• 0:00 — Earth, 2418

  • That’s the Statue of Liberty, placing this in New York City – United States.
  • I don’t recognize that bridge. Is this New York?
• 1:00 — That’s the blue guy orgasming, I guess.
• 1:30 — One year later (2419?)
• 4:00 — Holodeck
• 6:00 — Well he’s not captain material.
• 7:45 — Ooh, social commentary on diversity fast-tracking.
• 9:00 — Oh my god, I know her! I tried to place her, but I had to look her up. That’s Penny Johnson Jerald, who for a moment thought I knew from Andromeda – (2000 show) as a princess-Nietzschean, but I’m clearly mistaken. From her career record, I’ve seen her here and there though. She’s definitely recognizable.
• So that’s the Klingon / Worf.

• 9:30 — Racism.

  • That’s a Spock / Data / etc clone.
• 14:00 — That’s a warp drive.
• 18:45 — Maybe she could have just fucking left him alone.
• 19:00 — So he was being a provider.
• 22:00 — I know him from .. from.. a science fiction TV show that I was just recently watching, whose name I can’t now place.
• 23:45 — Close the ship door.
• 25:00 — He’s going to toss/lose those seeds somewhere. It’ll grow in metal.
• 26:30 — Quantum field manipulation.
• 30:00 — How about destroying the prototype and bringing the data and head scientist?
• 33:15 — What the fuck is this?

• 33:45 — Wasn’t the captain injured?

  • 34:15 — Well okay then.
• 34:45 — Hah, I knew it. They didn’t close the ship door.
• 35:00 — Oh I see, seeds + time dilation = insta-thing.
• 38:45 — Called it.
• 40:00 — Arbor Day

• 40:15 — Except the thing is that it would need material to grow, so was it consuming metal somehow? It wouldn’t have had enough in its immediate area to do that. Sigh.

This has already given a strong impression.

• 0:30 — Kermit the Frog
• 2:00 — He really shouldn’t be trying comedy on that subject at all.
• 3:45 — Also report back so you can get backup..
• 4:45 — I know the guy on the right from various places.
• 5:15 — I might recognize her as well.
• 6:15 — Well the captain did eat one of those seeds. Did he chew it enough?
• 7:00 — You wouldn’t be in that uniform if you weren’t fast-tracked for diversity.
• 7:15 — Why is the first officer going with them? Shouldn’t she be staying on, seeing as they were attacked recently?
• 9:15 — Why aren’t they armed?
• 11:15 — Or maybe have shipboard communications for his constant advice.
• 14:00 — That thing has amazing technology that would be game-changing to learn.
• 17:15 — Obi-Wan Kenobi
• 20:30 — I forgot to mention it earlier: Dora the Explorer[doesn’t exist]
• 26:00 — I recognize the mother’s voice.
• 28:15 — Shamu
• 31:00 — “Or worse”.. get everyone captured, killed, or start a genocidal war of retribution for the sport of killing the alliance or federation or whatever they’re called.
• 34:00 — Compton, California
• 35:00 — Yeah, except their scanners are awesome, and they know about that holographic technology.
• 37:45 — How come there still isn’t any thought about freeing others?
• 40:15 — Elvis Presley

• 41:45 — Reality television

  • The Bachelor (U.S. TV series)
  • Duck Dynasty
  • Keeping Up with the Kardashians
• 42:15 — I like how she didn’t try to free one of her own people. Think of the children.
• 42:45 — How much time has passed, that it would hatch?

• 43:00 — What about the admiral and others’ reaction to her disobedience?

cliffhanger-esque ending..

• 2:30 — “Okay”. Roll credits.
• 3:45 — Hippocratic Oath
• 6:00 — Girls Just Want to Have Fun – (1983 song), by Cyndi Lauper
• 14:00 — Shouldn’t they be wearing safety gear?
• 16:30 — Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – (1964 movie)
• 20:45 — Clearly all of this is heteropatriarchal oppression.

• 21:45 — Board games:

  • Scrabble
  • Candy Land
  • Monopoly
• 22:15 — Anti-bullying law.
• 23:45 — I don’t quite recognize that song and I don’t feel like looking it up..
• 29:15 — Comparing alien species. Doesn’t work.

• 30:00 — Okay, now find a male of her species.

  • Thank you.

• 31:30 — Bill Nye the Science Guy

  • And other things I didn’t want to look up / list.
• 32:00 — What about social inferiority?
• 33:30 — Yeah, they’re half females. But how the fuck did he scan so much so fast?
• 36:45 — What testimony? What the fuck? She’s evidence of how shitty the life of a female would be.
• 39:00 — Utterly unrelated. She still lived a shit life, and so would the baby.
• 41:15 — Yay, another life saved from utter ruin by an evil parent, by a good legal system and loving society.

• 0:30 — Oh god, so (s)he is the woman of the couple.
• 2:30 — Why aren’t they treated like a proper gay male couple?
• 4:30 — Why would they get that close?
• 13:15 — Jehovah’s Witnesses

• 21:00 — Drop a buoy.

  • 21:15 — Thank you.
• 26:45 — She should overpower him and all that.
• 31:00 — Central Perk is a reference to Friends – (1994 show)

• 33:45 — I hope they don’t leave her gun behind.

  • 35:30 — Oh good.
• 38:00 — Wow, there’s a cameo.

• 41:00 — William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • And a couple of other names..

• 0:15 — Seinfeld – (1989 show)
• 7:15 — Oh, that’s whats-her-face.
• 19:15 — Nancy Drew
• 28:00 — The Klingon back there has a blue halo.
• 31:45 — Amelia Earhart
• 32:30 — See also Millennium – (1989 movie)

• 2:00 — See also Michel Lotito
• 7:00 — Spoils system
• 22:30 — He left his thingy/camera there? Ouch.
• 31:30 — Lesser of two evils man.
• 33:45 — .. vampire hunters.
• 34:45 — Where’d that device come from? Why does it have human numerals and use human time?
• 39:00 — Or maybe shoot out the light of that room.
• 40:15 — Good thing they use the same weapons systems.

• 41:15 — Aloe vera (for his skin burns)

Ooh, major story arc development.

• 2:00 — I caught what was going on right away, but they’re actually going with this.. this is disturbing. Also, something like this is happening in China. No, really. Happening right now.
• 3:00 — Well okay now, not this. Yet.

• 6:00 — So.. what about her nose?

  • 7:00 — Thank you.
• 7:45 — Vasectomy. I don’t know if I ought to classify this as casual misandry.
• 7:45 — Wait, since when do they have cloaks?
• 9:00 — Bustin Jieber = Justin Bieber
• 9:00 — They would really stick out without their vote-badges.
• 14:15 — Social justice.
• 23:30 — Direct democracy
• 23:30 — American Idol – (2002 show)
• 25:15 — Couldn’t they hack into that system or something?
• 27:15 — Cultural appropriation, which is a good thing, but in social justice land, it’s bad.
• 28:30 — I still don’t understand why they didn’t do surgery or some shit.
• 34:45 — Or they could hack the system.

• 10:30 — Hey look, free doctor.
• 13:45 — Barry Manilow
• 18:00 — Okay, so they have translators, somewhere.
• 21:15 — Now I definitely recognize him.
• 23:30 — They’d be thirsty anyway.
• 24:00 — Glory hole (sexual slang)
• 30:30 — Wouldn’t he first go get a bandage quick?
• 39:30 — How many? Do they. Do they carry around an arsenal to their vacations?
• 40:45 — While they’re distracted, one slips by and steals the little kid.

• 0:30 — This is a better play on the concerts that were on Star Trek – The Next Generation – (1987 show)
• 2:00 — I thought what’s-his-name could sing.
• 2:45 — Usually what will happen is the “colonists” can’t leave because it has become their ancestral home. See also Israel’s depositing of fortified towns along the spaces they’re claiming.
• 2:45 — If only she had some means of faster-than-jog communication.
• 17:45 — I figured it was pheromones right from the beginning.
• 19:45 — No progress is needed, he made the scans.
• 21:00 — I do recognize him, oh my god!
• 38:30 — No they can’t. That’s absolutely ridiculous.
• 41:00 — Seriously not cool.
• 43:30 — So.. rape. Are we not using the word rape?

• 0:30 — Screensaver
• 1:30 — .. or a robot? A robot could life a thing. Engineering might have robots.
• 10:30 — Oh wow, I recognize both of them.
• 12:30 — Coulrophobia [ 1 ]
• 14:15 — Her lipstick is awful. What the fuck is with women wearing clown-makeup? I would have even used that reference if it weren’t a clown-moment, but seriously, what the fuck.
• 15:15 — Don’t they have.. like a procedure? Why involve command staff, aside from the security chief?
• 19:45 — Peyote
• 23:00 — How could she live?
• 24:30 — Where is the ship anyway?
• 31:30 — Why has she been wandering around?
• 36:30 — If only there were some sort of supply of energy which could be interrupted.
• 40:30 — I’m not going to bother listing these phobias.
• 41:30 — I quit anyway. Roll credits.
• 42:15 — She never exited the holodeck.

• 18:30 — No power.. but it’s engines are lit.
• 20:45 — God I hate the fucking reverse-raccoon makeup on women.
• 22:15 — Are they not going to talk about him breaking into the captain’s office?
• 23:30 — Gum drops seem inappropriate to feed to a gelatinous being.
• 27:15 — Or maybe they could keep the weapons on that ship, back away, play dumb-yet-tough and let the guys take it as salvage.
• 30:45 — Could they drop a buoy off and have it flatten out or leave debris.
• 31:00 — Flatland
• 31:45 — Jane Austen (See also /tag/jane-austen)

• 34:45 —

  • Doctor Who
  • Oscar the Grouch
  • Snoopy
• 41:00 — No, he wouldn’t and shouldn’t want to be chief engineer. It would take him away from his best friend.
• 42:00 — Dumbo – (1941 movie)
• 43:00 — Why ever would he get promoted? None of this makes any sense at all.

• 2:00 — Is that palatable?

  • .. oh
• 3:15 — Hot potato (game)

• 11:00 — Why ever would she go over there? That’s just stupid.

  • Hell, I would have stayed on the ship, or near it, and made sure scanners are going. I wouldn’t want them coming close or getting in.
• 15:30 — The planet disappeared awfully quick for any of that to be reasonable. Maybe the anomaly is also rotating in the opposite direction?
• 18:45 — Or just scan it bunches more..
• 20:00 — Or get the hell away from there, because it’s a life sentence if they stay too long.
• 28:00 — What happened to the other.. many days?
• 32:45 — Well that’s a holy war that will wipe out all life.
• 37:00 — That guy is like the worst person to give that much time to, considering the way his species thinks and works.

• 41:00 — So in all that time a science vessel wasn’t dispatched?

Continues with The Orville season 2 notes