The Orville is already a solid, enjoyable hour of television. This review and most of the other negative reviews are all variants on the same issue of critics wanting the show to be either another dreary interpersonal drama-fest (like ST:D) or an out and out comedy like Seth’s other shows (for which I blame the…

Four episodes in to its first season, The Next Generation wasn’t just mediocre, it was almost terrible. It took a while for the best Gene Roddenberry had to offer to learn how to walk, whereas The Orville is already taking several steps at a time.

You name the show on nowadays, it’s a genre fiction soap opera with plots just inched along during the ep. That gets tiresome. And I believe the writing skill bar is much lower for such soap operas, just dragging stuff out, so MacFarlane gets kudos for going back to the tell-a-story format. Even if this result was…

I am hoping the jokes ramp down further as the series progresses. They are the weakest point, though I’m most certainly not advocating they lose the humor altogether.

All good points. Based only on what had been suggested about Moclan biology on board the Orville, I felt like cleft palate analogy was the right one - for Moclan’s, a female morphology is a deformity - and thus I was on the side of “correcting” the baby. But the chauvinism displayed during the tribunal suggests a much…

I wonder if it was intentional to make the all-male species an industrial race obsessed with weapons — emphasize the macho-ness of it all. If so, nice touch.

But, the problems of biology referenced in the review were something I wondered would come up when it was mentioned in the first episode that the Moclans were all…

RIGHT?!? JJA had so horribly mutated and mutilated the franchise with his non-reboot reboot, taking place in an alternate universe mind you, that people have totally forgotten that Star Trek was supposed to be about issues. Trek has always been at its best when it was less about action and melodrama and more about…

Is no one going to add that the entire episode, from the title to the Good Day death scene (and those windchime sound effects!), is one giant homage to the sadly underrated Gwyneth Paltrow classic Sliding Doors? Am I officially an old?