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drunken officeparty posted:I've never watched star trek because I'm not a literal kid diddler. If Star Trek induces pedophilic urges then the Orville probably does too, so you might as well watch the good episodes of TNG since you're already infected.
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Peachfart posted:The Orville is good 90's Star Trek with the S/N filed off plus jokes. If you like it, you should check out TNG(the Picard one) and then watch DS9. Or don't, because TNG is just The Orville but it takes all the dumb stuff that Orville pokes fun at completely seriously and the jokes are terrible.
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Nov 26, 2017 04:01
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TNG's highlight episodes are a little better than the Orville on average, but the series as a whole is way worse yeah.
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Nov 26, 2017 04:08
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Jeb! Repetition posted:TNG's highlight episodes are a little better than the Orville on average, but the series as a whole is way worse yeah. I mean...you’re comparing 178 episodes to 10, the latter of which are cribbing pretty shamelessly from the former’s greatest hits, so it seems a bit of an unfair comparison.
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Nov 26, 2017 04:27
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all trek fans are pedophiles
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Phylodox posted:I mean...you’re comparing 178 episodes to 10, the latter of which are cribbing pretty shamelessly from the former’s greatest hits, so it seems a bit of an unfair comparison. an unfair comparison perhaps, but given the choice between watching one random TNG episode or one random Orville episode, I'd pick the latter. at least then there's no risk of getting Sub Rosa
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Nov 26, 2017 04:46
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If you're guaranteed to get a season 3-6 episode I'd take the random TNG over random Orville
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Nov 26, 2017 04:47
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You're not! In fact it's guaranteed to be either an episode where Wesley saves the day, Troi gets brain-raped and no one cares, or a Geordie/Data holodeck adventure!
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Nov 26, 2017 04:53
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Sagebrush posted:You're not! In fact it's guaranteed to be either an episode where Wesley saves the day, Troi gets brain-raped and no one cares, or a Geordie/Data holodeck adventure! Don't talk poo poo about Geordi/Data holodeck adventures.
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Sagebrush posted:You're not! In fact it's guaranteed to be either an episode where Wesley saves the day, Troi gets brain-raped and no one cares, or a Geordie/Data holodeck adventure! * Not actually guaranteed, thank the Great Bird. The best thing I can say about The Orville after 10 episodes, is that the show has a sense of joy in addition to a sense of wonder. And that's a rare thing.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Don't talk poo poo about Geordi/Data holodeck adventures. 
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Fistful of Datas is a Data holodeck episode that somehow manages to be good despite having Alexander in it, so I think we can agree that Data+holodeck is a potent combination
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That's the only TNG Alexander episode that isn't the worst. Though I do conceptually like the one where he attempts to time travel in order to kill himself because him not existing would've been great.
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Grand Fromage posted:That's the only TNG Alexander episode that isn't the worst. Sadly true. I'm not sure whether to blame the actor or the writers. Ah, who am i kidding, always blame the writers.
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A Major Fucker posted:all trek fans are pedophiles the statistics don't lie
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Nov 26, 2017 06:05
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Grand Fromage posted:That's the only TNG Alexander episode that isn't the worst. The higher, the fewer! I mean, I guess technically, he showed up in Rascals, which wasn't terrible.
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Nov 26, 2017 06:55
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Fistful of Datas is also the best Troi episode, by virtue of a) she isn't mind raped in that one and b) Marina Sirtis actually looks like she's enjoying filming the episode.
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Nov 26, 2017 07:14
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tng is at its best when mark twain shows up
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8one6 posted:Fistful of Datas is also the best Troi episode, by virtue of a) she isn't mind raped in that one and b) Marina Sirtis actually looks like she's enjoying filming the episode. I'd say Face of the Enemy is a better Troi episode.
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Phylodox posted:I mean...you’re comparing 178 episodes to 10, the latter of which are cribbing pretty shamelessly from the former’s greatest hits, so it seems a bit of an unfair comparison. On the other hand, it's season 1 being compared against the whole series, and TNG spent a lot of its season one trying to crib from TNG's greatest hits.
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Nov 26, 2017 09:00
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Don't you freaks have 3 star trek threads to share your internet porn?
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Rocksicles posted:Don't you freaks have 3 star trek threads to share your internet porn?
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Nov 26, 2017 12:21
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This is basically the Star Trek off topic / chat thread wherein we talk about Fahrenheit, ethics, and things of that nature. The other two threads are for actual Star Trek shows.
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Jazerus posted:tng is at its best when mark twain shows up I....hate you...so much...
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Cingulate posted:Including this one, yes. And that’s how it should be. I think there's three actual star trek threads--TVIV megathread, GBS megathread and disco thread. So this one is number four.
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Nov 26, 2017 21:04
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Is the original William Shatner star trek as goofy as I always imagine it. Like Adam West "POW" Batman goofy.
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drunken officeparty posted:Is the original William Shatner star trek as goofy as I always imagine it. Like Adam West "POW" Batman goofy. No. The ‘66 Batman was deliberately campy and silly, whereas old school Trek is, for the most part, played seriously but suffers (or benefits) from dated special effects/set design and melodramatic acting.
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drunken officeparty posted:Is the original William Shatner star trek as goofy as I always imagine it. Like Adam West "POW" Batman goofy. not quite that goofy. I mean that batman was very specifically goofy and comedic even for its time, star trek was serious just... a product of being a serious show in the 1960's. Some episodes are beyond cheesy, some are light hearted, and some are interesting and serious. Even the best of them though are cheesy by today's standards. The fights are hokey, the sets and effects are bad, the morality play aspect is heavy handed, but some of the ones with interesting ideas are still interesting. Sort of like the Twilight zone, though Twilight has aged a lot better in my option.
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Jazerus posted:tng is at its best when mark twain shows up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uIxSwvmWVM
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Mantis42 posted:I've picked up enough about Star Trek through cultural osmosis and RedLetterMedia that I get the general idea, I guess. I'd probably like Star Trek but I don't want to get into a whole thing. The cool thing about most Star Trek is there is no ongoing story so you can just watch the occasional episode, you don't have to binge a whole season at a time or whatever nonsense.
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twistedmentat posted:I'm pretty sure they are two different designs. The wrist mounted ones seemed more like normal flashlights, rather than a clock radio style. Pretty sure they moved to the second type because they realized no one would ever use such a stupid design. Star Trek Online retconned those dumb fistful things into hands-free hover flashlights, which is simultaneously stupid and amazing.
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cheetah7071 posted:I think there's three actual star trek threads--TVIV megathread, GBS megathread and disco thread. So this one is number four. there are four threads
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Tighclops posted:there are four threads which ones were moderated by the diddler. drunken officeparty fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Nov 27, 2017 |
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Tighclops posted:there are four threads No, actually there are five. Tell me. How many threads do you see? How many threads? 
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There actually are 5 threads, GBS has both a Star Trek and a Orville thread. But that isn't very funny.
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I need my fix this week. One hour where I can settle in with a nice snack and watch new Trek-adjacent content and for a moment, all is right with the world.
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8one6 posted:Fistful of Datas is also the best Troi episode, by virtue of a) she isn't mind raped in that one and b) Marina Sirtis actually looks like she's enjoying filming the episode. For some reason my suggested videos on youtube for the past week have been Marina Sirtis speaking at Cons. Fistful of Datas was one of her favorite episodes and Dorn was furious with her because this was a Worf episode and he didn't want her out-funnying him.
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SwissCM posted:My mum hates Star Trek and for some reason really enjoys The Orville That is totally awesome. More people enjoying the show without a huge investment needed in their time to "get" it is a feather in the show runners cap. And just good in general. Your mom sounds like a neat addition to the fans of this show.
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Phone posting so my apologies if this has already been posted but I though this tvguide (lol) article nicely summed up the delta between critics and viewers. http://www.tvguide.com/amp/news/the-orville-critics-fans-reviews/ quote:...The truth is, The Orville was never going to win over critics because it's a throwback and goes against everything modern television is. As a critic, I know that a show's sense of identity can directly correlate to whether I think it's good or not; with so much TV out there, and typically, when show doesn't seem to know what it is, it's not going to get very far. But The Orville, seems to be a very different case. It's not that The Orville doesn't know what it wants it to be, as critics assume, it's that it wants to be a little bit of everything.
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