Odd that what began as a parody show has turned out to be the most Trek like show since TOS. The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!
Bonus:
June 2, 2022-The Orville Season Three Begins- Open Thread
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I have never seen an episode of Star Trek. Am I cancelled. 😂
Never cancelled Ezabelle, but I am astonished that someone in an English speaking nation hasn’t seen an episode of Trek!
You might enjoy the TOS episode Bread and Circuses:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x762hcu
In my mind, the Rick Berman Star Trek series (post season 1 of TNG, DS9, VOY and, to some extent, ENT) are “Star Trek,” with DS9 being the pinnacle which will likely never be achieved again, similar to Empire Strikes Back’s place in Star Wars. It was interesting, however, to watch the DS9 retrospective “What We Left Behind” in which they spent nearly the entire documentary lauding the characters, story and the world they built which made the show so great, only to end by lamenting (among other things) that that they didn’t make Garak a full-on groomer.
The less we know about the people involved in entertainment usually the better. There is a reason why actors and actresses could traditionally not
be buried in hallowed ground.
Off-topic: I thought Barnette could win.
She came on strong at the end Pinky, but there were a lot of ballots that had already been cast. If it had been a two way race between her and Oz, she would have won.
I don’t know much about her, she might have been a terrible pick, but this just brings back memories of 2016 and why I’ll always think “not at all” when I see your Miss Me Yet? articles.
The Next Generation holds the crown for characters, plots, and deep questions, “the Measure of a Man
“https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708807
(not witty, or timely, but that’s me all over.) They should have named me Earnest.
The Next Generation holds the crown for characters, plots, and deep questions, “the Measure of a Man
Disagree. The original has not been surpassed. Lwaxana Troi is pretty funny.
Diana Muldaur on her last day on the job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj8FIbuoWPY
And her commentary therupon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv3ifsSVl5k
I suppose this disqualifies me from being a True Trekkie, but I’ll cast another vote for TOS as unsurpassed. Although I’m a fan of Patrick Stewart’s acting, especially his Mr. Scrooge, TNG and the other follow-up series never caught my fancy. The few episodes we watched of TNG were well done, and we enjoyed several of the characters, but it never occurred to us to watch it regularly or to fire up the old VCR for it.
The clips from LA Law are interesting. Never watched that, either, and I don’t really recall why not. In retrospect I may have felt, as a lawyer, that watching a Hollywood view of a big city law firm would just be like what my grandmother used to call a “busman’s holiday.” Maybe I should go check it out, after all.
I read somewhere that MacFarlane pitched The Orville as a comedy/parody show so that he would not get sued by Star Trek for copyright infringement. But he always intended it to be more Star Trek-like than the current incarnations of the franchise.