It’s as much Star Trek as the unofficial Trek movie Galaxy Quest. Doesn’t matter if the characters and universe are different, it’s got the same vibe to fit in.
I can understand why. The motivations and message are a bit deeper than WoK. But UC wouldn’t have happened (in the same way) without WoK first, since I don’t think Kirk had the same hatred towards Klingons before. Distrust sure, but not revenge level hate.
UC also has that connection with one of the best TNG episodes, Yesterday’s Enterprise.
Man I love Lower Decks. It’s just peak Trek. The characters are Star Trek fans who just wanna explore space and don’t want to be embroiled in orion or romulan drama
Except for the time Ed beams down to a planet to yell at the locals and tell them they’re stupid for still believing in religion. A Starfleet officer would never do that
Honestly I kind of wanted them to keep more of the humorous tone. I know a lot of people hated it and thought it was distracting, but I thought it was a pretty unique take on the genre. I wish they’d toned it down without going full space opera.
I think the humour in the first few episodes was Mcfarlens way of sneaking the show past the network suits - he sold it as family guy meets star trek, then switched on them once it was established.
Literally the case, the first couple eps were written for fartjock executives. Ep 4 onwards were written for the show. It’s why there’s a sudden stratospheric upswing
It’s as much Star Trek as the unofficial Trek movie Galaxy Quest. Doesn’t matter if the characters and universe are different, it’s got the same vibe to fit in.
Galaxy Quest is the best Trek movie
Right after First Contact and The Wrath of Khan, yes.
And Voyage Home
And The Undiscovered Country
Undiscovered Country is my favorite TOS movie, even above The Wrath of Khan.
Undiscovered Country is even better if you watch it in the original Klingon.
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I’d put it above all the TNG movies, too.
I can understand why. The motivations and message are a bit deeper than WoK. But UC wouldn’t have happened (in the same way) without WoK first, since I don’t think Kirk had the same hatred towards Klingons before. Distrust sure, but not revenge level hate.
UC also has that connection with one of the best TNG episodes, Yesterday’s Enterprise.
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Lol, yeah, totally right. I guess I strung those two together being they are part of an undeclared trilogy.
Good point, at worst it ranks about equally with Galaxy Quest for me … Sigourney Weaver weights my ranking a lot though
I will agree that those two movies have the absolute best soundtracks of all the movies.
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The Orville has more Star Trek Vibe than most recent official shows
More than Discovery. Somewhat less than SNW. Not even close to Lower Decks.
A few years back, it was true, though. Picard…
Man I love Lower Decks. It’s just peak Trek. The characters are Star Trek fans who just wanna explore space and don’t want to be embroiled in orion or romulan drama
More then SNW, by a good margin.
Except for the time Ed beams down to a planet to yell at the locals and tell them they’re stupid for still believing in religion. A Starfleet officer would never do that
It’s literally just camp TNG with juvenile humor, mildly annoying characters, and low stakes.
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Honestly I kind of wanted them to keep more of the humorous tone. I know a lot of people hated it and thought it was distracting, but I thought it was a pretty unique take on the genre. I wish they’d toned it down without going full space opera.
It took me a while to get passed the early episodes, they were a little too “family guy” for me.
But the show did get pretty good in season 2, and the humour got better (in my opinion).
I think the humour in the first few episodes was Mcfarlens way of sneaking the show past the network suits - he sold it as family guy meets star trek, then switched on them once it was established.
Literally the case, the first couple eps were written for fartjock executives. Ep 4 onwards were written for the show. It’s why there’s a sudden stratospheric upswing
The humor is the worst. All kidding aside, I wish you all the best.
I bet he didn’t even fuck a ghost!
I’m sure there’s no actual juvenile humor in the armed forces.
Someone didn’t watch past ep 3