Trektember: Mad Idolatry | The Orville
The Emissary from Above I’ve always had a complicated relationship with science fiction when it tries to tackle religious subject matter. More often than not, the religious ideologies are minimized and dismissed as lunacy, while a fundamental belief in the…
Trektember: New Dimensions | The Orville
Much like trying to decide who your favorite iteration of The Doctor is for Doctor Who fans, I think that the Star Trek series a Trekkie loves most is usually the first one they spend any real time with. I…
Trektember: Firestorm | The Orville
One episode after she put out a fire for a joke, Alara is so terrified of fire that a crewman dies due to her hesitation in the face of some fire. It’s not an auspicious beginning. There are a lot…
Trektember: Cupid's Dagger | The Orville
Recap The Orville is called to Lapovius to broker a peace treaty between the planet’s two warring races, the Bruidians and the Navarians, who both lay claim to the planet. We are told the two groups have agreed to settle…
Trektember: Into the Fold | The Orville
Recap On a trip to a play planet for children, Dr. Finn, her sons Ty and Marcus, and Isaac are drawn into a spatial fold (a spatial anomaly that is a fold in spacetime) and crash land on a moon,…
Trektember: Majority Rule | The Orville
Nothing says classic science fiction television quite like an obvious moral allegory, right? A close second would be the whole thing where you pretend a single city represents the culture of an entire planet. You gotta love it. These things…
Trektember: Krill | The Orville
This is the episode that brought me back to The Orvile after what I saw as a shockingly dull, unfunny and vacuous first episode made it the lowest of priorities for me. Here I saw what Seth MacFarlane was really…
Trektember: Pria | The Orville
The Economy of Redemption Storytellers and philosophers of nearly every century have speculated about the wondrous “second-chance” scenario, wherein a doomed individual or group is presented with a new lease on their legacy and future. The Orville – which frequently…
Trektember: If the Stars Should Appear | The Orville
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God! —Ralph Waldo Emerson I wasn’t familiar with Emerson’s quote before I…
Trektember: About a Girl | The Orville
The third episode of The Orville is, in many ways, a microcosm of both the flaws and strengths of the program (at least early on). Let’s begin with a plot rundown, which will be easy as there is not much…