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The Orville’s Seth MacFarlane on Those Star Trek Comparisons
When The Orville premiered back in 2017, its arrival coincided almost exactly with Star Trek: Discovery, the first new Trek TV show in over a decade. Comparisons between the two series were inevitable, with even Gizmodo calling The Orville a “Star Trek spoof” in our earliest coverage of the series.
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Strange New Worlds Has the Classic Star Trek Vibe You’ve Been Waiting For
Star Trek’s grand return, first with Discovery, and now with what feels like a whole flotilla of series, transformed the franchise into a series of heavily serialized adventures for the most part — a distinct break from the style that had largely guided the franchise for half a century prior. With Strange New Worlds, it…
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Strange New Worlds’ Opening Titles Are a Star Trek Nostalgia Assault
Ironically, by being so different from all the other Star Trek shows going on right now, Strange New Worlds’ wholehearted embrace of the nostalgia for the original Star Trek is what’s making it stand out from the pack — and its new opening titles are no exception, a gorgeous riff on classic Trek in a…
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture Remaster’s First Trailer Boldly Goes to Ultra HD
Way back in 2001, Star Trek fans were delighted to receive a director’s cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with enhanced visual effects, on DVD. For a film that director Robert Wise originally felt was rushed to theatres — and definitely had incomplete visual effects — the remasters version of the movie was a…