Well keep in mind that if you’re talking electrical plugs, they can be used for all sorts of things. Christmas lights seem to be the most typical thing I’ve observed. Obviously cable outlets are a different thing.

Hey, as I said, clever editing. That does mean though that it wasn’t simply shown out of order. Still, if the bulk of it was made before last week’s episode, that would go aways to explain why it felt like a regression. I’m just not really sure it is. I’d like to see a citation on it.

IS it out of order? If so, they’ve done some clever reediting. The cold open with Bortus and Klyden could only have come AFTER last week’s episode.

I never called out dick jokes myself. I thought the whole discussion between Issac and Captain Mercer about his penis was pretty funny, for instance and, importantly, made sense for the characters. The only bit like that I’ve had a real problem with so far was Yaphit waggling a phallus at Dr. Finn after propositioning…

I am hoping the jokes ramp down further as the series progresses. They are the weakest point, though I’m most certainly not advocating they lose the humor altogether.

Despite some VERY familiar plot elements (indeed, I identified the basic overall plot the moment the episode title appeared, without even needing to see the inside of the ship), I felt this was solidly done. No points for innovation of course, but the storytelling was there. My only real issues are the jokes, which…

Puppet strings?

This was also the conclusion I came to.

See, now you’ve got me imagining just how Hank Hill would have viewed the 2016 election. It’s a losing proposition to speculate on how fictional characters might have acted in real world situations (at least not unless you’re actually writing them), but I feel like he would have found Trump to be “asinine”.

I seem to recall him having nothing but massive respect for former Democratic Texas governor Anne Richards. So there’s that?

I was confused about that invisible ship too. I was assuming it was a second ship, and one designed specifically for ramming and tearing in half other ships like that, given the wedge-shaped bow. Was it the corpse ship after all?

Interesting. My understanding of the invention of it came from the book The Making of Star Trek, which described it as a purely physiological effect. The wikipedia article does cite that book and explanation further on in the entry. The book itself was written roughly contemporaneously with the series itself, by…

Please cite your source on the telepathic nature of the nerve pinch. I’ve never heard that. Only that it was developed as a “non-violent” way for Spock to subdue someone.

I would say I could tolerate precisely one season of Bruce trying and failing as he attempts to work out a winning formula for his vigilantism. That seems like a fair stretch to grant it in a television landscape. Any more than that and it gets quite absurd. And not fun train-wreck absurd like Gotham is now. The…

It was depicted after the Klingon attack on her school, which I think was in the second part. But like you, I watched back to back and don’t remember for sure.

Yeah, but I seemed to recall that was only shown in part 2, which this guy continues to mention is the only part he saw or cared about, hence my particular wording.

Clearly neither side deployed heavy cruisers in this battle.

Indeed, I might have thought that too. But if Data can do it....

That’s... one possible takeaway, sure.

I liked it, but it’s not really what I was hoping for. Maybe it’s first episode blues (gosh knows The Orville had them in spades), but I think I’m going to enjoy The Orville a lot more myself. I found myself disappointed it wasn’t on tonight!