• MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I like that McFarlane just said “fuck that” in The Orville. He kept the gist — leave developing civilizations alone — but doesn’t even consider allowing them to go extinct for stupid reasons.

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      1 year ago

      Really early on, too. It was one of the things that made me go “oh wait this isn’t just fart jokes in space”.

      Though to be fair, the reality is that no matter how advanced we get there’s still gonna be fart jokes in space. That scene in the cafeteria where everyone’s getting Bortus to eat random things seems like a far more realistic vision of a space-faring post-scarcity future.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah ‘if the stars should appear’ was the point all of us sat up and went “HELLO”

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        Yeah, but in TOS we also see what happens if you forget a book about the chicago mob of the 1920s on a developing planet.