I watched Orville and was quite pleased. The visuals are gorgeous, I’m a little surprised they managed to pull that off on a TV budget. The humor can be a bit bluer than I care for at times but it’s not too bad. You can tell they were very earnest with the writing on this series and it feels like a love letter to classic Star Trek. There’s a real heart to it.
So if Discovery turns out to be the disaster in making it seems to be at least we’ll have one decent new Trek series to watch.
As Jonathan Frakes and Robert Duncan McNeil are supposed to each be directing an episode, the Trek connection is getting stronger.
Maybe they’ll get Patrick Stewart to play a warped version of Picard? 😉