They built up the gorn already, so I am expecting the next episode to be a heavier one with some more space fighting with the gorn. Personally I think they are cutting a path around the Klingons in order to avoid having to address the horrendous discovery fiasco.
Yeah, I don't know how they're going to fix that fricken mess.
I mean Enterprise did handle the Klingon change from the bumpy headed Klingons from Next Generation to the smooth headed Klingons from the original series.
You know the Klingon's that were more like space pirates and space jerks, then the dour Blah blah blah honor Klingons of later years.
The Discovery Klingons were annoying and stupid, and their makeup was so heavy that they literally looked like doffuses in Masks.
Maybe they need to do an episode where Pike asks about that "You don't look like the Klingon's that the Discovery interacted with".
Random Klingon Captain - "Those weren't Klingons they were tribbles wearing masks and we exterminated them"
That would explain the great Tribble hunt that work talked about in DS9, in the tribbles episode.
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in general this crew is pretty hawt. Spock with the Guild haircut was almost enough to make me switch sides. also I get the impression that Anson Mount is a big corny nerd in real life because he does goofy much too convincingly.
whether this episode "hit it" for you or not, the important thing is that the writers trusted you enough to understand what this was in Star Trek terms. can you imagine the showrunners of Discovery and Picard trying to do one of these? "hrrm, too much levity. our focus groups indicate that audiences only want serialized Dark Trek. let's throw in a scene with a beloved legacy character getting their eye torn out of its socket with rusty space tongs."
my only minor concern is that we're burning through Trek episode templates pretty fast. so far we've gotten
- disguised away team
- mediation between primitive warring factions
- threatening ancient powerful alien that's actually benevolent
- crew infected/mind controlled
- submarine warfare
- shore leave hijinks
- peaceful alien civilization with a dark secret
- surprise takeover of Enterprise by alien guest
- LARP
if we get a time travel/loop or mirror universe episode before the end of the season, I'll be a bit worried. but then again, maybe we just need the comfort food after years of being force fed some executive's idea of haute cuisine.
Oh, there are still lots of Star Trek tropes left:
- robots are real people too
- trial
- time travel to present-day earth
- your gods are wrong
- your gods are just aliens
- racism is bad, okay
- thinly-veiled metaphor for present-day events (incoming planet Ukrain, Trump-like leader, or pandemic special)
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Oh, there are still lots of Star Trek tropes left:
- robots are real people too
- trial
- time travel to present-day earth
- your gods are wrong
- your gods are just aliens
- racism is bad, okay
- thinly-veiled metaphor for present-day events (incoming planet Ukrain, Trump-like leader, or pandemic special)
Have no fears we've got stories for years!!
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Oh, there are still lots of Star Trek tropes left:
- robots are real people too
- trial
- time travel to present-day earth
- your gods are wrong
- your gods are just aliens
- racism is bad, okay
- thinly-veiled metaphor for present-day events (incoming planet Ukrain, Trump-like leader, or pandemic special)
Don't forget, the Enterprise stuck in a god's snow globe.
Enterprise crew forced to do what they don't want to do by gambling gods
Satan puts the Enterprise on trial
God puts the enterprise on trial
F Lee Bailey (Hologram) puts the enterprise on trial.
Enormous misunderstood horny space beast attacks and has sex with the Enterprise.
Special guest star's galore.
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in general this crew is pretty hawt. Spock with the Guild haircut was almost enough to make me switch sides. also I get the impression that Anson Mount is a big corny nerd in real life because he does goofy much too convincingly.
Sexiest thing on the show is still the Enterprise.
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I'm Orville illiterate but I'm sure they had a good time playing that up. come to think of it...Christopher Pike, Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Jess Bush are all excellent porno names.
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