And I thought… it smelled bad… on the outside!

Also a great way to reuse some of those existing costumes and sets.

And more plausibly than TOS’s “Hey! We found a planet where it’s Earth except Abandoned/Nazis/Romans/Gangsters/Cowboys!”

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The Orville is a weird show. It hews very closely to the format and production design of 90s Trek (including a lot of budget-conscious decisions), and many of the creatives have a Star Trek background going back that far. Frankly, I think a lot of the scripts were from the TNG slush pile. It’s clearly a love letter to those shows.

However, it’s also clearly Seth MacFarlane’s love letter. He gets to be the captain. His friends and lovers get to play major parts despite sometimes not really having the acting chops for it. The characters are all obsessed with the cultural touchstones of white American Gen-X’ers. In the early going, the Family-Guy/Ted/etc. sense of humor is front and center, and while that gets much better, it never fully goes away. One can also just about imagine 20-something Seth and his buddies screaming at the TV that there is no moral ambiguity in a given ST episode and that Jean Luc needs to just pick a side.

In some ways, it can be pretty rough, but then, mostly because it is such an earnest homage, it’s greater than the sum of its parts. I never fell in love with it the way many have, but after wading through the first few episodes and getting a feel for what it was and wasn’t, I grew fond of it. I’d say it’s worth watching, but you don’t have to apologize for not fully buying in. TBH, I feel fairly similar levels of tempered fondness for Disco, though for very different reasons.

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Absolutely, though I had sort of forgot how the Neelix prosthetics can be low-grade Nightmare Fuel without Ethan Phillips bringing him to life.

Jeez, I wish I’d thought of that.

I really enjoyed Prodigy, but good lord the Dauntless is fugly.

Apparently if he says, “I want a sweet but utterly untrained pibble doing scenes with me,” you also say yes.

Say what you will about the tenets of the Obsidian Order, but at least it’s an ethos.

I know we only have the one episode, but honestly Jeffrey Hunter could have really grown into that role nicely if he hadn’t turned down the second pilot. Shame he didn’t live long enough to revisit Trek I some way. Interesting What-If there.

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Unwanted centralization is a fair enough complaint, but honestly us normies are mostly just… normaling.

Close enough.

Enterprise, especially early on, was very… gooey.

Voyager on iOS has worked well enough I haven’t gone hunting for anything else. On desktop I like the Alexandrite front end.

Your average woodworking router is already running at something like 20k RPM for ~6mm and larger bits. High speed should do fine on wood, at whatever feed rate doesn’t burn it. Maybe just use light passes to save your endmills.

That said, I am most assuredly NOT a CNC machinist, just a nerd with woodworking tools and a couple of low end maker devices that run gcode.

We also would have accepted “underqualified nepobaby with anger issues,” but perhaps that’s redundant.

the guy playing Quasi

Sam Richardson is a treasure who is not always in excellent projects, but he elevates every project he’s in with his excellence. He’s perfect in Veep, and his guest appearances in Ted Lasso are brilliant.