DID SETH MACFARLANE READ ADVENTURE—INTO THE NEVERLAND BEFORE COMING UP WITH HIS OWN STAR TREK SPINOFF, THE ORVILLE?

As not much of a TV or screens person (except for writing on the computer), when Seth MacFarlane’s excellent 2017 Star Trek spinoff Sci-Fi comedy-drama, The Orville, aired (and was first viewed by JH in early 2019, into Season 2), a thought hit all but immediately.

The Orville uses as “home,” an exploration starship crewed by people considerably more laid-back and “human” than Star Trek’s “rigidly” military crews, as might be expected on a “mid-level exploration vessel.”

Since Adventure—Into The Neverland was published in 2002 and featured characters more comedic / “human” / less “military-staid” than Star Trek’s  (perhaps “stuffy”) “Federation officers”…it is arguably possible.

To quote those great mid-late 20th century British philosophers, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, “…ooh, it makes me wonder.”

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