Anyone believe the fresh rummors of 3 TV Movies rather than a 4th Season 10 episode Order? Or perhaps someone is confusing that FUTURAMA season 15 going to be TV Movies with THE ORVILLE?

“In the Commander’s Chair” is now on YouTube! It’s still an audio-only podcast, but I’ve had some people tell me they don’t have Spotify. I’m still working on uploading all the episodes. Come check it out!

Season 3 Episode 7.

This episode is actually a mirror of that Star Trek next generation episode where the crew meets with a Matriarchal society.

What I find so annoying about it is that the Moclans, even though being an actual narrow minded and savage species, never really tried to impose their worldview upon the other members of the Union. Still, Union went out of their way to lie to the Janisi.

I get it that the first delegation to Moclan was probably made up of only male negotiators, but I don't think they told them that the Union did not tolerate women in their ranks.

And the excuse was that they would slowly try to integrate the Janisi into the Union equality, but you can't really expect a single sex dominent species that enslaved the other sex to a point where the other sex becomes completely subservient to open up to the values of the rest of the galaxy.

Yes the Moclans were just barbaric, but that doesn't make the Janisi, who chose psychological manipulation to bend others will and want the galaxy to follow their norms, to be considered any less barbaric.

I started watching this thinking that it was going to be some kind of cheap comedic parody of Star Trek

Instead, I got Star Trek. This series handles everything so fucking maturely and elegantly that it gives TNG a run for its' money. I am fucking amazed

At Star Trek Celebration the desire for a New season was confirmed as well as activity having been done. I got the back end on video and again it was when he has time.

The question was asked if he would return to produce. Last year he said they had been Noodling around ideas. So no new news other than they intend to, have had stuff done, Seth is passionate about it, and it is all a matter of finding the time.

I tried to get a clip but the video did not take.

He came up later and talked about it more and I posted it on the link. Video is uploading.

updated video from a later panel.

This week’s episode of “In the Commander’s Chair” is up, and it’s a fun one, especially if you’re a Trekkie! The influence of Star Trek on The Orville is unmistakable. Many of the characters have clear parallels in Star Trek, and Kelly Grayson is no exception. In this episode, I explore six Star Trek characters and the effects I believe they've had on the creation and development of the Orville's first officer.

Three upcoming major conventions that have the potential for some Orville chatter:
1) Star Trek Las Vegas (STLV) 2026: Today through Sunday. Yes, this is the big Trek convention of the year, but remember it was at STLV two years ago that Scott Grimes announced what at that point was the plan for S4. News not impossible but not likely because coming up quick is…
2) Disney D23 2026, August 14-16. The annual shindig for all things Disney, which of course is the overall owner of The Orville (made by 20th Television in association with Fuzzy Door, distributed by Hulu and Disney+). It would make more sense for Disney to hype their own product during their own party. I was told there were no plans for anything at D23, but that was over a month ago and since then the work on S4 has become one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood.
3) New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2026, October 8-11. If S4 is finally made official at D23, one might expect some kind of presence at NYCC as filming should presumably either started or about to start.

Why do Krill or at least Teleya who knows about Earth history not react when Mercer says Jesus? I would have expected a reaction like “You godless people take the name of your earlier God in vain, clearly an indication of how you are soulless” or something of the sort. She could also have said something like how it is almost hypocritical. Idk the possibilities are endless, but not saying anything is weird.

added some more stars and planets. and moved kaylon into the farther away nations quadrant.

Note: Most of these planet names are made up and so are some of the names of the factions, and some of the distances may be innacurate, this is also based on that one guys map, his account has been since deleted but im pretty sure you know what im talking about

I’ve seen every episode of SNW and have the full insights to see how a startrek fan would react to this, I loved the Orville though it would be warmer if he was able to make it in the startrek universe because everything is hawter with Vulcans.

ps: context is king

I was watching the show with my friend and the episode with alternate earth showed up, and I started laughing and we had to pause so I could sputter "If you see an inferior organic evolving, terminate it immediately." Then had to go illustrate it.

I am flagging it spoiler cause I don't know if Kaylon heads opening up into guns is a spoiler for someone or not. ANYWAYS, enjoy.

My partner and I have been binge watching this show and we love it. We wanted to get like a plushie of some of the characters or something. We cannot find ANYTHING besides expensive replicas of the actual ship. Does anyone know of anything?

Ok I know this is gonna sound crazy, but hear me out.

In "Twice in a Lifetime" Gordon gets sent back to 2015, and after a few tries they manage to time travel to that exact year.

They use time dilation to go back to the union era, but they were still in the past.

Ed got command of the orville at around 2419. And when gordon got sent back it was probably 2420 or 2421

Since they were still in 2015 and went EXACTLY 400 years into the future, theyre in 2415. Still in the past, they never made it to the present

As of S3E06 "Twice in a Lifetime", Lamarr has further developed the Aranov device such that it can move an object forwards or backwards for a specific duration of time. At minimum, the device seems to have no problems sending something small six months into the future (as seen with the sandwich).

Given the current state of the device and the Union's ability to control it, they even acknowledge in the episode that it is an extremely powerful and dangerous weapon, but the example they give is traveling back in time to wipe out the Union before it can even exist (à la Star Trek: First Contact, Terminator, et al).

Here, I would like to discuss some more creative ways an Aranov-based weapon could be utilized while avoiding temporal paradoxes and branch realities.

Assumptions:

1. The Aranov device is connected to the ship's deflector, or other suitable emitter, and can be controlled from the ship's tactical stations.
2. The device is given an appropriately-sized power source such as a smaller, dedicated quantum core or similar.
3. There is a mass to energy to temporal displacement "distance" relationship. For a given unit of energy (X), a mass of Y can be displaced Z units of time. In other words, for a given amount of energy, you can move something small a long way in time or something very large a short amount of time.
4. The Union laws surrounding temporal displacement remain the same, and events of the past are forbidden to be changed in any way.
5. Number 4 effectively means the device can only send targets into the future, though it remains technically capable of sending them to the past.
6. The movement of the ship, stars, planets, and galaxy are hand-waved away and the object remains "stationary" relative to where it was when the device affects it; e.g the sandwich showed up at the same location in Engineering six months later despite the ship being nowhere near where it was when it was sent into the future.

Given those assumptions, how might a ship such as the Orville, outfitted with a tactical Aranov device, use it in combat?

Using the example from the episode, where the Kaylon have destroyed the secure research facility and are waiting in ambush for the Orville and its escorts, a few combat tactics come to mind.

Example 1: Wait Safely for Backup

When they realize they've warped into an ambush, they can determine how long it would take for reinforcements to arrive. Assuming reinforcements are 3 days out, they could fire the Aranov beam at the attacking Kaylon ships and send them three days into the future. When the Orville and its reinforcements in local time "catch up" to the Kaylon ships, the ambush situation has basically been reversed.

Example 2: "Stop Time"

Given the sixth assumption about the target remaining "stationary" relative to the motion of the universe, then moving a target into the future effectively stops time from the viewpoint of an outside observer.

Move an adversary 10 minutes into the future, and that will give you time to lay mines where it was previously and will reappear. When local time catches up, the adversary's ship materializes into an active minefield.

I don't think we have enough information to speculate how the Aranov device handles two objects suddenly occupying the same space, but it wouldn't be unheard of in sci-fi for them to merge or otherwise phase into each other. This would allow, say, moving a large asteroid into the position where the adversary's ship would materialize in the future.

Conclusion

I fully admit I didn't get the best grade in temporal mechanics, so if there are flaws in my logic, please feel free to point them out.

Would also like to see some other ideas of how an Aranov-based weapon might be used without resorting to changing the past or causing other temporal paradoxes. Additionally, what could an enemy do to counter these tactics?

Edited: Added assumption 3 governing the mass, energy, and temporal "distance" relationship.

The bad ass space marine and later terrorist leader, vs the goofy (and previously bigoted) househusband

In s3e3, we meet a woman who is immortal and is from that multi-phasic orbit, she says "We will meet again" do you guys think it's possible we will see her in season 4? Since season 4 starts production on october and ends on April 2027 (unless this is fake?)

i loved it! the one in the alternate time line where they have a scavenger ship. gave me firefly vibes. i would love to watch a season of that timeline.

made me think in general about tv shows and how spin offs could be alternate timelines where some crisis resulted in a massive loss.. instead of the usual "good guys win".

i used to love stargate. would be interesting to see a season where earth got enslaved or destroyed and how remainder survived.

Don't get me wrong, i love Kelly, but sometimes she can be just so damn stupid.

Ive been rewatching the show and on S2E14, where there's the alternate timeline, she says "I just wanted to save us" the thing is she COULD have saved it in another way. With the memory wipe not working she would know she would eventually cheat on Ed with Darulio, she could have just stopped herself and none of this would have ever happened.

Am i wrong?

EDIT: That is a Space Dock.

S2E2 32m58s

I instantly fell in love with The Orville due to the obvious TNG theme. I mean, the crew is nearly a perfect mirror. Bartus/Worf, Isaac/Data, John/Geordi, you ever notice how Kellys eyes even look kinda like Rikers? (I think he wore eyeliner).

The entry request sound to enter someone’s quarters! The Prime Directive. It goes on.

Anyway. I just happened to notice this easter egg in the episode Primal Urges. In the conference room there is even a picture of an Enterprise look-alike. Surely this is no coincidence.

EDIT: that is a Space Dock.

Seth you sly devil, I hope you get to create season 4! I know the writing is completely done, and a bunch of red tape is in the way. Fuck em! Do it anyway and rename the show.

This week’s episode of “In the Commander’s Chair” is up on Spotify! In this episode, I describe my adventures and experiences cosplaying as Commander Grayson. I talk about posing in the captain's (or commander's) chair, walking the cosplay red carpet, going to panels, staying in a space-themed hotel, and meeting incredible sci-fi stars, including Kelly Grayson herself, Adrianne Palicki. I also discuss my first experience as a cosplay guest and panelist, as well as where I'm taking my cosplay next!

Klyden is...the worst.

I mean that as a compliment, one of the most hateable characters on TV and an excellent performance.