Yep. That’s “Inner Light”

I was more looking at it from the standpoint that he didn’t need the phone in the real world. He just needed it as a prop in the simulation when he was with her so he would seem like everyone else to her.

Exactly. The Captain is watching The King and I with Yul Brenner so I assume he at least would know who Dick van Dyke is. But his friend Gordon never saw Mary Poppins? I mean, if Disney kept making sequels every 50 years or so then they’d be on about Mary Poppins 8 by the time the show is set, and then the crew could…

I thought about this too, but these questions have come up with earlier episodes, particularly the Bortus porn episode.

I don’t mind when the show echoes stuff that’s been done on Star Trek. That seems kind of the premise anyway and there have been enough episodes of Star Trek and Doctor Who and the like that if you watch enough stuff everything new is going to seem similar to something you’ve already seen (an idea that was the premise…

As for the movie, looks like Seth has probably seen it.

This episode set the Star Trek blender to frappe:

“Ironically, for being all about 2015, this episode has almost zero 20^th century pop-culture references.”

I think the main point was that she was still affected by the Control virus beaming her back would have just put the ship at risk again since they didn’t know how to cure her of it? So she’s like, “kill me just in case!” Which would imply that she was doomed as soon as she was infected, no matter what. Harsh

I’m a bit surprised by this review — not in its appreciation for the episode, but for apparently glossing over the fact that the future-crisis storyline — in which “Control” is apparently a computer program that becomes sentient and decides at some point the best course of action is to wipe out all life — is straight…

So, the ship Ed is supposed to meet for peace talks is firing on its own shuttle, and he doesn’t immediately think that helping the shuttle might endanger the peace talks? Clearly the Krill were firing on that shuttle for a reason. I’m surprised they weren’t more pissed off that Ed helped them.

“its own thing was also completely random and impossible to intuit from anything we had watched.”

Also not even the first time the Orville has done it with Xelayan booze. Alara’s drink of choice was Xelayan tequila.

On the other hand, removing the nitrogen from the room, leaving it with I guess pure oxygen, is just a fire trap waiting to happen.

Yeah, but I think he turned the safeties off.

Of course, suggesting they throw it out the airlock wasn’t off the table, either.

Not only were the fast-paced edits of The Cage clips annoying, but also that they seemingly bypassed using the visual effects from the remastered version in favor of the grainy old-school Enterprise. For a show that has taken a lot of heat for its visual style seeming so anachronistic with previous depictions of the…

When the show hinted that the Red Angel was from the future, my first reaction that it might tie into the Short Trek “Calypso,” since that episode seemed so far removed from anything the show was actually doing (and the Saru short tied in directly to the season).

When the season first started I was thinking I would be more interesting in seeing him and Rebecca Romijn and a whole crew of recast characters from The Cage just do the version of Star Trek that that show set up before they retooled it with Shatner. Just do the adventures of Pike’s Enterprise.

The liner notes for the season 1 soundtrack suggest Seth MacFarlane himself has a huge hand in setting up the temp track. Bruce Broughton says Seth set up the temp track for the pilot episode (that episode used a lot of Broughton’s “Lost in Space” movie score and some Jerry Goldsmith for the temp track).

The Kaylons marching into the ship with their head cannons gave me a serious Doctor Who vibe.