I’m enjoying TO, but think the show has to decide what they want to be, as there is a fine line between comedy and drama.
Galaxy Quest is one of my favorite
Star Trek style spoofs and it is funny. Star Trek can cover some weighty issues just because it’s not particularly funny, although there were some funny moments, like tribbles, and
Captain’s Holiday here Picard picks up an “I Want Sex” statue for Ryker on a vacation planet, but does not know what the statue symbolizes, as he keeps being propositioned.
For
The Orville, I’ve noticed that the best episodes in this series, the comedy takes a back seat, or is absent all together. Think about
Star Trek Discovery Season 1, imagine that story if they threw in lame jokes, or haha moments. The story would be diminished.
In the Moclan episode
Sanctuary (S2E12) with the hidden planet, I don’t remember anything funny in that episode. In the
Identity Episode Part 2 (S2E9) where Gordon ends up in a Krill Fighter, and he throws a mean look growling at his Krill contemporary in a second ship flying next to him. Ok, it was funny, meant to be funny, but this battle was serious business, and I felt it was out of place and diminished the character and the seriousness of the event, people were dying. Do we want to take him and this battle seriously or not?