I don’t get it, she’s clearly watched the episode. She didn’t ask Who’s Picard? or What lights?

The Orville is the best of pretty much all the new Trek. It’s a new story, it’s not a retread, it’s well done, and best of all it’s not Discovery.

I say it’s the best because it’s not a prequel or a retread. It’s its own story, and it’s also really fucking well done.

I think SNW took some notes, and that’s why it works. And I cannot fucking believe we STILL do not have a normal post-DS9 show.

(I usually skip the TNG sequence too. I love it, but it’s loud and long, and loud.)

Well, they all look like really good F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

In the end, I think The Orville is the best of all the new stuff.

Did it ever occur to you that the other way is objectively corrupt and immoral? It’s not even unspoken immorality anymore. It’s just plain old comic book levels of evil. We just blew up another fishing boat, because they’re brown. It is pure unabashed racist villainous behavior.

So yeah. He did say that. So what?

Ok, but why are the colors reversed?

Have I…met any Chimps? Uh, no, I guess they go to different bars than I do.

And fine. Sorry, I’m not a scientist, as evidenced by my question–which still hasn’t come close to being answered.

Right, because we had better stamina than predators, and then developed intelligent brains. But are apes?

Are apes considered predators? I kind of thought they were just neither.

Ok? Good thing a full season is only ~20? And the benefit of a full season is the character development, which is where the gold comes from, not some 10 episode story you forget about next week.

It’s an electric current. So it would be as long as the charge is still present. If it wears off, it resets

Ah, but what about a witch who’s magic doesn’t mean she can just send the Reverend to Mt Everest, or wave a wand and turn the noose into licorice, but she can shift thought patterns, lower a fever, or entangle two pocket mirrors and use them like surveillance cameras? And that’s why the story won’t break history.

Ok, that last one may be pushing it a bit.

So it turns out the French actually invented metric, which I had no idea, lol. Colette does have occasional correspondence back home, and she originally came as a Royal Court spy. So it’s conceivable shed learn about it and start using it because it’s objectively simpler. But I’ll fix it in the flashback scenes.

Cool, thank you! A question about sentence fragments. I see them used often in prose, and sometimes they just feel right, but then I get a comment about the fragment, like now. I’m just curious why. This is still an early draft, and I’m not that experienced with this form of writing, so I’m not objecting, but is there a rule?

And by heavy chain, I mean thick, not heavy weight, which i believe is a pretty common use of the word?

I do have to ask though, did you like it?

The trials are 1692. But I admit it didn’t even occur to me to check for that. But also, my main characters are French. They’re not really pilgrims, and definitely not Puritans. But they have been here since 1497, so I guess that doesn’t matter.

And we’re sure that Steam Frame isn’t like a Batman Forever thing.

I’ll add that I do truly mean sci-fi/fantasy. I’m trying to take a (soft) sci-fi approach to the story’s magic, because I’m following history as closely as I can. Mostly.

I very much appreciate that, thank you. I’m actually new to this fiction thing. This was the final scene I needed for an Act 1 rough draft, and it’s probably one of my favorite scenes :)