This scene absolutely deserves to stand shoulder to shoulder with any Trek scene, new or old. It's scenes like this that earn The Orville recognition as honorary Star Trek, and not only a parody.
Galaxy Quest has scenes that also make it into this category.
If any of yall have kids, sign the fuck up. 1 book a month till they’re five. Thats 60 book guys. Plus your kid gets mail, and that is a treasure in itself.
Man, I've got family that received some of those books. The program brings more good to people's lives than I think anyone that hasn't seen it directly realizes.
Even if Dolly was a fairly typical celebrity otherwise, and did that, i'd still have nothing but love for her.
The success of the sitcom [I Love Lucy], which ran for six years, allowed her and her husband to purchase their own studio, Desilu Productions. ... Four years later, Roddenberry came to Desilu with an idea for a pilot that would grow into Star Trek. Ball bought the series, even if she didn’t quite understand it;
I just happened to notice that Captain Pike, while trapped in his chair, only able to make beep beep noises, at least has full control of his chair operating system by running LineageOs.
Like, if I were asked by extraterrestrials to provide them with examples of the human experience, I would give them biographies of Dolly Parton, Fred Rogers, Carl Sagan, Nicola Tesla, Stephen Hawking, Bob Ross, and many others who I feel are the best among us. Who best exemplify humanity. Granted not all of us have lived up to those examples, and not many will, but they are quite possibly the best humans.
Never meet your heros. Stephen Hawking went to Epsteins island, apparently. People are complex and multifaceted, and most have darkness inside them that their public image obscures.