Caught the premiere of The Orville. I should probably put this in The Unpopular Opinions thread, because I liked it a whole bunch. It's off-brand Star Trek, as roleplayed by your college RPG group, including the toilet humor. It's not mocking like Galaxy Quest, and it's not as antiseptic as Star Trek, even though the show is put together the same way, even down to scene transitions, shot composition, and beats.
One of my favorite bits was the straight up comment to the robot/synthetic bridge member, "Aren't you guys like super racist or something?" and the robot responds, "We consider all other races inferior, yes." It was refreshing to see the old trope rolled out against a modern rubric. Spock would frequently talk about the inferiority of humans, how their passion overwhelmed their intellect. Bones dropped into racist terms EVERY time Spock's decisions bothered him. Klingons felt anyone without their combative philosophy were weak, and only worthy of destruction. Basically, most of the villains in Star Trek are racist, and so are many of the sympathetic characters. Seeing put out here center-stage frames it anew.
