Seems like the best science youtuber also has good Star Trek opinions

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        (end of Orville spoilers)

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        “How many guests for the wedding? Should we send the entire armada?”

        “That would be appropriate.”

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            That actor was amazing, including in his human-imitation moments and his painfully brief emotional experience. The “make Claire break up with him” slob attempt was one of the funniest moments of the show.

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              He has some of the funniest scenes and also some of the most sincere and heartfelt. Like when he

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              volunteered to do Topa’s trans surgery against Union orders then calmly but forcefully stopped Klyden from interfering.

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                  The Orville gets a lot of mileage out of the Union’s medical science being even more advanced than the Federation’s. Like the early episode where Isaac cut Gordon’s leg off as part of a prank war and the easy answer was to just grow him a new one which took a day or two.

                  All the wacky Moclan traditions were very fun except for the ones that were extremely not fun.

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                    The life support system was by and large in the ship’s interior walls; it was a sort of vegetation construct everywhere.

                    That’s super cool biotech and I loved that bit of background lore.