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Information
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 44 min.
- Director
- -
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Rating *
- 7.9
- Votes *
- 23,861
- Checks
- 113
- Favs
- 19
- Dislikes
- 3
- Favs/checks
- 16.8% (1:6)
- Favs/dislikes
- 6:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
After two seasons of The Orville, I can definitely it's one of my favorite iterations of Star Trek. Comes in fourth place or thereabouts. Seth MacFarlane's love letter to Next Gen gives me all the same feels, as if the show were back on the air, and yet giving us an entire new universe to discover in the kind of episodic format Star Trek today isn't particularly interested in. It's a comedy, yes, and MacFarlane has trouble getting away from juvenile body fluids humor at times, but the jokes calm down by the middle of the first season, allowing for some epic and even tragic moments. And though there is that comedy element to it, it's still hitting all the great Star Trek themes, the moral dilemmas, and some down right poignant character beats. By the second season, the characters feel like a family as much as "proper Trek"'s casts did, and I found myself both laughing out loud and tearing up at the appropriate moments. And if you ARE a TNG-era Trekkie, there's lot of connective tissue, as the show seems to cast from Trek alumni as often as it can (possibly thanks to Brannon Braga). After a year's hiatus, the show is going to be shunted to Hulu, because of course a sci-fi show that premiered on Fox needs to have a difficult and checkered broadcasting history. I'll be there when it returns. 4 years ago -
