Live Face-Off Poll: "Star Trek: Discovery" vs. "The Orville"

Ruby,

Thanks.

STD (will never call this trainwreck DSC or worse, Disco) is a blight on the legacy and good will of Trek. Once finally over, it will not be remembered. When a show makes ENT seasons 1 & 2 look better by comparison, there is a problem.

Orville has Trek's heart. It has Trek's writers. Not knockoff hacks from the CW.

Amen, brother.  The utopian society of Roddenbery would have him turning in his grave as to what CBS and Bad Reboot have done to dirty the name of Star Trek. Back in 2011, Seth MacFarlane offered CBS a Star Trek with his ideas, they foolishly turned it down.  Fox did the right thing and went with the genius that is Seth--Seth Trek. 

No, the Orville is THE ORVILLE. Star Trek is Star Trek. If Seth wanted to make a Star Trek show, he showed have gone to the franchse.

He did go the franchise owners and they shot him down.  Bad move on their part.  

Hi Kevin Tinsley,

This poll went live over two years ago. Last week this poll had 608 votes. Today there is 1,469 votes.

I'm curious why there is a sudden interest in this poll. Was a link to this poll posted on a Star Trek forum?

JP from Egotastic Funtime brought it to a lot of peoples attention. Frankly, many are tired of these insane Drekkies attitude about the show being the success both monetarily and commercially when it is perfectly obvious that it severely lacks in quality at writing and acting and everything else maybe save their special effects budget . Has to be pretty to placate the Gen Z Ritalin masses . I’ll pinky swear on that

Mick Dees,

Thank you for the information.

Mick Dees, et al,

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No, The Orville is a show for those who still live in the late 80s, where TNG was mainstream TV SF. We don't live in that world any more. If you want to watch TNG, don't watch the ORville, ...watch TNG.

No, we watch the Orville. STD is a pile of complete garbage in comparison. No use trying to deflect from the reality that the Orville is the superior property . Thank you for playing now. I hope you enjoy your lackluster television entertainment.

José Ramón Serrano
The Orville is a show for those who still live in the late 80s where TNG was mainstream TV SF. We don't live in that world any more

Yeah, gotta love the nonsense that spills out of the Gobshite community. What are you trying to say man? Because we live in a world revolving round the lowest common denominator, people who think anything new must be an improvement or progress.

As bad as most things are right now, I'm at least glad that people like you didn't get in the way of Star Wars or Indiana Jones, and dare I say it - The Orville. As others have pointed out to you, Seth MacFarlane tried to bring back Trek at CBS, but was sneered at by the people who ulltimately gave us STD.

Hi Irfan Alisic,

It's possible you followed a link for voting for Orville.

Link for poll: http://www.imdb.com/poll/S4sUKr1ryp8/
Link for poll results: https://www.imdb.com/poll/S4sUKr1ryp8/results
Link if you voted for Star Trek: Discovery: https://www.imdb.com/poll/S4sUKr1ryp8/results?answer=1
Link if you voted for Orville:https://www.imdb.com/poll/S4sUKr1ryp8/results?answer=2

I have actually spoken at length with a couple STD fans.  When asked about the other Star Trek they enjoy they said they watched TOS and TNG as children, tried a few episodes of VOY/DS9/ENT, and love STD.  When I've tried to encourage them to go back and watch the old series or finish the series they have started, they have zero interest.  I watch all Star Trek about once per year.  This is the difference between the fan groups, and why STD merchandise is non-existent. They do not have the same rabid fanbase as what the Canon Timeline has, which is why they're doomed to struggle on scraps.

They really don't.

I was wary of that until I watched the first few eps. It has a joke or two, sure, especially earlier on in Season 1, but it’s really nothing like Family Guy in space. That negative slant generally comes from the irrational STD defenders (aka “Drekkies”) who can’t support valid criticisms of the show.

NO SOUP FOR YOU! (Had to do that. Sorry)

No, it is tone deaf. I understand it is a Seth love affair with TNG, but it as no grasp of nuance or how to deal with the themes. I have watched most of it, but can't get beyond 1/2 a show because, 1 the adolsecent humour, and 2.  of how they deal with serious subjects; the holocaust, segregation, murder, genocide, whatever, they go through the motions very a la 1970s.
In one episode they murdered a whole bunch of the baddies, like they were having a few beers in abar and in another, the went to a planet save a few of the epole and ...thats it. No remorse for the ones they couldn't.
There was actually one episode where they went after the holocaust...oh dear.

Discovery is not for us wh saw the original show. It's for the 21st century youtube people and world we live in.