On Epsilon, during a Krill attack, crewmembers of The Orville run through the station and then over to a small vessel to get back to their starship. That's definitely a Kirk-worthy trick, but it's too bad the only laugh-out-loud joke came just minutes before the episode's end.Īs a Trekkie, I also spotted a potential plot hole. After the Krill start the activation code, a tree literally begins to grow and age rapidly in the middle of the Krill's ship, completely destroying the vessel. The Orville crew agrees to hand over the superweapon, but they also place a redwood seed on top before sending it over. 'It takes work, right? Compromise, right?' Grayson says.īut when asked if a neglected wife could reasonably seek comfort in another's arms, the Krill commander kills the mood by saying 'No, that would be selfish,' and proceeds to fire again on the ship - prompting MacFarlane's next interesting script maneuver. 'A marriage is work,' the commander acknowledges, suddenly and humorously turning reasonable for a moment. The eponymous ship in 'The Orville,' a new space-comedy show premiering Sept. To 'buy a few minutes,' as Grayson said sarcastically, she started asking the commander about how he balances his home and family life. The first took place during a typical 'alien threatens to blow up the ship' sequence, when The Orville's management confronted the Krill commander onscreen. The literal bathroom humor wore thin very quickly, but in the last 10 minutes there were two key sequences that showed MacFarlane's chops. 'Permission to go pee' was one of the cleaner ones. But the jokes sounded like an episode of 'Family Guy,' if the characters wore uniforms. There were the usual dramatic shots of starships, the joy of going warp speed across the universe, the very Starfleet-like uniforms - all familiar tropes of an episode, and all very well executed. 'The Orville' is billed as a 'Star Trek' spoof, but spoofing was unfortunately sparse.

Of course, the show's Klingon-esque baddies, called the Krill, want the weapon, too.

Aronov (Brian George, best known as Babu from 'Seinfeld) has a new experiment-turned-weapon: a quantum bubble that can accelerate time, which also means it can age and kill people in seconds. The crew - joking about Mercer's failed marriage and what you can and cannot eat while on duty - then heads over to the space station Epsilon, a location that at first appears boring because there are no bars and no strip clubs, as the crew discovers during a scan.

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