When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by season 2 I found myself loving this show.

To me it seems as every bit as comfy, intellectually interesting and even funny as some classic Star Treks while still clearly being its own thing. I wish more comfy space shows like this would get made.

What are your thoughts on The Orville? Also I miss Alara.

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    For me after DS9, The Orville is (to me) the next canonical Start Trek series. Everything after is, from what I’ve seen is trash that exploits the name for an established fan base. Now I haven’t seen everything, but like, how many times do you need to be kicked in the nuts to know that you don’t like getting kicked in the nuts and you just stop!

    I loved, FUCKING LOVED, TNG. Honestly, that show shaped a lot of who I am, especially since I didn’t have a good father figure growing up.

    The Orville isn’t perfect. Seth for better or for worse tries some jokes and some of them really don’t land. But to his credit he tries. And it felt like as the show went on it got more refined in what it wanted to be.

    The people who are in charge of modern Star Trek can shove it up their ass. You can’t tell me a single one of them ever sat down and ever actually watched Star Trek. TOS, TNG, VOY, and DS9 I’m here for it all. Everything after, Jesus Christ, just awful. I’d rather watch Dr Crusher get it on with a ghost repeatedly than sit and watch modern Star Trek.

    But the Oroville like a breath of fresh air.

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        No. Isn’t that a spin off of Discovery? I survived the ride that was Enterprise, but Discovery said as the first time I noped the fuck out.

        I did a quick look via Google, the uniforms look very TOS to me, is it good? Or is it just that much more of terrible writing and 0 acknowledgement of any established stories and lore or just generally Gene’s vision for what Start Trek as a concept was.

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          I think season2 of Strange new worlds might be my favorite star trek season. Its focusing more on inter crew relationships again instead of useless power creep like discovery did. The crew feels like a family again like it did in TNG and Voyager, while also leaving you with a new concept each episode something for your brain to digest, something you hadn’t seen yet. I think they succeeded in the balancing act something new while infused with the original essence of star trek.

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        I might check out Strange New World, seems to get mentioned a few times.

        But you ain’t getting me to watch Picard, lol. A show that very clearly should have been a direct continuation of TNG… Unless season 3 is Picard waking up in his quarters and everything that happened before (in Star Trek: Picard) was just a terribly written nightmare… From perhaps drinking to much… Uh… Well it was green.

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      The people who are in charge of modern Star Trek can shove it up their ass

      I support that initiative!

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      Modern Trek does have a few gems. Lower Decks is fun, Prodigy was nice (and will hopefully still get its next season soon) and Strange New Worlds has been pretty close to proper old Trek.