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From a legal perspective, no character from \"The Orville\" should attempt to qualify as an Expy. Star Trek is Paramount\'s intellectual property... so an unambiguous and deliberate copy of another, Paramount character is copyright infringement.
I\'ve come across a few reviews of \"The Orville\" by people who wrote for [=TNG=], [=DS9=], and Voyager that have commented on the brilliance of [=MacFarlane=] positioning \"The Orville\" as a parody instead of directly calling it an \"homage\".
A parody has greater latitude regarding \"fair use\" of characters, situations, and settings and gives [=MacFarlane=] the wiggle room he needs to create a really good \"Trek-homage\" series without drawing as much legal scrutiny from Paramount. It certainly helps that \"The Orville\" has been so well received because it helps boost Paramount\'s \"Star Trek\" mindshare.
However, it\'s going to mean that \"The Orville\" will always be presenting characters or races that are maddeningly similar to something in Star Trek, but will never quite qualify as an Expy.
I\'ve come across a few reviews of \"The Orville\" by people who wrote for [=TNG=], [=DS9=], and Voyager that have commented on the brilliance of [=MacFarlane=] positioning \"The Orville\" as a parody instead of directly calling it an \"homage\".
A parody has greater latitude regarding \"fair use\" of characters, situations, and settings and gives [=MacFarlane=] the wiggle room he needs to create a really good \"Trek-homage\" series without drawing as much legal scrutiny from Paramount. It certainly helps that \"The Orville\" has been so well received because it helps boost Paramount\'s \"Star Trek\" mindshare.
However, it\'s going to mean that \"The Orville\" will always be presenting characters or races that are maddeningly similar to something in Star Trek, but will never quite qualify as an Expy.
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From a legal perspective, no character from \"The Orville\" should attempt to qualify as an Expy. Star Trek is Paramount\'s intellectual property... so an unambiguous and deliberate copy of another, Paramount character is copyright infringement.
I\'ve come across a few reviews of \"The Orville\" by people who wrote for [=TNG=], [=DS9=], and Voyager that have commented on the brilliance of [=MacFarlane=] positioning \"The Orville\" as a parody instead of directly calling it an \"homage\".
A parody has greater latitude regarding \"fair use\" of characters, situations, and settings and gives [=MacFarlane=] the wiggle room he needs to create a really good \"Trek-homage\" series without drawing as much legal scrutiny from Paramount. It certainly helps that \"The Orville\" has been so well received because it helps boost Paramount\'s \"Star Trek\" mindshare.
However, it\'s going to mean that \"The Orville\" will always be presenting people or races that are maddeningly similar to something in Star Trek, but will never quite qualify as an Expy.
I\'ve come across a few reviews of \"The Orville\" by people who wrote for [=TNG=], [=DS9=], and Voyager that have commented on the brilliance of [=MacFarlane=] positioning \"The Orville\" as a parody instead of directly calling it an \"homage\".
A parody has greater latitude regarding \"fair use\" of characters, situations, and settings and gives [=MacFarlane=] the wiggle room he needs to create a really good \"Trek-homage\" series without drawing as much legal scrutiny from Paramount. It certainly helps that \"The Orville\" has been so well received because it helps boost Paramount\'s \"Star Trek\" mindshare.
However, it\'s going to mean that \"The Orville\" will always be presenting people or races that are maddeningly similar to something in Star Trek, but will never quite qualify as an Expy.
