“You know how some books you read the title, and then you can pretty much guess where it’s going from there?
Orcs in Space.
I have my questions about how involved Justin Roiland was in this. When I watch Rick and Morty or Solar Opposites, I feel his stamp on it, but this doesn’t have that spark of hilarious cruelty, which you’d think would be a slam dunk with orcs mingling with much friendlier Star Trek types. It doesn’t hit those highs.
I guess I also sort of thought this would be a riff on the Star Trek thing where it’s sort of hilarious to have Klingons, this war-like race, who somehow developed warp capability, a very science-y thing. They sort of hate bookworm types, yet somehow figured this all out? I’m not sure how that happened. Maybe there’s a secret, shameful part of Klingon culture where their nerds are kept in a secret bunker or something, toiling away on science projects and spaceships so that the jocks can all go punch each other in space.
I don’t know why I thought that’s what this would be, but I did, and once I went down that road, I was a little disappointed. “