Old Wounds
- Episode aired Sep 10, 2017
- TV-14
- 45m
Newly promoted Captain, Ed, is taken aback when his ex-wife is assigned as his First Officer.Newly promoted Captain, Ed, is taken aback when his ex-wife is assigned as his First Officer.Newly promoted Captain, Ed, is taken aback when his ex-wife is assigned as his First Officer.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlara Kitan was originally planned to have no eyebrows, so Halston Sage shaved her own off for the role. However the resulting look was received poorly, and for the remainder of the season she can be seen to be wearing false eyebrows.
- GoofsWhen Alara and the rest of the away team are running back toward the shuttle in front of the Epsilon Science Station, the two Krill shuttles are missing during the ensuing firefight. When the Orville shuttle takes off, the two Krill shuttles have reappeared in front of the Science Station.
- Quotes
Dr. Aronov: This is Janice Lee, one of our most brilliant young physicists.
Dr. Claire Finn: [shaking hands] Hello.
Janice Lee: Hi.
Dr. Aronov: Janice has been experimenting with temporal fields and has made... well, a breakthrough would be an understatement.
[Janice sets a banana on the table, then taps on her hand-held pad; an electric bubble covers the banana, and it rapidly rots]
Ed Mercer: So, it's an anti-banana ray?
Kelly Grayson: It's really interesting.
Ed Mercer: We need no longer fear the banana.
Kelly Grayson: Does it work on all fruit?
Ed Mercer: What about salads?
Dr. Aronov: Do you understand what happened to this banana? It's rotten because a month has passed.
Ed Mercer: Since we got here? Yeah, that's what it feels like.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek (1966)
There's a hopefulness about the future of humanity here which you don't get that much anymore. To be sure, darkness and grittiness have their place but it's nice to have a show like this that can present space travel with the excitement of a five-year-old child instead of filling it with the angst we already see in enough other shows. The CGI does a serviceable job, you can tell it doesn't have the budget of STD but it manages to do well despite that. A lot of visual details are done well, like the depiction of a futuristic Earth which it clearly revels in. The ships, the death-by-ageing and the lab on Epsilon 2 are all eye candy as well here. They don't look as realistic as what you see on higher-budget shows but that's made up for by the creativity.
One thing that really makes it tick is the relations between its characters, with sharp dialogue which is underlined by unsubtle but welcome humour. Sure, not all the jokes land. But it's hard to deny there's an upbeat vibe and a hopefulness that the future of humanity doesn't have to be all dark and gritty.
The plot itself is about what you'd expect from a first episode whose primary aim is to introduce you to the concept and the characters. It's interesting enough to keep your attention and has enough charming quirks (like the role the redwood seeds play) but it can easily be reduced to the 'crew protect powerful technology from bad people' trope. At one point there is also an escape scene that is pretty cheesy, and not in a charming way.
This consistently put a grin on my face in spite of its flaws. Looking forward to seeing the rest.
- TheDonaldofDoom
- Oct 7, 2019
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- Baxter Pharmaceutical - 1 Baxter Way, Thousand Oaks, California, USA(science station on Epsilon 2)
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- Runtime45 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD