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The Orville season 1, episode 3 “About a Girl”
Written by Seth MacFarlane, directed by Brannon Braga.
The entire crew is excited to see the newest addition to Bortus & Klyden’s family - a rare Moclan female. Without warning, Bortus demands that Dr. Claire Finn (Penny Jerald Johnson) perform a sex change operation to convert his newborn to male. After Bortus’ demands are rebuffed by Dr. Finn and Captain Mercer, a Moclan cruiser is called to take the child away to Moclus. However, Bortus has a sudden change of heart and the crew of the Orville steps in to defend the child’s rights in a court that views being female as a birth defect.
Originally released: 21 September 2017
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What did you think?
Definitely liked it. It’s the series’s first “courtroom episode”, and they did it fantastically while also tackling real issues.
It also kind of highlighted how Bortus is quite progressive for a Moclan (or just in general, all things considered). I’m slightly stepping on a later episode , but his progressive outlook wasn’t a result of his time with the Planetary Union, though they did help him expand it (e.g. the Rudolph scene).