If they didn’t do it, all these people would invade Star Trek discovery reviews.  I call it a public service.

It wouldn’t even work as a time machine for humans. We aren’t born with teeth, so any test would be useless. They could have just then gone to ask for Kelly and Bortus to be checked, because it wouldn’t have likely worked on either of them to show when they were actually born..

They probably have a lot of followers on twitter..

But looking down on people isn’t at all about the nature superstition. It’s about feeling superior about ones own beliefs, and that’s what episodes like these are all about.

It is trying deliberately trying to evoke a sense of nostalgia for 80s science fiction in general and TNG in particular with the odd dollop of Kirk stuff thrown in there. So, by being 30 years out of date, The Orville is achieving exactly what it is going for. More modern stuff like The Expanse and Killjoys come a…

Well, he does have years of experience acting on a show where the idea was always that the Starfleet crew always had to be morally superior to who every they came across.  I’m sure he felt quite at home.

No more than I have of JJ Abrams cribbing from Galaxy Quest blatantly and wholesale when he decided what he wanted his new Star Trek series to draw its inspiration from.

Why? Did you assume that you could troll Discovery discussion boards without anyone calling your silly outrage out? But fine.  I’ll back off. 

When you actually have shown that you’ve learned anything from any of the Star Trek you’ve ever watched, then maybe. 

All this person seems to be able to say is they hate the show and they don’t enjoy watching it or have any interest in anything else but engaging in hyperbolic attacks.

There have always been diminishing returns sticking to Gene’s vision.  that’s why he was fired from Trek not once, not twice, but three times.  Didn’t Scotty have a saying about fooling him more than once?  Oh, yes, I believe that was a saying invented in Russia.

Season 3 still managed 10 decent episodes for all of how people think down on it, which is better than most seasons of Trek that came after.

Roddenberry had a habit of getting fired from Star Trek.

Could we have the luxury of not putting up with your whinging after every single episode? At what point are you going to give it up? Season 3? 4? 5?

Funny. Its the geezers who demand that every story is wrapped up in a bow after 45 minutes, regardless of how complex and how shallowly and wiht a big hammer that goes bok-bok explored it might be.

Works for planet of Hats too.

It is only, what, the 16th episode? Mind you TNG wisely cast off Roddenberry after a couple seasons and the show got a whole lot better for the most part because it was no longer shackled to his ego.

And really, no different from any other Star Trek show.

All of the Trek Shows had a small number of core characters and the rest were glorified extras. So what if the bridge crew aren’t the center of the story this time around. How does that really matter where it comes to story telling? And after 28 season and 5 series and 13 movies, shouldn’t people know what’s going on?…

The Orvillies that did show up last year though, many of them were devout proselytizers, who were obsessed over their show being the “True” Star Trek, and calling all to join their flock. Most will bend over backwards to preach their beliefs while ignoring the many shortfallings that The Orville displays.