@Knixon said:

Tonight's TNG ep on H&I channel is "Half A Life" where David Ogden Stiers plays a scientist from the planet Kaelon 2.

On The Orville, Isaac comes from Kaylon-1.

I wonder if that was possibly intentional?

That TNG episode is also the first appearance of Michelle Forbes in a guest role.

Much of what The Orville did re: Star Trek was intentional. They've redone a few of the TNG episodes. Look at Star Trek's "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky." The Orville did an episode mimicking it. That's just one episode. They've done three or four remakes of episodes Star Trek did.

Sure, the copied episodes. But similar/copied planet names seems a bit different/beyond.

Why?

Maybe it's just because I notice more than younger people would. For example, how many people who see The Orville recognized the reference to "Admiral Halsey?"

@Knixon said:

Maybe it's just because I notice more than younger people would. For example, how many people who see The Orville recognized the reference to "Admiral Halsey?"

That has nothing to do with the age of a person, but what a person has or has not been exposed to/holds interest in/has researched. If someone is into history, they're going to know more about what's happened in the past than other people. If someone is into music, they're going to know more than people who just casually listen to a song. Etc. It's got nothing to do with how old or young someone is.

Maybe it shouldn't, but it does. There are a lot of people who still wonder, "What? Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

And, to be fair, unless you know all the details about all the big bands that were popular 40 years before YOU were born, how fair is it to expect young people today to know all about the rock bands - even the Beetles - that were popular 40 years before THEY were born?

@Knixon said:

Maybe it shouldn't, but it does. There are a lot of people who still wonder, "What? Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

And, to be fair, unless you know all the details about all the big bands that were popular 40 years before YOU were born, how fair is it to expect young people today to know all about the rock bands - even the Beetles - that were popular 40 years before THEY were born?

It's called studying Music History and educating yourself. This is the problem with school and society today. Nobody is learning anything. Too many of today's youth are vacating their minds with "social media," and being glued to their phones or whatever. And instead of using that technology to better themselves and do something semi-useful and look up things about the past, or god forbid, actually picking up a REAL book and LEARNING something or Googling/Binging/Whatevering (yes, I know, not a real word) something to IMPROVE their mind, they use it to become mindless automatons. If I can take the time to educate myself about music, specifically music which interests me, so can ANYBODY. There is simply no excuse to not learn. Ignorance is not bliss.

@Invidia said:

It's BEATLES (not BEETLES) KNIX.

I typed it correctly. The site "spell-checked" it and changed it. There are some interesting little bits like that on this site, including the inability to refer to Star Trek TOS producer Gene Coon.

Maybe not too surprising, though. IMDB used to censor references to Josie And The Pussycats.