This show is so freaking Star Trek that it out-Star Treks the Star Trek.
Can someone open this pickle jar?
Submitted 11 months ago by FauxPseudo@lemmy.world to risa@startrek.website
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weariedfae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HedonismB0t@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Totally agree, it’s definitely more Star Trek than any of the new Star Trek series.
m_r_butts@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'll defend Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds.
Here4CatPics@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When that second episode of the first season dropped I said the same thing to a friend that’s a die hard Star Trek fan. They weren’t enjoying the new Trek, yet, but wanted the thought provoking episodes now, action later/sprinkled in
someguy3@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I heard the review “better Trek than Trek”.
m_r_butts@kbin.social 11 months ago
Held up against Discovery or JJ's movies? Absolutely better. But I don't think it's defensible to say it surpasses ALL of Trek.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 11 months ago
People keep saying this, so as someone who has only watched half of the first season, when does it get to this point?
I mean it’s amusing enough, but it’s just a pastiche of cliches and obvious gags. People keep saying that it distills Trek down to its essence or something like that, but to me it seems like “watered down” would be more accurate.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Having a bad first season is as Star Trek as you can get. All kidding aside, it gets better and more serious with time.
ramble81@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Just like TNG it starts picking up in the 2nd season and really hits its stride on the 3rd season. If you were to rewatch TNGs first season without the nostalgia goggles you’d consider it pretty campy too.
m_r_butts@kbin.social 11 months ago
For me it was really quick. S1E4, If the Stars Should Appear.
mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 11 months ago
After the first season it begins to feel a bit less campy and the crude humor is toned down a bit and even more so I feel by the third season. The overall plot starts to show itself in season 2 and just gets better from there.
negativenull@startrek.website 11 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
negativenull@startrek.website 11 months ago
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 months ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
swiggity swooty
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So which one of those guys is Orville?
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
This makes sense, we all remember Katherine Voyager Janeway
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or the Jean-Luc The-New-Generation Picard
tryitout@infosec.pub 11 months ago
They’re standing inside him.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 11 months ago
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MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Is it his birthday?
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Orville literally made me give Star Trek an actual try. I think of it as my first series of Trek.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Welcome beratna.
deezbutts@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Another one here ☝️
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Orville was such an aimless show in the beginning. Obviously it started out going for campy comedy parody but it honestly wasn’t hitting the mark on the comedy often enough. I’m stalled out somewhere in early Season 3–not because I wasn’t enjoying it, I think it’s actually gotten pretty good by that point, but just time and other commitments.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
I prefer the first seasons that they didn’t take the show too seriously. The last ones (or last one?) Was way too dense, with episodes way too long that got be bored at half episode every time.
Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree, earlier seasons had the right balance
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had the opposite experience lol! I really liked the first season, season 2 started off pretty well, but I lost interest before I got to season 3. It felt like the later episodes were either too preachy, or too focused on trying to make the characters “cool” instead of funny. I just wasn’t enjoying it any more
m_r_butts@kbin.social 11 months ago
I just got burned out on Moclan drama, and the Kaylon got a little too Star Wars for me.
m_r_butts@kbin.social 11 months ago
I love the humor in it. Gordon and Lamarr racing to deliver some news was one of the funniest goddamn things I've ever seen (trying not to spoil it if someone wants to watch and hasn't yet). But that humor was a little too juvenile at the very start. My guess has been that the earlier stuff was for the benefit of funding. They expected Family Guy in Space, so he delivered it, for a handful of episodes, then took the show where it was supposed to be.
negativenull@startrek.website 11 months ago
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 11 months ago
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uis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like how Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Tang are pretending just a collar counts as a uniform
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Until Strange New World came out, Orville was my favorite Trek since TNG.
MamboGator@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I felt the exact same way. I was okay with Discovery and Picard not being for me because I had The Orville.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I love Trek but I don’t really care for McFarlane’s sense of humor, is the Orville worth checking out anyway?
the_third@feddit.de 11 months ago
Yep. He duped Fox into paying him for a Sci-Fi comedy show and then he went and made a loving homage to Trek.
Maven@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My theory for the behind the scenes:
McFarland: I would like to make a star trek parody!
Fox: oh sounds awesome, lots of funny jokes and stuff. Should be funny.
M: yes haha, funny.
F: yes… Anyway here’s the money
Making episode one
M: I gotta make sure there’s loads of jokes so I can show this to execs and they see the haha bits
Making episode 3
M: okay I think they’re gone… Time to just literally make normal star trek episodes
making the last episode of s1
F: hey I see you’re almost done with the first season so I’m just checking in that the show is still funny
M: quickly adding in as many jokes as the last second as possible haha yes humor! Jokes! Plenty of them! Haha yes
sirjash@feddit.de 11 months ago
Yes. They tone down the humor over time
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
The drama bits are every bit as good as TNG/Voyager/DS9, but if you don’t like McFarlane’s humor, I doubt you would like the other 75% of the show’s content.
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 11 months ago
But the humour is like at its highest like 15% of the show
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’m not sure the mods are going to care honestly. I think most are in agreement that the Orville is basically star trek adjacent, and close enough that… Honestly as long as it doesn’t take over, nobody will bat an eye at the occasional Orville meme.
neptune@dmv.social 11 months ago
Wake me up when we are posting Hyperdrive memes
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Talkydoor?
soot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
SOYJAK.PARTY WON
Rhaedas@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's as much Star Trek as the unofficial Trek movie Galaxy Quest. Doesn't matter if the characters and universe are different, it's got the same vibe to fit in.
Shialac@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Orville has mor Star Trek Vibe than the most recent official shows
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
More than Discovery. Somewhat less than SNW. Not even close to Lower Decks.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Galaxy Quest is the best Trek movie
7of9@startrek.website 11 months ago
Right after First Contact and The Wrath of Khan, yes.
m_r_butts@kbin.social 11 months ago
7th best.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/12/diehard-star-trek-fans-rank-the-best-and-worst-movies
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Obviously. It’s literally TNG with juvenile humor and low stakes.
m_r_butts@kbin.social 11 months ago
Tell me you didn't finish season 1 without...
nomecks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sure there’s no actual juvenile humor in the armed forces.
Taleya@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Someone didn’t watch past ep 3