bernsteinschroeder t1_jbpz9ru wrote on March 10, 2023 at 8:42 PM

Reply to comment by jamiestar9 in Was Season 3, Episode 4 of Picard, "No-Win Scenario," one of the best episodes of Trek in the past 20 years? by stumpcity

Discovery and Pickard are original (sophomoric, and pretentious) stories trying to wear a Star Trek skin.

Even more unfortunately, since we know audiences still prize the Star Trek sci-fi motif by looking no further than The Orville. I absolutely detest 99.999% of Seth MacFarlane's humor and The Orville hits far more than enough of the sci-fi / Star Trek notes for me to look past it to love (and strongly recommend) the show.

Locutus747 t1_jbq4x9p wrote on March 10, 2023 at 9:19 PM

Strongly disagree. Couldn’t make it past a few episodes of the Orville. Not at all shocked the show didn’t make it past 3 seasons

Sawses t1_jbqhz67 wrote on March 10, 2023 at 10:48 PM

I gave up on the series after the first episode. Then I watched a few more years later and it hooked me. It basically morphs from Star Trek parody to the best Star Trek show we've had since DS9.

bernsteinschroeder t1_jbq5bcf wrote on March 10, 2023 at 9:21 PM

I understand that. They played the (ahem) "humor" stronger in the first few episodes but it then tones way down the longer the series goes.