osric
Active Member
My take on The Orville so far is that it is actually NOT meant to be a parody or satire of Star Trek.
Now that we're four episodes in this is exactly how I feel. It's really just a rip-off of Star Trek. I had hoped it would be a parody along the lines of Galaxy Quest, but it's not at all.
Given the amount that they've cribbed from Star Trek -- the uniforms, the ship design, the lingo, the sound effects, the transporters, the food replicators, the talking computer, the Data stand-in -- I'm surprised they haven't been sued yet. It would be really easy for a layperson to mistake this for just another branch of the Trek franchise.