Star Trek: Lower Decks

[Gulo Blue]

Head writer of Rick and Morty is going to do an animated series about the people with unimportant jobs on star ships for CBS All Access. Sounds like they're trying to copy some of the success The Orville had.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I've watched Rick and Morty a few times not my thing. That kids voice is unbearable. How's The Orville, haven't seen it. I hear MacFarlane and I automatically think of Peter and Stewie.

 

[turok]

One of the most important jobs for extras, back when ST-ToS began, would be to know how to pretend to realistically stagger back and forth in the passageways and fall down after faked explosions, while the Enterprise stage's facade is supposedly being hit and rocked by Romulan or Klingon torpedoes. Note that Dr McCoy's infirmary had no chairs to sit on, or gurneys to be transported with, just beds anchored to the floor and wall.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I've watched Rick and Morty a few times not my thing. That kids voice is unbearable. How's The Orville, haven't seen it. I hear MacFarlane and I automatically think of Peter and Stewie.

The Orville is great. If you buy into the idea that Star Trek was originally bright and clean and about an idealized vision for the future of humanity and each series since the Next Generation has gotten darker and farther from that vision, then the Orville feels something like a return to the original.

 

[turok]

The Orville is great. If you buy into the idea that Star Trek was originally bright and clean and about an idealized vision for the future of humanity and each series since the Next Generation has gotten darker and farther from that vision, then the Orville feels something like a return to the original.

Never watched The Orville either, but I've always thought that it would actually have been extremely rare for top ranked officers, the ship physician, and the captain to transport down to unknown planet surfaces or vessels to explore and/or meet alien life forms, and those very high risk duties would have been given first to more expendable lower ranked crewmen and women...like the time that Sulu and a few other crewmen nearly froze to death when they couldn't be beamed back up to the ship b/c of transporter malfunction. With the exception of the two-part court-martial of Captain Kirk, each episode of ST-ToS was completely different, and not like how after Next Gen and later turned into more like ongoing serials.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Never watched The Orville either, but I've always thought that it would actually have been extremely rare for top ranked officers, the ship physician, and the captain to transport down to unknown planet surfaces or vessels to explore and/or meet alien life forms, and those very high risk duties would have been given first to more expendable lower ranked crewmen and women...like the time that Sulu and a few other crewmen nearly froze to death when they couldn't be beamed back up to the ship b/c of transporter malfunction.

So we watch because of Kirk, Spock, the Doctor and the rest but you want to see the red shirt characters? They all die anyways.

 

[turok]

Nope, just posted that IRL, those scenarios would be very unlikely to happen, in a militarized rank spacecraft. And if humans were to ever successfully invent warp-drive, the speed @ which they traveled, would result in time slowing down for them, relative to their home planet Earth, and what was the 23rd century for them, would be like the 25th or later on Earth when they returned. Imagine if the Enterprise was approaching within a few parsecs of Andromeda galaxy, when another sleek spacecraft pulled alongside. They make contact, and the Enterprise finds out that the spacecraft left Earth in the 24th century, but now has Trans-Warp drive, and it took less than an Earth year's time to catch up to them.

 

[Mitchrapp]

That's why they don't have real life shows like that. No one wants to see the cook.

 

[Gulo Blue]

They mostly figured this out by Picard's time.

 

[tigermud]

There were a couple of Orville episodes I thought were pretty good and a couple I thought were just horrible 50/50

Is it coming back for a second season I haven’t seen any ads for it

 

[Mitchrapp]

There were a couple of Orville episodes I thought were pretty good and a couple I thought were just horrible 50/50

Is it coming back for a second season I haven?t seen any ads for it

I read yes, first episode Dec. 30. Or thereabouts.

 

[Gulo Blue]

There were a couple of Orville episodes I thought were pretty good and a couple I thought were just horrible 50/50

Is it coming back for a second season I haven?t seen any ads for it

Agreed. I thought it was a strong season 1 though. Lots of shows don't completely find their footing right off the bat and this feels like one of them.

 

[tigermud]

I read yes, first episode Dec. 30. Or thereabouts.

Thumbs down on the first Orville this season, thought it was dumb. Next one will probably be good, that was how it went last year, also, one good, one bad, one good, one bad. .....

 

[Gulo Blue]

I don't like the stupid robot.

 

[tigermud]

I don't care for the twisted gratuitous sexual innuendo some of the alien characters display and depict at times. I much prefer episodes that focus on depictions of other words and alien civilizations the humor is fine when it's not twisted sex based or just plain dumb like the alien crew member needs to return to his home world so he can take a piss. WTF was that, piss poor that's what, pun intended.

 

[tigermud]

Nope another dud tonight as well, Nothing but more gratuitous gay sex, disgusting this show is terrible

 

[Gulo Blue]

Nope another dud tonight as well, Nothing but more gratuitous gay sex, disgusting this show is terrible

I read it was a held over episode from season 1, whatever that means. I'm willing to keep watching this show and accept a dud here and there as they find their footing, but I sure hope that episode felt half-baked in part because it was more of a part of season 1 that season 2.



They really should have spent more time dealing with the underground civilization. The whole episode could have been about them and it would have been interesting.

 

[tigermud]

I read it was a held over episode from season 1, whatever that means. I'm willing to keep watching this show and accept a dud here and there as they find their footing, but I sure hope that episode felt half-baked in part because it was more of a part of season 1 that season 2.



They really should have spent more time dealing with the underground civilization. The whole episode could have been about them and it would have been interesting.

agree, less gay sex more inspiration. two duds in a row was just rather disappointing.