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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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[-] Jonna@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

"oh yeah? Well, I'm gonna make my own Star Trek, with black jack and hookers. "

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[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Star Trek Producer: "This guy is trying to out-startreck us" proceeds to make Strange New Worlds to retaliate

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure this is exactly what happened.

[-] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

And you will not see me complaining. SNW is the best Trek of recent times.

[-] havocpants@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Picard season 3 was pretty great too. I skipped season 2 as I hated season 1. Apparently season 3 just ignores the events of 2 completely because it was that bad.

[-] sylvain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I never laughed so much in a Star Trek episode as I did at last Thursday's episode. That was absolutely not expected lol.

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I still haven't watched it. I think I might be done with Trek. There's just been too much damage in the last decade with those godawful jj abrams movies, discovery, picard, blech. It's clear to me the franchise has moved in a different direction and we'll always have tng and ds9, but I just can't follow it anymore.

[-] RufusFirefly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

SNW went completely off the rails and became a CW science fiction show. It is not Star Trek and is so cringe worthy, it's painful to watch.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Every other episode is amazing then cringe, it keeps things light.

[-] TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen any of season 2 yet, and while I agree that a few of the episodes in the first season are a bit off-target on the science fiction aspects, I think they are overall quite a bit better than the first season of TNG. I'm more than willing to give it, say, 40-60 episodes to really find itself and get into the meat of the story they want to tell with it.

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