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posted by CharlesTheBoldSTAFFMOD on September 28, 2017 at 9:09 PM
The most recent episode combines two classic science-fiction stories from the 1940s -- Heinlein's "Universe" ( a huge spaceship goes adrift and its inhabitants forget what they are) and Asimov's "Nightfall" ( a culture sees the stars for the first time in centuries; Asimov's story contains the Emerson quotation that the doctor recites at the end of the story.
I might add that both of the original stories had tragic endings.
Reply by Tim-Buktu
on September 29, 2017 at 10:07 AM
I was thinking of TOS: "For the Earth is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky"
Reply by CharlesTheBold
on September 29, 2017 at 3:58 PM
"I was thinking of TOS: "For the Earth is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky""
That too, but that also traces back to Heinlein's "Universe".
Reply by Patrick E. Abe
on September 29, 2017 at 4:09 PM
I haven't been paying that much attention to episode details, but the "Star Trek Odd/Even" curse seems to operating. (Which means episode #5 has all the potential of "Star Trek V"?)
Reply by znexyish
on September 29, 2017 at 5:33 PM
Let me toss in "The Starlost",70s Canadian sci-fi series kind of written by Harlan Ellison
Reply by Nygma-0999
on September 30, 2017 at 9:20 PM
I watched "For the Earth is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky". Im not going say which one is better. But it think the Orville version is a tad more believable. In that Star Trek episodes it was all sets and nobody seemed to live on the surface. Here you have people living under a dome that simulates a planetary atmospheres. Just Saying.
Reply by Knixon
on October 1, 2017 at 2:40 AM
Yes I mentioned that too, on another thread. Also this:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51k2b5