The Orville is Star Trek for people who don’t want to pay for Star Trek.
I already have the boxed sets.
that crap CBS is putting out aint Star trek.
I’ve got the TOS box sets. No bloody A, B, C, D, E, or remastered!
Klyden is lonely. Gelatinous alien is lonely. Hope this doesn’t go where I think it’s going…
Damn right.
Wait, the Gorn blinks!
Don’t go there.
I will pay money not to go there.
How does an all male species have this men are from Mars, women are from Venus thing? I like Klingon males serenading Klingon women while the women throw furniture at them better.
Yes, he did, just like me. But the added layers of reference of SF have always made it more for the smart and less for the stupid.
The stupid people read poetry?
Without starting a fight, and based on my experience, complex poetry? No. Hallmark cards? Not really. Much more like, “That’s nice! Where’s the money?”
Klyden was Tyreese on the Walking Dead.
And the Orville is more like Star Trek than Star Trek is right now.
He ended up wearing it in a ST:TNG flashback (or maybe a nightmare) scene: http://lobablanca.com/blog09/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/7longandstraight.jpg
For all we know, a Moclin child is a Moclin citizen no matter where it’s born, and Moclin law still applies.
Good catch! Thought I recognized it.
The Union. But an understandable mistake!
Yes, I think we’ll be seeing a Mercer/Alara romance episode sometime. Likely plot points: the Captain frets about the propriety of dating a subordinate, we hear some jokes about life-threatening rough sex, and the XO finds herself unexpectedly jealous.
No, The Captain checked with the Admiralty and etc, and he made it clear that changing that kids sex on the ship would be very illegal.
The likeliest answer is that it simply hadn’t come up before. Moclan females, according to Isaac, are only born about once every 75 Earth years, and it appears likely that they haven’t been members of the Union for that long, with Mercer saying Bortus was the first Moclan he’d met, and the Moclan being unfamiliar enough with Earth culture to assume that Kermit the Frog was a real person. This was probably the first time a Moclan female had ever been born on a Union vessel and there was no settled way to deal with it.
I’m a bit late to the party…
I like it. It’s nearly exactly like TNG, down to the episode structure, music at commercial breaks. It’s an alternate universe TNG and it’s filling a void in my life I didn’t know I had (don’t read too deeply into that). Which means at some point Paramount is going to sue the pants off FOX.
I don’t know if the series has legs or not, but I’m enjoying it while it lasts.
I knew Federation was wrong but quickly decided it would work anyway and didn’t feel like looking up the correct term. It does appear to be the Federation in all but name.
And a whole lot more spaceships.
At first I thought it should have no effect on her; she would just sneer at them at say “I’m an alien, you idiots!” and the leader would get a few nervous glances from his subordinates at this suspension of business as usual. Then later when the rescue party shows up, they’d untie her and she’d immediate grab the “antidote” and try to inject it, but her hands would be shaking too much, so she’d order the doctor to do it, who would be hesitant but would comply. Only then would Grayson relax - it turns out the drug did work, somewhat, but she wasn’t going to give this primitive son-of-a-bitch the satisfaction.
That is freakin’ brilliant.
Liking the series so far.
I think they missed a good line on the generation ship. When somebody said “it was beautiful” another crew member should have said “yeah, looks a lot like southern California”.
The reality series thing was a hoot (and would probably be true as well).
Damn, got to get my computer fixed. I hate typing on this thing.
That is really good! Good thinking!
I enjoyed this episode but can also nit pick and I wanted something like that as well.