fairly absurd (and there was a thread on this board a few weeks ago specifically about it).
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That and presumably they could hack into various systems and analyze years of TV, radio and literature to figure things out.
Those poor people…
Can man (in this case Dr. Finn) and machine find happiness together? I’m pretty sure ST:TNG mined this concept with more than one Data-centric episode, yet this one still felt fresh, and for me at least, Penny Johnson and Mark Jackson’s performances were realistic and quite touching. Also welcomed the return of some of the goofball humor that was mostly absent from the past couple episodes. ROFled over the scene with LaMarr and Malloy racing each other to the bridge to blurt out the latest gossip, and Isaac lounging around in wife-beater and tighty whities.
Easily my favorite of the second season so far.
Minor correction-Paul Winfield.
This was pretty shaggy, and sometimes cringey. But there was enough gold among the dross that I give it three stars.
IMO this show has to get alot wrong…because it has Parody/Spoof DNA.
This isn’t the new show that rights all the wrongs of other shows, it lives (in part) to glorify Kirk humping everything without a penis, to spot light the bad last second save and wrap up…etc.
YMMV
Don’t forget the episode(s) of Voyager where Janeway got it on with a holodeck hunk. Or the ones of TNG where Riker was boinking a holographic barroom floozy.
I don’t think they actually boinked. They didn’t have time.
I laughed at Yaphit coming on to the doctor as Norm McDonald (who does Yaphit’s voice).
I’d say it’s a fairly classic science fiction sort of question about a human interacting with a true artificial intelligence. Done well (and I think that overall the episode did), it can seem familiar but not derivative. That Isaac is only there to collect information and has no interest in being more human means that the story should be different than an episode like “In Theory” (which I actually don’t remember, but have seen others reference, so I read the synopsis.) The humor seemed well-balanced as well and I love that the closest thing to a B-plot was Bortus growing a mustache.
Isaac was the real Isaac, too.
I thought this episode was cringey and very funny. Isaac lounging in his undies and brushing off the doctor was hilarious. It was also kind of sweet how the crew was pissed off at Isaac after that. Isaac’s redemption with the romantic scene in the rain on the bridge was goofy but fun parody. Props to the actress who plays the doctor. She did a good job of playing it straight in such a silly episode.
Definitely my favorite episode of the season so far.
ETA: Oh! And I liked Bortus with the mustache. He should have kept it!
I usually gripe about the romance in this show but this was my favorite episode yet. It was just so sweet and fun and funny but the sci-fi was there in full force.