Can someone open this pickle jar?

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.
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.
It's literally just camp TNG with juvenile humor, mildly annoying characters, and low stakes.
- I'm sure there's no actual juvenile humor in the armed forces.
- Someone didn't watch past ep 3

This show is so freaking Star Trek that it out-Star Treks the Star Trek.

When that second episode of the first season dropped I said the same thing to a friend that's a die hard Star Trek fan. They weren't enjoying the new Trek, yet, but wanted the thought provoking episodes now, action later/sprinkled in
Totally agree, it's definitely more Star Trek than any of the new Star Trek series.
I heard the review "better Trek than Trek".
People keep saying this, so as someone who has only watched half of the first season, when does it get to this point?
I mean it's amusing enough, but it's just a pastiche of cliches and obvious gags. People keep saying that it distills Trek down to its essence or something like that, but to me it seems like "watered down" would be more accurate.
- Having a bad first season is as Star Trek as you can get. All kidding aside, it gets better and more serious with time.
- Just like TNG it starts picking up in the 2nd season and really hits its stride on the 3rd season. If you were to rewatch TNGs first season without the nostalgia goggles you’d consider it pretty campy too.
- After the first season it begins to feel a bit less campy and the crude humor is toned down a bit and even more so I feel by the third season. The overall plot starts to show itself in season 2 and just gets better from there.
It's an alternate universe's Star Trek. They just need some handwavium device to cross universe and they could make a crossover episode.

When are we getting the Wilbur TV show? That's what I want to know.
- it's been a long road . . . .
- We definitely do need that show...

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So which one of those guys is Orville?

This makes sense, we all remember Katherine Voyager Janeway
- Or the Jean-Luc The-New-Generation Picard
They're standing inside him.
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- Is it his birthday?

The Orville literally made me give Star Trek an actual try. I think of it as my first series of Trek.

Orville was such an aimless show in the beginning. Obviously it started out going for campy comedy parody but it honestly wasn't hitting the mark on the comedy often enough. I'm stalled out somewhere in early Season 3--not because I wasn't enjoying it, I think it's actually gotten pretty good by that point, but just time and other commitments.

I prefer the first seasons that they didn't take the show too seriously. The last ones (or last one?) Was way too dense, with episodes way too long that got be bored at half episode every time.
- I agree, earlier seasons had the right balance
I had the opposite experience lol! I really liked the first season, season 2 started off pretty well, but I lost interest before I got to season 3. It felt like the later episodes were either too preachy, or too focused on trying to make the characters "cool" instead of funny. I just wasn't enjoying it any more

Average Orville fan

Until Strange New World came out, Orville was my favorite Trek since TNG.

I love Trek but I don't really care for McFarlane's sense of humor, is the Orville worth checking out anyway?

- My theory for the behind the scenes:
  McFarland: I would like to make a star trek parody!
  Fox: oh sounds awesome, lots of funny jokes and stuff. Should be funny.
  M: yes haha, funny.
  F: yes... Anyway here's the money
  Making episode one
  M: I gotta make sure there's loads of jokes so I can show this to execs and they see the haha bits
  Making episode 3
  M: okay I think they're gone... Time to just literally make normal star trek episodes
  making the last episode of s1
  F: hey I see you're almost done with the first season so I'm just checking in that the show is still funny
  M: quickly adding in as many jokes as the last second as possible haha yes humor! Jokes! Plenty of them! Haha yes
Yes. They tone down the humor over time
The drama bits and plotlines are every bit as good as TNG/Voyager/DS9, but if you don't like McFarlane's humor, I doubt you would like the other 75% of the show's content.
- But the humour is like at its highest like 15% of the show

I'm not sure the mods are going to care honestly. I think most are in agreement that the Orville is basically star trek adjacent, and close enough that.... Honestly as long as it doesn't take over, nobody will bat an eye at the occasional Orville meme.

- Bronies are so cringe.
- I like how Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Tang are pretending just a collar counts as a uniform