• Rhaedas@kbin.social
    45·
    10 months ago

    It’s as much Star Trek as the unofficial Trek movie Galaxy Quest. Doesn’t matter if the characters and universe are different, it’s got the same vibe to fit in.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
      815·
      10 months ago

      It’s literally just camp TNG with juvenile humor, mildly annoying characters, and low stakes.

        • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          Honestly I kind of wanted them to keep more of the humorous tone. I know a lot of people hated it and thought it was distracting, but I thought it was a pretty unique take on the genre. I wish they’d toned it down without going full space opera.

        • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          It took me a while to get passed the early episodes, they were a little too “family guy” for me.

          But the show did get pretty good in season 2, and the humour got better (in my opinion).

          • supamanc@lemm.eeEnglish
            9·
            10 months ago

            I think the humour in the first few episodes was Mcfarlens way of sneaking the show past the network suits - he sold it as family guy meets star trek, then switched on them once it was established.

            • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              Literally the case, the first couple eps were written for fartjock executives. Ep 4 onwards were written for the show. It’s why there’s a sudden stratospheric upswing

          • lugal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            12·
            10 months ago

            The humor is the worst. All kidding aside, I wish you all the best.

  • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    10 months ago

    The Orville literally made me give Star Trek an actual try. I think of it as my first series of Trek.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I’m not sure the mods are going to care honestly. I think most are in agreement that the Orville is basically star trek adjacent, and close enough that… Honestly as long as it doesn’t take over, nobody will bat an eye at the occasional Orville meme.

      • Maven (famous)@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        My theory for the behind the scenes:

        McFarland: I would like to make a star trek parody!

        Fox: oh sounds awesome, lots of funny jokes and stuff. Should be funny.

        M: yes haha, funny.

        F: yes… Anyway here’s the money

        Making episode one

        M: I gotta make sure there’s loads of jokes so I can show this to execs and they see the haha bits

        Making episode 3

        M: okay I think they’re gone… Time to just literally make normal star trek episodes

        making the last episode of s1

        F: hey I see you’re almost done with the first season so I’m just checking in that the show is still funny

        M: quickly adding in as many jokes as the last second as possible haha yes humor! Jokes! Plenty of them! Haha yes

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Thing is it’s not the humour, it’s the humanity. Showing all the crew are just as dorky as your average human today, not all stick-wedged paragons like TNG. Think of the top time funniest moments - getting Bortus to eat a cactus, 500 cigarettes, karaoke, the moustache, the dancing bandito, isaac’s joke fail… the humour is there, but it’s the humanity that makes them. that’s where s3 kinda fell down a bit, i don’t know if it was covid rush or what, but we missed a lot of the warmer moments. Season finale delivered though.