I remember the title, but I don’t believe I’ve read it. I think that I unjustly acquired a bad opinion of him from his children’s books. “Red Planet”, “Farmer in the Sky”, etc.
In the end, much like the “Simpsons did it” joke that is also mostly true. When it comes to Sci-Fi if you say “Heinlein did it”, it is probably true.
So let me get this straight…a colony that nobody knew existed before now, that has been in space for so many centuries that its history is pretty much erased and whoever got them into the mess in the first place is now treated as a god (similar to “Cloister the Stupid” with the Cat race on Red Dwarf), and uses a strange written language, manages to speak perfect English and has drugs that affect humans in the same way it affects the colonists?
I guess this is more like Star Trek than it first appeared…
One thing for sure; it’s not a comedy. I am fairly certain that the Television Academy will agree, if the show is entered for any Emmys (especially with its “by default, hour-long shows are dramas” rule).
Opposite experience for me. I read “Rocket Ship Galileo” when I was in fourth grade and that cemented my love of SF. Now admittedly, it doesn’t hold up as an adult read (if it ever did) but I should point that when I read it, the real Moon trip was still more fantasy than reality.
Actually, that’s by Fred Saberhagen.
Meh, Mockingbird would never have been captured by those chumps. My vote is that the third of the population should be encouraged to commit suicide, like holding your breath contests outside the airlock. So far the only real good idea is that the producers did not go with the prime suggestion.
So far the pilot was passable
Ep two was annoying and never finished it, its obvious that the Union does not appear to have a kobyashi maru senario, and who ever passed this chick to be an OOD clearly ought to be busted.
Ep three, reminded me somewhat of Babylon 5 and the kid whose parents did not want him to undergo a vet treatment. Annoyed because star trek was seeping through the union decks. I think real world politics would have that kid off the ship in jig time along with the spouse and sent back home, and not get into some sort of cultural conflict.
Ep four, passable. Instead of diplomacy with a stupid theocracy, salvation should have been imposed on the population and have the ship turned away from harm.
Am I missing where that DIDN’T happen? They took back Mockingbird by force, stunned their leader, went to the bridge and opened the dome for all to see the stars. They said they could have the ship running again in 24 hours. They were dealing with the underground non-believers the whole time, and had them on the bridge at the end, indicating they were running things.
They went in, figured out what was going on, realized talking with the leadership was useless and went about fixing the situation.
Golden Age, too. So “If the stars should appear” is more Asimov than Emerson?
Yeah, duh. First thing I thought of was Nightfall.
Thanks, I like the Vlad Tapes series.
Shadowed by girl bonding with the first officer, she was one pissed off alien.
I do think Mercer should have stopped the injection and said, “If that is not the antidote, I am so going to kill your ass.”
At first I thought the drug was going to have the opposite effect on humans and send Grayson into an orgasmic state.
But yeah, references upon reference. Ted Sturgeon would say, “This isn’t crap,” though Shore Leave kinda was.
It’s Emerson; “Nightfall” attributes the quote to him immediately. But Macfarland probably came across it there.
ALARA: As Low As Reasonably Achievable is a principle in radiation shielding. Wonder if that’s purposefully done by the producers?
I really doubt that was purposefully done. It seems to be too obscure an acronym.
That said, I’ve enjoyed the show so far. And I’ve only seen the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery, but was only so-so on that. So I hope this is the 30 Rock to CBS’s equivalent of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I was disappointed that the critic rating at Rotten Tomatoes for this show is only 20% while the one for Star Trek: Discovery is 86%.
I wondered about that myself… 
Wow does that ever look backwards.
I find that mystifying. The Orville isn’t Breaking Bad and I understand if it’s not one’s cup of tea, but 20%? Do they not get it?
Oh, “Young Sheldon” is running at 74%. Its progenitor, “The Big Bang Theory,” one of the worst sitcoms of modern times to have a long run, is at 83. Uh huh.
One inappropriate joke (by the pilot, of course) the rest made sense in the shows context. They kid around- just like real people do.
Sad isnt it?