Jealous because she transitioned and you want to or jealous because she’s got stuff going on in life and you don’t?

Kindly go fuck yourself up a hot stovepipe

Cool to see you guys are employing 68 year old Lutherans to write your articles for you now. 

The Phantom Menace also begins with no war.

Holy shit, he just needs to put on some muscle.

Lori Lemaris confirmed I guess.

I agree. And it’s only the fourth episode. I still can’t bear to watch the first half of season 1 of STTNG. they (and actually the new Star Trek) are leagues above those.

The elitists are asses.

I dunno, TNG had some horrific episodes (as did TOS, even DS9). This is definitely a mid-level TOS or TNG episode. It’s not “The Measure of a Man,” but it’s also not “Justice.” It’s “The Survivors” or “Miri” or something like that.

I think we are very much looking back at Trek with rose colored glasses. And I say this…

[citation needed]

You make good points when you note that the science is actually pretty good, and about the serialized aspects of the show. Thanks for your insights here.

An he is doing better, so so much better than discovery I feel embarrassed for Netflix having funded that show.

Discovery isn’t star trek and it isn’t exactly original either we had war with the Klingons and Dominion on DS9 and so far DS9 did it a lot better by letting us to get to know these characters before sending them off to war.

It gone down, Audience was at 65% at one stage and now it 61%.

Orville on the other hand climb up from 85% to 89%

Star Trek was a 60s show. This is an update of Star Trek’s roots.

But they missed the point. This is Roddenberry’s heart freed from cold storage. It’s very much like TOS w a sense of humor. I am an original, childhood fan of TOS (which was also uneven) & this is what I want.

I think the actual fans have different ideas of what constitutes good Star Trek than the ‘professional’ reviewers do.

it’s funny because I thought last week was the worst episode and I enjoyed last night’s... then I read blog posts like this and wonder what they are watching. I think they want it to be a show that deals head-on with today’s political climate every week. Best I can gather.

I’d say it’s about on par with TNG at this point in its run - remember, by its fourth episode TNG had aired an OK pilot, one straight-up beat-for-beat remake of a TOS episode, and one straight-up racist shitshow. If The Orville can learn to lean into the things that make it different from prior Treks (DS9 excluded),…

I’d beg to differ on how good the Orville is - this is damn fine TV. It has it’s own style of comedy, where it deliberately lingers on jokes a bit too long, and that extra beat is part of the joke.

But it’s not Trek, that’s for sure. It’s different, and arguably better.

The Orville is a deconstruction playing things…