Season 1 — The Orville -

Critics were initially lukewarm, but fans praised the show for capturing the spirit of Star Trek: The Next Generation better than contemporary reboots.

The premise of The Orville - Season 1 is deceptively simple. The year is 2419. Captain Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) is a once-promising officer whose career stalled after he walked in on his wife, Commander Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki), having sex with a blue alien. Humiliated and broken, he is given a last-chance assignment: command of the middle-tier exploratory vessel, the U.S.S. Orville . The Orville - Season 1

7.5/10 – “A clumsy but loving valentine to classic Star Trek, with jokes.” Critics were initially lukewarm, but fans praised the

Essential for: Star Trek: The Next Generation fans, social satire lovers, and anyone who thinks sci-fi can be optimistic. Skip if: You require hard sci-fi realism, or cannot stand jokes about alien hat size. Captain Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) is a once-promising

Balances slapstick humor with high-stakes space battles and moral dilemmas.