There were a few scenes that made me wonder if it were supposed to air earlier. The scene of the Doctor and the blob guy seems like it was supposed to come before the one a week ago where he was hitting on her, like this was the episode he first gets a crush on her. But Bortus and Klyden had a baby bed so they must…

That’s the obvious search to do, but he and Isaac seemed so surprised by the idea that it seemed like they hit upon something more insightful.

I could almost dismiss the idea of the makeup and outfits being different as those Klingons being an isolated sect that hasn’t interacted with the homeworld for a while (if that’s what the case was. I can only assume based on previews, advanced hype and what I saw in the first episode — although the isolated Klingons…

Plus the testimony ended up not mattering as the stuffy old society ends up deciding to do what it wanted to in the first place anyway.

“While it would’ve been possible to do a similar storyline in the post-Next Generation universe”

Voyager’s was OK. It was the show that followed that let it down.

So, going with STD as the shorthand, are we? Maybe there’s something fitting about that, or a message to be sent. Not that DIS would be much better.

I wish each of the first two episodes had received their own review rather than lumping them together. I only watched the first episode on CBS proper and have no intention of migrating to CBS All Access until the show is completely available, which would appear to be next March (or, until I coordinate with some…

It’s easier to accept if you just take it all in as farce — even the serious parts.

Yeah, I was wondering what exactly the captain asked to scan, and why it led to just a single female who happened to be the world’s greatest writer. Since he seemed to have the idea after the mention of a woman being shunned by society, did he just decide to try to find any and all Moclan women and hope one would turn…

Yeah, but a show has to have a house style, and a producer has to tell the director to “shoot it like this” if that’s the case. So obviously, the house style of The Orville is to emulate Star Trek, and thus the Trek veterans to work behind the scenes to pull that off. It’s great

Yeah, but a show has to have a house style, and a producer has to tell the director to “shoot it like this” if that’s the case. So obviously, the house style of The Orville is to emulate Star Trek, and thus the Trek veterans to work behind the scenes to pull that off. It’s great

I think you missed my point. I was in no way criticizing the show. I think the contrast with Star Trek is what makes it so brilliant. Because only with the farcical undertones that Seth MacFarlane provides can we as an audience not only not give a crap about other sentient kidnap victims left behind, but actually use…

I wonder if it was intentional to make the all-male species an industrial race obsessed with weapons — emphasize the macho-ness of it all. If so, nice touch.

But, the problems of biology referenced in the review were something I wondered would come up when it was mentioned in the first episode that the Moclans were all…

Something that really jumped out to me was Ed trying to justify his drinking a beer at 9 in the morning, when in the previous episode he was yelling at Gordon for drinking a beer at 9 in the morning. It’s one of those things where you might think the two scenes are way too similar to be a coincidence, and yet I think…

I was thinking they’d give it to a guard or do something else to help them escape. I think Kelly brings it up as something to pass the time in their “apartment,” so maybe we’re meant to think they ate it before their pajama party, which is why Ed says “this was a great idea.”

TNG really kicked off the first-run syndication craze. But good point about the perspective of its contemporaries. The first season of TNG was just a year after the end of “Knight Rider.” But otherwise networks were hesitant to greenlight sci-fi TV shows since they were so expensive and, if not done well, ended up too…

I wondered that too at first, but watch it again. The spikey head dude is still in his cell at the end watching the reality TV too. The only one they freed apparently was the kid.

It’s not that kind of comedy. It’s more comedy like making your powerpoint presentation look like an Enterprise LCARS display is meant to be amusing. Or in a “look how dumb this all is” kind of way. It’s Star Trek with self-aware Star Trek fans as the crew, not idealistic Starfleet blowhards. The absurdity of it all…

Even better: she receives a commendation for rescuing the captain, first officer and some random alien kid, and leaving hundreds of sentient beings in captivity. So, what, the Orville just doesn’t care about all the others who were kidnapped and are being held prisoner on that planet? Kirk, Picard, Janeway, Sisko —…