Ok, so I’m about twenty minutes in so far and I do appreciate all the little Trek tropes and nods, but I’m not finding it particularly funny yet and I dislike the main guy (holy shit, I’ve just realised that’s what Seth MacFarlane looks like), his vibes are bad and the whole ex-wife cheating thing is tiring as character motivation for them both.

The best friend pilot guy seems like a dick too, that stunt he pulled swerving the shuttle about while approaching the Orville is going to be hard to redeem himself from.

Also captain and his ex-wife look like siblings, they practically have the same face with gendered variations to their features. Very weird watching them talk side by side.

Really nice to see Brian George! I wish he had time to say banana again before it all kicked off.

Nobody thought to put a safety guard on the banana aging ray? Or to pull Janice out of the banana ager ray before she got olded to death? This is not only poor lab safety but a terrible work environment, there should at least have been a safety stick near by to push things out of the ray.

Those Krill landing ships are sexy af, all pointy and sleek. The Orvilles landing pod looks like an orthopedic nurses shoe in comparison.

I will admit though, I do like how curvy the main Orville up in space is, those Trekky slow shots pulling up to it earlier in the ep were very cool too and I liked that obviously shot in miniature shot of them disengaging from the space station.

Trying to remember which aliens the Krill face and armour designs are reminding me of, they’re so very familiar.

Lmao I think it just hit me with the “Give me the device.” Krill who snuck onto their landing pod. They look Scarren! All this chap needs is a bit of face bondage and a better accent and he’s practically Scorpious.

That’s a great Micheal Dorn impression the ungendered annual pee alien on the helm keeps doing, I do hope this character gets more development though.

The framing thing would have been funnier if I liked the capitan more as a character but he and ex-wife involving the Scarren/Krill negotiator in their marriage problems was actually quite funny. They really do look like siblings though, ugh.

These Union guys sure do kill a lot of people. Those phasers earlier were definitely not set to stun and that time traveling tree bomb utterly massacred that Scarren vessel.

Ugh, the complete lack of chemistry between the captain and his ex-wife is grating. The implications they’re going to get back together, with those lingering shots of their faces while they talk, is annoying. She is so much more competent than him and is for some reason benevolently propping up his career, and yet we as an audience are seemingly supposed to be rooting for the pitiful captain who gets off on humiliating his ex wife in front of his coworkers? And she chose to stay?

The music for this show is hilarious and I appreciate how on the nose they made it.

All in all, this isn’t actually bad for a first episode of a Trek show. 90’s Trek is just as, if not more, annoying in many similar ways. Just as good though too.

I’m going to keep watching and come back next week to rewatch and leave a few words about episode 2.