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Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago by startrekexplained@startrek.website to c/startrek@startrek.website
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I asked this question sometime ago on The Orville's subreddit, and surprisingly got mixed responses. I assume most here however, are going to prefer Star Trek, specifically TNG that its aping from. For the record I do prefer TNG as well, but rewatching The Orville, after you get past its kinda sucky first season, I really enjoyed the show and feel it's a very good successor to TNG just with added humor and levity which I think is a good thing. And there are elements I find better in The Orville. And now that Lower Decks is back (a show I'm now a fan of after dismissing it for so long), I felt the need to return to The Orville and see if I still liked it. I'm really hoping it at least gets a fourth season. Anyway, what do you guys think?

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[–] startrekexplained@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironically though because of its higher budget, The Orville ran into more alien "strange new worlds" and species than TNG did.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. I too have noticed that fewer planets in The Orville are "basically earth but in 19xx", than in TOS.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have been a few, off the top of my head I remember "what if current earth, but justice system is social media", "what if current earth but horoscopes are state Religon". Not that these are bad ideas.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

And they all look like southern California