If the Stars Should Appear

People keep acting as though this is Star Trek. While there are similarities in the mission and the crew, it really is its own show. And that isn't always good. Nevertheless, this episode was a good deal of fun. It reprises a place where the denizens are in an artificial environment, being ruled by a religious zealot. Very common theme for the original ST. The people have bought into this guy and he can maneuver them into killing "transgressors" (those that disagree with him). Still, this is pretty good. Two things are missing from this show. No transporter. And, obviously, no prime directive.

Perhaps Asimov's most famous short story, "Nightfall" quotes from the same Ralph Waldo Emerson poem about a society that sees the stars only once every thousand years. This episode involves a biosphere within an enormous spaceship that's been adrift for a thousand years and the people living there are clueless that they are even on a ship until the Orville crew open the "walls" that form the artificial sky in the biodome and the stars shine through. Also reminiscent of Robert Heinein's "Orphans of the Sky" (1941) also involving a ship so long adrift that the memory of being within a ship moving through space has been lost.

I am really surprised by this show. This episode was a masterpiece (even though it seemed to be a little bit rushed) it is more in the spirit of the next generation then the actual Star Trek Discovery Series itself. And sooooo hilariously funny... incredible... I love this show!

This is not rooted in Star Trek, this is taken from probably the best sci-fi short story of all time: Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. It is not even close storywise but it has the same makeup. The short poem by Emerson is from the book too.

Oh my god in every second of this episode i feel like i'm seeing the faith of iran i hope someday someone like captain come and rescue us :( by the way it was awesome episode