If the Stars Should Appear

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

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.

So far, I like it. Some of the lines can be a bit lame, but then this is from the guy that gave us Family Guy so it comes with the territory. The last episode was a bit refreshing in how the plot unfolded and I am eagerly awaiting the next one. Good start though. My only real complaint is to cut out the dumb male sex jokes. It can still be funny and a bit odd without the bathroom humor.

Excellent episode rooted on Star Trek the original series with a bit of the Next Generation on it. Instant classic that presents important topics and Sci-Fi tropes to a new generation of watchers in a very entreating way. Bravo! to Seth and his team, still clapping episode three, I praise this one too.

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.