{"id":6566,"date":"2018-12-20T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T22:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2020-08-21T20:41:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:41:17","slug":"sci-fi-tv-show-making-of-the-orville-book-the-world-of-the-orville-titan-books-2018-jeff-bond-interview-artanddesignsff-episode-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/2018\/12\/20\/sci-fi-tv-show-making-of-the-orville-book-the-world-of-the-orville-titan-books-2018-jeff-bond-interview-artanddesignsff-episode-88\/star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-fi tv show book &#8211; &#8220;The World of the Orville&#8221; (Titan Books, 2018) &#8211; Jeff Bond interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fsfasf%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fsfasf%2FSci-Fi_show_The_Orville-Jeff_Bond_interview-AAD_Episode_88_.mp3&amp;podcast_link=http%3A%2F%2Fcrisalvarez.com%2F2018%2F12%2F20%2Fsci-fi-tv-show-making-of-the-orville-book-the-world-of-the-orville-titan-books-2018-jeff-bond-interview-artanddesignsff-episode-88%2Fstar-trek%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/sfasf\/content.blubrry.com\/sfasf\/Sci-Fi_show_The_Orville-Jeff_Bond_interview-AAD_Episode_88_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/?powerpress_pinw=6566-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/sfasf\/content.blubrry.com\/sfasf\/Sci-Fi_show_The_Orville-Jeff_Bond_interview-AAD_Episode_88_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Sci-Fi_show_The_Orville-Jeff_Bond_interview-AAD_Episode_88_.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1317421236?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fcrisalvarez.com%2F%3Fp%3D6566\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6575 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Jeff-Bond-final-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Jeff-Bond-final-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Jeff-Bond-final-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Jeff-Bond-final-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Jeff-Bond-final.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bond has written multiple books on science fiction shows and movies. He was executive editor of Geek magazine, Senior Editor at CFQ, and he writes about film music for the Hollywood Reporter. We talked about his recent book on the show <em>The Orville<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>0:52 \u2013 Jeff talks about how he got into writing a book on <em>The Orville<\/em>. He\u2019s been a sci-fi fan since he was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>4:01 \u2013 Jeff talks about how Star Trek has become it\u2019s own genre.<\/p>\n<p>5:47 \u2013 Jeff talks about how the producers of <em>The Orville <\/em>were not trying to make a<\/p>\n<p><em>Galaxy Quest<\/em> kind of show.<\/p>\n<p>10:03 \u2013 Jeff talks about the tone and goals of the show. The producers drew from Star Trek TOS and the Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n<p>13:08 \u2013 Jeff talks about the actors and acting in the show.<\/p>\n<p>16:29 \u2013 Jeff talks about how good Adrianne Palicki is in the show.<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 Jeff talks about Seth as the captain of the ship and the set of <em>The Orville<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>23:59 \u2013 Jeff talks about how they did the casting and how they\u2019ve brought in a lot of people who have worked on various Star Trek projects.<\/p>\n<p>27:19 \u2013 Jeff talks about how he organized the book and his interviews with the production people on the show. The book is sort of a \u201cmaking of\u201d and also a bit of a technical manual for the show. Jeff talks about how the ship was designed.<\/p>\n<p>33:13 \u2013 Jeff compares the show to Star Trek TNG.<\/p>\n<p>35:45 \u2013 Jeff talks about the show\u2019s budget and also the design of the set, lighting, costumes, and make-up.<\/p>\n<p>42:06 \u2013 Jeff talks about technical differences the show has from other tv shows.<\/p>\n<p>44:43- Jeff talks about the writing process for the show.<\/p>\n<p>57:05 \u2013 Jeff talks about the design and music of the credit sequence.<\/p>\n<p>58:39 \u2013 Jeff talks about the music on the show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Links of interest<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/titanbooks.com\/9462-the-world-of-the-orville\/\">https:\/\/titanbooks.com\/9462-the-world-of-the-orville\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lazymodeler?lang=en\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/lazymodeler?lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more of \u201cThe Art and Design of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Mystery and Horror\u201d please follow me on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crisalvarezwlc\/\">crisalvarezwlc<\/a>, on youtube at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCYw0Ym8UDBOkOUQ7_Ddj5zA\">Cris Alvarez<\/a> and on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/crisalvarezscifi\/\">@crisalvarezscifi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests: <\/strong>Jeff Bond<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host:<\/strong> Cris Alvarez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags: <\/strong>science fiction, sci-fi, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, television, The Orville, Seth MacFarlane, spaceships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Jeff Bond has written multiple books on science fiction shows and movies. He was executive editor of Geek magazine, Senior Editor at CFQ, and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/2018\/12\/20\/sci-fi-tv-show-making-of-the-orville-book-the-world-of-the-orville-titan-books-2018-jeff-bond-interview-artanddesignsff-episode-88\/star-trek\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956,1003,45,186,55,252,41,175],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-6566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allthesciencefiction","category-allthestartrek","category-art-and-sci-fi-interviews","category-author","category-interview-audio","category-orville","category-star-trek","category-television","tag-podcast","odd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12503,"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions\/12503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}