Any star trek parody requires unholstered boobs floating in zero gravity. 
Maybe a thin tunic or shirt would still be Fox family friendly?
Nearly all fan fiction throws in material mainstream tv fears to address.
In the entire history of Star Trek there has been exactly one scene with zero gravity, and did not involve any boobs. (Except perhaps Dr. McCoy.)
I was referring to fan fiction parodies.
Isn’t that the idea behind The Orville? Take the funniest and most irreverent ideas from fan fiction and put them on the screen. It would have been perfect for HBO or Showtime.
They can still do some hilarious bits and spoofs on Fox.
Ill watch for awhile. I’m concerned they’ll use up their best gags in the two hour pilot.
Maybe the writers will surprise us.
They’ll have to pick a direction. Broad parody or maybe drama with a few gags. I can’t see it working if they get serious one week and do fart jokes the next week.
No.
It probably says more about me than the quality of the show that I laughed at every joke. I’ll at least put it on my list of new shows to check out.
Belly laughs are the best kind.
I like all kinds of humor from the 3 Stooges all the way to sitcoms like The Mary Tyler Moore show and Modern Family.
It’s all good.
I imagine you’re thinking of the scene with the Klingon ship in ST 6, but there was at least one other zero gravity scene, in an early episode of DS9, where Bashir has a relationship with a woman from a low gravity world who likes to turn the gravity off in her quarters.
That just takes me to the front page of YouTube. Can anyone provide another link directly to the video, and preferably not mobile?
Good point. That episode was pretty terrible tho so I guess I blocked it out. 
This is like the opposite of what they did Firefly. I forget the print ad, but they advertised it as a “jokey funny space crew” show instead of a funny real science fiction show.
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There was also a scene on VGR where the ship’s artificial gravity field failed. I remember Tuvok starting to slowly drift upward with a bemused expression.
I’ve set it up to tape. September 10!
It actually took more than a simple Google search to find. The episode was “Prey.” Artificial gravity was intentionally turned off by the species 8472 intruder, as they can apparently walk on surfaces without the use of gravity. (It also turns off the artificial atmosphere.) Not only did Tuvok bemusedly float, but Paris was shot and stunned and left floating lifelessly (except his boots which were magnetically locked). It looked cool.
The theory is that it is in the deck plating, and that the failure state is actually on, not off. Hence why gravity never gets turned off by an attack. Official canon says they continue working for a while after shut off, but will eventually run out of energy.
There was also that scene in First Contact where they fight a couple Borg drones on the outside of the Enterprise, and Worf throws an assimilated crew member off the hull.
Also Spock’s space walk in TMP.
As far as this show. I’m not a fan of McFarlane and I find it infuriating when he does something like Cosmos. We watched that but otherwise, his shows are persona non grata in my house.
Fox’s current plan for the first two episodes is, each will air on Sunday (9/10 and 9/17), and will air nationwide simultaneously, after that day’s NFL coverage - 8 Eastern, 7 Central, 6 Mountain, 5 Pacific. Either they really want people to see it, or they realize that it’s a turkey and want to prop up the ratings so they can come close to what they promised the advertisers.
In addition, in the Pacific time zone, each episode will air a second time at 8:00, resulting in the pre-emption of repeats of The Simpsons and Family Guy that will air after The Orville in the rest of the country that night.
Oh, I thought somebody said it would only be on CBS all-access, but I guess that’s Star Trek Discovery.
Been seeing adverts for this all during the 9er game today. Looks awful.
I’ve read two “professional” reviews. Both said it was too serious to be played for laughs and had too many stupid things in it to be taken seriously.
After 30 minutes, I agree.
It does look cool, though.