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 […]
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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 […]
The Orville – Series Premiere Review
The Setup In the 25th century, Earth has joined the Planetary Union, a governing body with a fleet of ships used for exploration and defense (sound familiar?). In this century, Seth MacFarlane partnered with producer Brannon Braga to create a show centered around one of those ships: The Orville. MacFarlane’s fame comes from his previous […]