What Happened This Week? Captain Mercer stayed on board the Orville in this week’s episode (The Orville 107), as Kelly led a mismatched collection of bridge crew officers on an away mission. With Dr. Finn, Alara, and Lamarr, Kelly searched for a pair of missing Planetary Union anthropologists on a mission to research a familiar-looking […]
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The Orville 105 – Pria – Review
What Happened This Week? Who better to deliver The Orville 105’s lesson, “Trust your First Officer”, than Jonathan Frakes? Our beloved Commander Riker guided “Pria” into our coveted favorite episode spot this week. Main Plot The Orville crew narrowly saved the Captain (Charlize Theron) of a doomed ship in a high stakes game of comet-stranded […]
The Orville 104 – If the Stars Should Appear – Review
What Happened This Week? After last week’s “message-episode” morality play, the crew of the Orville return to more conventional explorations in The Orville 104. James Conway, a directing veteran of all four post-Star Trek TOS series helms this episode which borrows plots from STTOS, but looks a lot like a Star Trek TNG episode. The writers named […]
The Orville 103 – About A Girl – Review
What Happened This Week? Remember last week when we predicted that the birth of Bortus’ female child would have major repercussions on the next episode? Well, here we go. In just the third episode of this young series, The Orville 103 – About A Girl, creator Seth MacFarlane and his writers took on a myriad […]
The Orville 102 – Command Performance – Review
What Happened This Week? This week, Star Trek Voyager alum, Robert Duncan MacNeill (Lt. Tom Paris), directed episode 102, entitled “Command Performance”. As sci-fans, we always enjoy seeing the cross-pollination of one property over into another when it works as well as this. By having MacNeill and other Trek directors work on the Orville, Seth […]