Star Trek: *hits blunt* The higher, the fewerrrrrr

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Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

It sounds to me like they want to make something more like a hybrid of Galaxy Quest and Babylon 5, and less like either Family Guy In Space or Battlestar Treklactica: Post-9/11prise.

I'm incredibly interested now.

The_Doctor posted:

I really must get around to making an Orville thread. Suggestions for thread title?

If we hadn't just heard Seth MacFarlane say "this isn't Family Guy you can all relax now" I'd say a joke about cutaway gags but we're pretty much in uncharted territory now.

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The Orville: The Un-Discovery Country

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Orville: On a Voyage to Discover If This Enterprise Is Ready to Trek Into the Next Generation: Nine

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Orville: It Seems Today That All You See

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The Orville: From the man who played an extra on Enterprise

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bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

Dunno if B5 comparison is apt since he said it will not be serialized in any way.

I mean, Galaxy Quest was primarily a comedy, but it had a few serious moments. It seems like the natural evolution of that if you had more time to explore the characters.

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bull3964 posted:

Dunno if B5 comparison is apt since he said it will not be serialized in any way.

I know I'm a crusty old man but this actually got my interest more than anything else I've heard about it.

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bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

It will be nice to enjoy a thread without theory crafting.

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Orv: May 4, 2011

To steal from Games;

Orville - The Best Star Trek Show Actually Out

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Orville - Your Father's Star Trek

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Orville: A Million Ways To Die Out In Space

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The Orville: Hey, remember that time I was captain of the Enterprise?

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The_Doctor posted:

I really must get around to making an Orville thread. Suggestions for thread title?

A particularly erotic chapter from Seth MacFarlane's journal

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Sir Lemming: Jan 27, 2009; It's a piece of JUNK!

CPColin posted:

A particularly erotic chapter from Seth MacFarlane's journal

Lol

The Orville: The Adventures of Ensign Ricky

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Sir Lemming posted:

The Orville: The Un-Discovery Country

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Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Sir Lemming posted:

The Orville: The Un-Discovery Country

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The Orville: American Trek

Oh yeah, here's the cover to ST:TNG Mirror Broken #4:

You get the feels that these ships should never be that close in real combat, but, whatevs.

And yeah, that's supposed to be the Mirror Universe (Galaxy Class) Enterprise.

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I'm the Cardassian bay window prow.

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Star Trek Orville: Quark II - The Galaxy Quest.

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Binary Badger posted:

The Orville: American Trek

Oh yeah, here's the cover to ST:TNG Mirror Broken #4:

You get the feels that these ships should never be that close in real combat, but, whatevs.

And yeah, that's supposed to be the Mirror Universe (Galaxy Class) Enterprise.

Nothing about that firing angle seems even remotely possible.

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CPColin posted:

A particularly erotic chapter from Seth MacFarlane's journal

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Timby posted:

Nothing about that firing angle seems even remotely possible.

Perspective has no place in comics.

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Timby posted:

Nothing about that firing angle seems even remotely possible.

Agreed. It's either a "hook shot" or the Enterprise is closer than it looks and painted like one of those 3D sidewalk art illusions to look like it's shaped differently and pointed in a different direction than it actually is.

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Leave Orville here and let it and Discovery fight to the death for dad's love.

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Tunicate: May 15, 2012

They're travelling at warp and the front ship just accelerated - the enterprise is correcting its firing angle resulting in the beam being curved

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The Orville : Redenbacher

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The Orville: Trek MacFarlane

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The Orville: Just like how Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie

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CPColin posted:

A particularly erotic chapter from Seth MacFarlane's journal

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This new photo from the new Star Wars movie leads me to believe there will be a scene featuring Anbo-jyutsu.

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FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

How the hell would you even see through that

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FlamingLiberal posted:

How the hell would you even see through that

Science? The Force?

I can see some sort of cutout or different material there too in the eye area

edit: comedy answer:

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Orv: May 4, 2011

Aren't those special Empire guards force users or robots or something?

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FlamingLiberal posted:

How the hell would you even see through that

It's a JJ Abrams movie.

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Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

Arglebargle III posted:

It's a JJ Abrams movie.

It's a Rian Johnson movie. :eng101:

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Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

Timby posted:

It's a Rian Johnson movie.

Huh I guess they don't get to use the "nothing matters because this is pure fanservice made by a hack" excuse.

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Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

lol @ this I just found on memory alpha

Better or worse than the Discovery?

Also, memory alpha sure can be creepy:

quote:

Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) married her fianc� Michael Lamper during the hiatus between seasons immediately preceding this episode's production. Their honeymoon must have been someplace sunny because Counselor Troi sports a skin tone which is considerably darker than her appearance in "Time's Arrow".