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MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• yukichigai@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Really early on, too. It was one of the things that made me go "oh wait this isn't just fart jokes in space".

  Though to be fair, the reality is that no matter how advanced we get there's still gonna be fart jokes in space. That scene in the cafeteria where everyone's getting Bortus to eat random things seems like a far more realistic vision of a space-faring future.

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  • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Orville is Star Trek if the federation actually had to recruit real people.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Though to be fair, the reality is that no matter how advanced we get there’s still gonna be fart jokes in space. That scene in the cafeteria where everyone’s getting Bortus to eat random things seems like a far more realistic vision of a space-faring post-scarcity future.

    This is exactly why I love lower decks, it’s so much closer to how we would probably act in the 24th century vs the heroized live action stuff lmao

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    • exocrinous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Enterprise bridge crew are the best of the best. Lower Decks is a story about the mediocre of the mediocre

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      • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ehh. Mighta been born that way (even that’s debatable) but definitely not anymore. Tendi is the ass-kicking heir to a pirate dynasty, Rutherford is an insanely talented and obsessive engineer, Beckett seems borderline unbearable in hand-to-hand combat and explicitly dodges promotions, and Boimler is Boimler.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lower decks is painful to watch

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      • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Really? I’m curious, you don’t like the humor or what is it?

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah ‘if the stars should appear’ was the point all of us sat up and went “HELLO”

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s an unpopular opinion given how reasonably popular Below Deck and SNW appear to be, but The Orville, for me, is the best post-2002 Trek thing.

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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve watched some of the Orville season 1 and I can’t believe that claim. What season does it get good?

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    • swordsmanluke@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Season 1 is wildly uneven. Some episodes are a TV-14 Seth McFarland raunchy comedy in space and others are Star Trek, but with real people. If you don’t enjoy the (admittedly purile) sense of humor, The Orville probably isn’t for you. The show never completely abandons that tone even as it explores more classic Trek style writing.

      There are some episodes though, like S01E08 which are played almost totally straight and those are the ones that feel the most like a TNG revival to me.

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      • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        1.04-end of S1 (with the exception of Cupid’s Dagger) are rock fucking solid. I remember when it first aired, first three eps, eh it’s something to watch on a boring shift …then If the stars should appear, pria, krill. GODDAMN at that point I was salivating for the next ep and it did not disappoint. I absolutely adore the concept of New Dimensions as well.

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If i had to do an inteo ep: Krill.

      Starts with the crew getting a bridge officer to eat a cactus, ends on a damning note about the cycle of hate

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• hglman@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They save them in tos as well.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In TOS Kirk really leans into not interfering with the “healthy” development of a civilization. If it isn’t healthy in his judgement, he interferes. So, essentially when it comes to Kirk if it offends his sensibilities he takes free reign to change it while paying lip service to the idea of non-intervention.

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    • zaphod@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Colonialism at its finest! The Apple is the absolute perfect example. “But bones, these people don’t even f*CK! We gotta destroy that lizard cave!”

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only because Kirk hadn’t banged them yet.

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      (yes I’m adding to my joke hours later. do something about it. bitch.)

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  • zaphod@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but in TOS we also see what happens if you forget a book about chicago gangsters on a developing planet.

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And they even had an episode that explained why the Union had a “Prime Directive” and what happened when they tried to introduce new technology to a planet that wasn’t ready for it.

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  • hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Isn’t that also part of the ST lore? Or did I mix up The Orville and Star Trek canon… :/

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I liked We Are Legion where Bob is like “Fuck this! I’m making sure this species thrives, even if I have to kill half the planet to do it.”. Also regarding genocide, the Bobs were like “file as ‘think about this later’ on our TODO list”.

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  • jaemo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol Bob went a level above genocide in the end there. Artificial stellar nova is a bad day for every species in a solar system…

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That was one of the coolest scenes I’ve read before. The sheer magnitude of their destruction was unbelievable.

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      • NotAtWork@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bob decided to delete the great filter.

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      • jaemo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For real. Every now and again I go back JUST for that passage. So so good.

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