History YMMV / StarTrekNewFrontier

* SpiritualAdaptation: ''Series/TheOrville'' is channeling ''Film/GalaxyQuest,'' and this. Similar mix of humor and drama, similar MoodWhiplash, similar classic Franchise/StarTrek feel, similar MindScrew concepts, as well as the concept of the Captain's Ex being his first officer.

* SpiritualAdaptation: ''Series/TheOrville'' is channeling ''Film/GalaxyQuest,'' and this. Similar mix of humor and drama, similar MoodWhiplash, similar classic Franchise/StarTrek feel, similar MindScrew concepts.

* ActorAllusion:
** Morgan Primus, who is apparently "Number One" from the original Star Trek pilot (played by Majel Barrett). A RunningGag has her constantly compared to ''every'' character Majel Barrett played. And she eventually ends up inside the computer (Barrett also provided the computer voice in modern Trek).
** In ''Stone and Anvil'', Picard is asked if he runs Starfleet Academy. He responds he wouldn't want to run a [[Film/XMenFilmSeries school of gifted youngsters]].

* FridgeLogic: Why bother giving [[{{Hermaphrodite}} Hermats]] their own set of [[PronounTrouble pronouns]]? If the pronoun in Hermat language doesn't translate, they're welcome to borrow one from a language whose pronouns are not gendered. [[UsefulNotes/ChineseLanguage Chinese]], for example has ''tā'', which is gendered only when written, and ''then'' only when written in the logograms 他 or 她.
** Hir/xie already existed as potential genderless pronouns in English before the series was written, used by and for people who do not fit traditional gender binary. They're just not seen often seen outside of maybe Website/{{Tumblr}}.
** In-Universe, the Hermats devised their own pronouns for use with other species, which may account for them not using previously existing ones. Also, Hermats emphatically do '''''not''''' regard themselves as genderless, but instead as having both genders. Burgoyne's reaction to Hermats being compared to the (literally) genderless J'Naii strongly implies that Hermats regard being considered genderless as an insult.

** Hir/xie already existed as potential genderless pronouns in English before the series was written, used by and for people who do not fit traditional gender binary. They're just not seen often seen outside of maybe Website/{{Tumblr}}

** Hir/xie already existed as potential genderless pronouns in English before the series was written, used by and for people [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment who do not fit traditional gender binary]]. They're just not seen often seen outside of maybe Website/{{Tumblr}}

* SpiritualAdaptation: If ''Series/TheOrville'' isn't channeling ''Film/GalaxyQuest,'' it's channeling this. Similar mix of humor and drama, similar MoodWhiplash, similar classic Franchise/StarTrek feel, similar MindScrew concepts.

* ShockingMoments: Series average of 2 per book. That's not surprising when we consider some of the content: a giant energy being shaped like a flaming bird, which hatches out of a planet and later impregnates a starship; a one-eyed, one-horned, giant purple people eater; a woman who looks like Lwaxana Troi and Christine Chapel, and is immortal...who then dies, except that her consciousness is now inside a starship; a helmsman who regularly sleeps at his post and is a god, the son of Odin/Zeus; a hermaphrodite chief engineer (hir whole species is hermaphroditic) who impregnates a Vulcan, of all people; and a book partially set inside a pocket universe that is, for all intents and purposes, a jellyfish. Basically, the series is one giant MindScrew.

* ShockingMoments: Series average of 2 per book. That's not surprising when we consider some of the content: a giant energy being shaped like a flaming bird, which hatches out of a planet and later impregnates a starship; a one-eyed, one-horned, giant purple people eater; a woman who looks like Lwaxana Troi and Christine Chapel, and is immortal...who then dies, except that her consciousness is now inside a starship; a helmsman who regularly sleeps at his post and is part Greek god; a hermaphrodite chief engineer (hir whole species is hermaphroditic) who impregnates a Vulcan, of all people; and a book partially set inside a pocket universe that is, for all intents and purposes, a jellyfish. Basically, the series is one giant MindScrew.

* CrazyAwesome: Pretty much what the series thrives on. It combines a Marvel comic book mixture of sci-fi, mythology, fantasy, and Pulp action with a WorldOfSnark sillinness before merging it with ContinuityPorn ''Star Trek'' fun. It is awesome as well as crazy, not just CrazyAwesome.

* HolyShitQuotient: Series average of 2 per book. That's not surprising when we consider some of the content: a giant energy being shaped like a flaming bird, which hatches out of a planet and later impregnates a starship; a one-eyed, one-horned, giant purple people eater; a woman who looks like Lwaxana Troi and Christine Chapel, and is immortal...who then dies, except that her consciousness is now inside a starship; a helmsman who regularly sleeps at his post and is part Greek god; a hermaphrodite chief engineer (hir whole species is hermaphroditic) who impregnates a Vulcan, of all people; and a book partially set inside a pocket universe that is, for all intents and purposes, a jellyfish. Basically, the series is one giant MindScrew.
%%** Creator/PeterDavid.

** Hir/xie already existed as potential genderless pronouns in English before the series was written, used by and for people [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment who do not fit traditional gender binary]]. They're just not seen often seen outside of maybe Website/{{Tumblr}}

* ActorAllusion: Morgan Primus, who is apparently "Number One" from the original Star Trek pilot (played by Majel Barrett). A RunningGag has her constantly compared to ''every'' character Majel Barrett played. And she eventually ends up inside the computer (Barrett also provided the computer voice in modern Trek).

** Creator/PeterDavid. That is all.

** Hir/xie already existed as potential genderless pronouns in English before the series was written, used by and for people [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment who do not fit traditional gender binary]]. They're just not seen often seen outside of maybe Website{{Tumblr}}

* SpiritualLicencee: If ''Series/TheOrville'' isn't channeling Film/GalaxyQuest, it's channeling this.

** Pretty sure that hir/xie and already existed as potential genderless pronouns in English before the series was written.

** In ''Stone and Anvil'', Picard is asked if he runs Starfleet Academy. He responds he wouldn't want to run a [[Film/{{X-Men}} school of gifted youngsters]].

* CrazyAwesome: Pretty much what the series thrives on. It combines a Marvel comic book mixture of sci-fi, mythology, fantasy, and Pulp action with a WorldOfSnark GenreSavvy sillinness before merging it with ContinuityPorn ''Star Trek'' fun. It is awesome as well as crazy, not just CrazyAwesome.

** PeterDavid. That is all.