Critics hate The Orville , Seth McFarlane’s uncanny love letter to Star Trek and The Next Generation , but they love the gloomy, ultra-2017 Star Trek: Discovery . Viewers love The Orville , though, while remaining divided on and indifferent to the new official series. The critics are mistaken; the viewers are right. I was surprised at how intimately Seth McFarlane — Seth McFarlane! — is tuned into Gene Roddenberry’s sense of humanity’s future potential and why it’s OK to have a shipful of lovers. It’s TNG with dick jokes! And, let’s face it, the time is right for some happy technocommie utopian SF.
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The Orville is better than Star Trek: Discovery
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