I would assume 25th Century Earth in the Orville is a paradise or close to it given the show’s Star Trek roots. I think her point was they had to dig out of a hole to get there.
We’ve decided that The Orville is actually an in-universe TV show in ST:SNW. It’s making fun of Star Fleet, like their version of McHale’s Navy or something.
More like an ‘After School Special’.
It struck me watching the latest ep that the nacelles of the ship look like a laughing mouth with the tongue hanging out when seen from straight behind. Now I can’t unsee it.
I’m not sure what the timing on open spoilers is, so just let me say that the command team fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down before coming up with that plan.
And they presumably will never be allowed to lead negotiations ever again.
Yes, the only thing worthwhile in the Janisi plot was the Laurel & Hardy-ish luggage scene. Seriously - lets totally bullshit the diplomatic representatives for a few days, then admit we were lying?
I did really like the Kaylon plot, right up until the moment K-1 deployed his head lasers. Seriously - did the engineers include head lasers in devices designed to be household servants, or did the Kaylons figure out how to install them with leftovers and household junk? It would have made a lot more sense for him to just murder the family with a knife or something.
i figured the kaylons installed them secretly in an “overthrow the biologics” plot.
or for some reason the biologics had them be “army ready”.
Am I the only one who thinks Timmis might have been K-1?
They had different actors according to imdb.
Janisi plot? Oy.
Talla Lamar? No believable chemistry. And no ability to make love gently?
Kaylon least bad. I’m actually more annoyed with the builder family being so 50s America stereotypes.
Yeah - that was humorous, and I know why they used Ed and Malloy to do it. But I’m pretty sure real world it would have been a couple of males who likely are already tasked with carrying dignitaries’ luggage (and presumably other tasks).
They were shipped with the equipment, but it was software disabled? (sort of like, per my understanding, most Tesla’s have a lot of options (maybe even Full Service Driving?) that can be software enabled if you send Elon a check). Assumed no one would break the encryption.
I think using them was part of their terrible plan - “Hey, these 2 useless idiotic men who carried your luggage? They’re actually the Captain and the helmsman! See, men aren’t all bad.”
My thought was “No medical technology to strengthen/augment his skeleton?”. They have displayed some highly advanced medical tech for quick, easy, and significant adjustments. Surely they must have some adamantium lying around.
I didn’t initially realize that what we were seeing with the domestic family scenes was the origin story of the Kaylon.
I’m reminded of “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” - there are some pretty powerful (mostly) involuntary muscle spasms associated with orgasm. It now makes me worried for his penis (and that would have been hard to explain to the doctor as “overly strenuous workout”).
They’ve been pretty consistent about not having medical ways around gravity differences, plus then John would have had to admit to the relationship and/or that it was causing his injuries (not exactly sure why he was hiding it).
I thought of the same Superman thing. Poor guy looked like he was in a rocky movie.
I was actually wondering why they didn’t use some sort of anti-gravity device to make carrying all that luggage easier. At the very least, they could have used a wheeled cart of some sort.
But it is a “because plot” reason, not a “reasonable extrapolation from the technology displayed” reason.
We haven’t seen body modifications of that type on anyone, so it is reasonable that they either don’t have the tech (unlikely based on other things we’ve seen, granted) or there are strong legal/cultural norms against it.
I would expect if adamantium bones were an available thing, everyone in the fleet would have them as a matter of regulations. Of course, still wouldn’t have prevented all the facial damage their goodbye tryst caused.
We have seen severed limbs treated as a funny prank, burns and broken bones being healed in minutes or seconds, physical apperances altered for away missions, and sex changes quick and simple enough for a robot to do them. They have extremely advanced medical technology, some explicitly related to rapid actions on bones. Absolutely they should be able to strengthen bones and muscles.