I’ve kind of decided that Ed Mercer was a fine and dedicated officer in the mold of the esteemed James T. Kirk (original series version) until he got married, that went all to hell, and he fell apart for a while. The Ed of today is clearly no Kirk, but he has it in him somewhere.

Certainly we might have benefited greatly from having a better pre-existing understanding of how Moclan gender works. Clearly they identify as male because there is a (vestigial) female gender, but we don’t know how their single-gender reproduction works or what role the female gender ever played. It’s a problem, but…

Bah, Voyager was great. It had some missteps, but I think to this day people are still condemning it 90% because of the way UPN advertised it rather than the actual show.

I definitely noticed an uptick in his dramatic performance in this episode. Honestly I’ve always felt like he had it in him.

Yes, this is the regular slot. They did advertise it as such during Sunday’s episode. Sorry you missed out. :/

Ouch. I JUST rewatched that episode, and it reminded me that it was one of my least favorite episodes of B5. Painful to watch all the way through, to everyone involved’s discredit. I can see the similarity though, even though I found this episode of The Orville far better than the B5 episode.

I would have to rewatch to be sure, but I believe Janet too Jason to see MICHAEL, who happened to be where Eleanor was. I’m not 100% on the timing of it, but I believe Janet spoke up to say that he (Jason) had a question for Michael.

Copyright and trademark are not interchangeable. Trademark is limited in scope as to what it can be applied to, and has to be applied for, approved, kept in use, and defended, but can be held indefinitely.

I cannot say this enough: copyright is NOT use or lose. Trademark is, which is an entirely different form of protection.

That utterly fails to surprise me.

When I was a kid, the only Chick-Fil-A I knew of was in a mall. It was a big open space area, primarily marked off by a few columns and a change in tile, and occupied a big corner space. Very difficult to miss if you were on that end of the mall. Most days it was as brightly lit as everything else, busy and bustling.…

Sure, but that was AFTER the episode I refer to. I was impressed that they started so subtly once it was made overt.

The Mortys in school are learning how to better service Ricks. Those are Mortys that want to have a Rick. They probably don’t all want that. Ricks don’t generally treat Mortys like adults treat kids one way or other, so it’s not odd to me that when you get enough of them around, they just do whatever.

Definitely NOT a lawyer here, but by my understanding this is just not true. Copyright does NOT have to be aggressively “enforced” to be maintained. Copyright simply is. Trademarks are what require enforcement. They are a very different thing with very different rights and requirements both to obtain and to maintain.…

Even taking as given that there has to be a Morty and thus a Beth, Beth can die, leave, whatever, meaning Rick wouldn’t be leaving her.

I felt like this episode was worlds better than the first one. The crew seemed actually professionally competent (when it mattered) and the jokes, juvenile as they sometimes were, integrated well into the scene and situation, rather than being frequently ENTIRELY inappropriate in the moment. It actually gives me hope…

No one ever said the mass memory erasure had happened before. Just that Rick had prepared for it and Summer was the contingency. Summer has become preeeetty jaded about all this since she started getting included in it.

I feel compelled to answer some of your questions!

I want to see a modern personal digital assistant as designed by Cameron Howe. Now I’m imagining that’s the backstory to the movie Her. Mmm, headcanon...

Once I got to this episode (in admittedly short order), I was amazed how subtly they’d planted the seeds for it. There’s a conversation with Bojack 2 or 3 episodes prior where she mentions something about itching or crawing sensation in the skin (I can’t remember the wording) while describing emotional issues, and it…