“The Orville: New Horizons” deserves a renewal…

*****QUANTUM-DRIVE SPOILERS!***** Charting a Course. Writer/producer/star Seth MacFarlane’s “The Orville,” which debuted on the Fox TV network in September of 2017, had a longer than expected hiatus between its second and third seasons, due to the chaos caused by the global COVID pandemic. When the series finally returned in June of 2022, it left Fox…

The Orville: New Horizons, S3.10: “Future Unknown” wraps things up in a bow…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** With its renewal on the bubble, “The Orville: New Horizons” has just wrapped its third and possibly final season. So, how does “The Orville” conclude? With a cliffhanger space battle? A deadly disease that threatens to wipe out the ship’s crew? The Planetary Union in peril? Thankfully, none of the above. Series creator/producer/writer…

The Orville: New Horizons, S3.6; “Twice in a Lifetime” takes a voyage home…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** “Lasting Impressions.” The second season of The Orville featured the episode “Lasting Impressions”, a variation on Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Booby Trap,” which saw Geordi La Forge fall in love with a holographic representation of one of the Enterprise-D’s designers, Dr. Leah Brahms. Things got a little ‘icky’ when the real Brahms…