Went into this not knowing what to expect, other than some laughs. People keep comparing it to Star Trek or TNG. Well, the 1st episode (albeit 2 part) of TNG, I thought was rather weak; was not a fan of the entire 1st season of it. The Orville was not weak and I enjoyed it. Gave nice incite into some characters without wasting most of the episode trying to 'over-explain' them; little drop of background here and there. It was not "all laughs" as some have said it would be (was?! did they watch it?). The sets are a lot more detailed that I was expecting and looks worthy of the real Star Trek production; just need to be darkened and a lot more camera flare! lol They did NOT try to duplicate the Star Trek crew with duplicates of Spock, Bones, etc which I found EXTREMELY refreshing! Loved ST:TNG and have friends who are just as big of fans, but we all know Data was the replacement Spock - I see no Spock here unless the metal dude (sry, know no names good enough yet) turns out to be something like him, but he already seems too different. Overall, I gave it a 9/10 and would really like to give it a 9.5/10 simply because the first episodes are usually lacking in various ways and this did not... It did not "stumble" in my opinion as many shows do, wasting the 'hour' trying to explain 100 things in too much detail - hey, there's more shows to delve into that junk, tell us a story and entertain us! This did. We DID get some background, we were introduced to an antagonist, shown the "X's" could work together and put differences aside (would NEVER work with me, I'd fire her out a torpedo tube, if the Orville had one or accident decompress the shuttle bay, or tell her to dust an airlock and WHOOPSIE, 'See ya!') But, works for the show! All in all, it was good enough that it reduced my desire for the "eventual" release of the real SciFi show, this is based off of, that is also coming out this month, supposedly? I honestly do not know if describing the working together of the X's is a spoiler or telling of the antagonist being in 1st episode can be considered a spoiler, so marking this as including one, as I was hit with an infraction (that caused a flame war with others against the MOD) on another site when I posted an example - nothing even in the movie - of how bad the scenes were, since I do not write reviews very often and do not want on a blacklist. Thanks.