#TheOrville - They Say It's "a Comedy-Version of #StarTrek," but It Seems Closer to 'Reality' (especially Now) @AVclubTV #Orville | @Quora

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I'm gonna be slow getting to these 'streaming service'-shows—and maybe that's why I see this one as more 'the way today's movers-&-shakers actually do things' than the "parody" it kinda is.

I've only seen the first episode of THE ORVILLE, and I'm struck by the fact that–though the crew is working for a military-style organization (like STAR TREK's United Federation of Planets)–the crew-members behave as though everyone cares how they feel about every little thing going on in their lives

(Captain Ed Mercer feels it's totally appropriate to discuss his painful divorce on the ship with his First-Officer/Ex-Wife Kelly Grayson; hearing about this, the bridge-crew has no problem 'gossiping like a hen-house' about "how much the two are going to make the missions suck"; Lt. Commander Bortus' species only urinates once a year, and he feels at-leisure to announce this ... in fact, I think they devote an entire episode to his "Ja'loja").

'That ship-name' (below-hyperlinked to an offer on Amazon Prime's 'stream-cast' of the show) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The name “Orville” (the ship is named after 'Wilbur Wright's brother' (who helped invent the Airplane), if not after the popcorn-magnate Redenbacher) is built on words similar to other words that mean “|Golden City” (Ore, -|ville).

... When it was picked up by Disney+, I started watching the four available seasons ... I'm only partway through the second season, and it's about as serious as STAR TREK was. They deal heavily with 'equal rights for women'---Lt. Commander Bortus' species being one in which 'being born female' is seen as a birth-defect (which--if it is not surgically corrected during the girl's infancy--forces her into exile on a hidden planet).

"Warp" is now 'something that happens to plastics in the dishwasher,' the space-transport technology now known as "Quantum." There are no "transporter-beams," (which were apparently a work-around for the limited-budget of TOS).









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