Shatner looking good for 87. Picard looking healthy as well. I wish I was rich.
Janeway really cleaned up from her wreck of a look on Orange is the new Black.
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Shatner looking good for 87. Picard looking healthy as well. I wish I was rich.
Ever since CBS confirmed that it was making an All Access Star Trek series based on Jean-Luc Picard, there's been one main question: namely, what's the story? You now have an inkling of what it will entail. Show creator Alex Kurtzman has revealed that the streaming show will tie into events mentioned in JJ Abrams' 2009 Star Trek movie, and that this has a dramatic effect on the iconic character (fair warning: there are spoilers for that movie below).
In that first Abrams flick, Spock mentions that he failed to save the Romulan homeworld, Romulus, from a supernova that followed several years after Star Trek: Nemesis. That event and the subsequent end to the Romulan Empire "radically altered" Picard's life, Kurtzman said. Picard had spent his career simultaneously defending against and seeking peace with the Romulans, and their collapse was bound to change everything. Patrick Stewart said he wasn't going to reprise the role unless it could challenge expectations for Star Trek, and this clearly fits the bill.
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There are still many unknowns, including the release date. There's little doubt that a lot is riding on the Picard series, though. CBS has multiple Star Trek shows in the All Access pipeline, but this is likely to be the most important given its story and star power.
New Star Trek = The Orville.
CBS has done a crappy job with Discovery so why expect them to do any better with Picard?
st: ng was phenomenal.
made it through only a few episodes of the orville. disliking seth aside, i just didn't find it all that good.
You haven't watched enough Orville either if you think it's cheesy space comedy.
Go watch The Trouble with Tribbles some time. That's a pretty cheesy episode of TOS and it's one of the most loved.
oh i agree, although that was extra cheese and the original. while next gen is generally pretty serious and has moral dilemmas and good philosophical explorations whereas the orville seems to be too much of a comedy. so even if it does bring something up it seems like it will have a bunch of jokes in it along the way and take something that could be deep and make it shallow. idna maybe i should give it another chance, i bailed pretty early, maybe ep3
Check out episodes in TNG like The Naked Now and any of the Troi (Diana's mother) episodes. TNG had plenty of fun in the series. Picard was actually skipping in The Naked Now.
Orville does the same. Some comedy episodes and some that have comedy but are more serious. The show has evolved a bit from the first few and will continue to do so. Plus, I like the comedy. It's more real than a tight ass military style program.When Gordon loses his leg, it's hilarious and believable in the context.
While I agree there is way more humor in Orville than TNG, there are some episodes that despite some of the one liners fit right into TNG.
I love episodes 3, 4, and 7. And others as well.
The show's creator, Seth MacFarlane, is a self-confessed Trekkie and has even appeared in two episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise" ("The Forgotten" season 3, episode 20 and "Affliction" season 4, episode 15). Like so many of us, MacFarlane grew up watching "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as it aired in the late 80s and early 90s and that has certainly influenced how the "The Orville" looks.
"It's a love letter to 'The Next Generation,'" said Mark Jackson, who portrays Isaac on the show. "I think it's a really beautiful thing. Seth has captured the best elements of that show and transported them into 'The Orville' and made it a different show."
Could be you have matured so that type of show doesn't appeal to you the same way. I loved TNG when it came out but I laugh at it when I watch episodes now.