The more I watch The Orville, the more it seems to get Trek more than modern Trek does. Sure all the 20th/21st century based jokes take you out of it, but the allegories have been well done and it does okay with character-based arcs.
As Trek goes further away from what it once was, Seth wants a show that's more traditional with his spin on it. No one would ever take him seriously in a Captain's chair on a Canon Trek project, so he's built something like it around himself, and it kinda works.








