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The Wave Master posted...

Bank Robber, who is a much bigger Star Trek fan than I ever will be, agreed with me that The Orville is a better Star Trek show than Star Trek Discovery. My lovely wife agrees with him as well. (She too is a huge Star Trek fan versus my love for Star Wars.)

The RedLetterMedia guys (two of whom are huge Star Trek nerds) said something I found interesting - namely, that Orville is basically capturing the spirit of old Star Trek far more faithfully, but sort of fails because it's a comedy written by Seth MacFarlane, so it feels more like self-insert Star Trek fanfic. But Discovery is very much in the vein of the JJ Abrams movies, which were barely Star Trek at all, as much as they were just mostly mindless action movies with the names of Star Trek characters in it.

I also saw another review where someone said that Discovery was a worthy successor to Gene Roddenberry's vision and he'd be proud of it if he were still alive (or something like that), and I was like, "Umm, no, Roddenberry's vision of the future was one where everything was mostly peaceful and the Federation were generally boring explorers, whereas this show has a captain who starts an intergalactic war mostly by being stupid and overly emotional - he'd absolutely loathe this show."

Fortunately, I've never really given much of a shit about Star Trek (it was never really my bag, because I was never into harder sci-fi, and I have a much more cynical view of human nature and what the future holds than Roddenberry ever did), so I have absolutely no horse in the current race. But even if I did, Discovery can go fuck itself because it will be a cold day in hell before I pay for a CBS streaming service just to watch it.


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