The Orville 1.12

Mad Idolatry

The Orville finds a planet that appears out of nowehere. Commander Grayson leads a team down to the planet's surface. She has a look around, by herself, and accidentally leaves an impression on the planet. The away team returns to the Orville. The planet disappears. It reappears 11 days later but hundreds of years have passed on the planet's surface and the people there remember Kelly as a god-like being.

Ed and Kelly, before they discover what her interference has created, try rekindling their relationship. They have a few drinks together the night before the planet appears for the first time. They have a date before the planet reappears, for the first time. Everything seem to be going great but Kelly has trouble dealing with what people on the planet's surface are doing in her name. That ultimately leads her to reconsider giving her romantic relationship with Ed another try.

The Orville 1.11

New Dimensions

Commander Grayson recommends that Lieutenant LaMarr be considered for promotion when the Engineering Chief gets transferred off of the Orville. Yaphit is next in line for that job which creates some friction between himself and LaMarr. 

Captain Mercer finds out that Commander Grayson was partly responsible for him getting command of the Orville. He doesn't take it well and is resentful of what she did for him.

The Orville encounters an anomaly in space that leads to two-dimensional space. They retreat to the 2-D space when they detect that a Krill ship is approaching. The 2-D space would crush them but Lt. LaMarr comes up with a scheme to protect them.

The episode ends with Lieutenant LaMarr getting promoted to Lieutenant Commander and becoming Chief Engineer.

The Orville 1.10

Firestorm

The Orville passes through some astro-turbulence. Engineering is badly hit and a crew member gets caught under a piece of the wall that comes down on him. Alara rushes to Engineering to try and help when no one else can lift the debris under the trapped crew member. She freezes and more stuff falls on him and he dies. Alara blames herself.

Alara talks to Captain Mercer and tries to resign. He won't accept her resignation. Things start to get a little strange after that. She sees a clown, big spiders, a giant alien, Dr. Finn restrains Alara and tries to operate on her. 

The Orville 1.09

Cupid's Dagger

Two aliens races, the Bruidians and the Navarians, are in dispute over the ownership of the planet Lopovius. They agree to let an archaeologist help them to settle the matter. The archaeologist is Darulio, the same Darulio that Ed caught Kelly sleeping with before they got divorced. Kelly quickly warms to Darulio and, before she knows it, she is back in bed with him. Ed is incensed but it isn't long before he starts to warm to Darulio, so much so that he grows jealous of Kelly.

Dr. Finn gives in to Yaffat's advances and gets intimate with him. Gordon, Alara, and the others are puzzled as to what is going on with Captain Mercer and Commander Grayson. It takes them a little while to piece it all together. A war almost breaks out between the Navarians and the Bruidians because Mercer and Grayson are ignoring them so that they can spend time with Darulio.

The Orville 1.08

In the Fold

Dr. Claire Finn tries to take Marcus and Ty, her two sons, on a brief vacation in one of the shuttles. Isaac is piloting when the shuttle gets sucked through a spatial fold. The shuttle is damaged and they are forced to land on an inhabitable moon. Dr. Finn gets separated from the others during the landing when the shuttle breaks in two.

Isaac looks after Marcus and Ty, who quarrel frequently. Dr. Finn is found by a local who locks her up but also takes care of her. He explains that most of the people on the planet have turned feral after getting infected by a waterborne pathogen. 

Isaac, Marcus, and Ty go looking for Claire but they are forced to turn back when Ty gets sick after falling in a stream. Dr. Finn escapes from the man who was holding her. She finds her communicator and contacts Isaac. She finds the others but dozens of feral people start closing in on them. Isaac and Marcus hold them off while Claire tries to do something for Ty. The Orville shows up just as it looks like the Dr. Finn and the others are about to get overrun.

The Orville 1.07

Majority Rule

Commander Grayson, Doctor Finn, Security Chief Kitan, and Lieutenant LaMarr take a shuttle to Sargus 4. They are there to retrieve a couple of Planetary Union anthropologists. The team disguises themselves as locals but quickly run into trouble. LaMarr gets arrested for insulting a national hero. His fate is to be decided by popular vote.

Captain Mercer turns to the Planetary Union for permission to break LaMarr out but that request is denied even though it could result in John getting lobotomized. Commander Grayson stays near to LaMarr while Security Chief Kitan and Doctor Finn turn to a local for help. They take her to the Orville. She gives them some advice on how they could sway the voting.

The Orville 1.06

Krill

Captain Ed Mercer and Lieutenant Terry Molloy are tasked by Adniral Ozawa with an espionage mission. They fly a captured Krill shuttle into Krill territory. Their objective is to obtain a copy of in Anhkana, the Krill holy book. They are given devices that make them look Krill.

Mercer and Molloy make contact with a Krill warship. They claim to be the only survivors of another Krill warship. They are welcomed by the captain and invited to join a Krill worship ceremony.

Mercer and Molloy fool most of the Krill but Sazeron, the high priest, is suspicious of them. They sneak into the ship's place of worship at night. They start to take images of the pages of the Anhkana. They are about halfway done when they are forced to hide. Someone comes down to inspect the space of worship. The devices that make them look Krill start to malfunction.

Mercer and Molloy search the ship and find the power source that is interfering with their disguise devices. It is a neutron bomb that the Krill are planning to use on a peaceful world. Mercer and Molloy try to come up with a plan to stop the Krill's plan.

The Orville 1.05

Pria

The Orville rescues Pria Lavesque. Her ship is at the time stuck on a comet which getting dangerously close to a star. She is human and from Earth. She grew up in the same area as Captain Mercer. He likes her and gets annoyed when Commander Grayson suspects that there is something that Pria is hiding.

Commander Grayson talks Lieutenant Kitan into conducting a search of Captain Lavesque's quarters. They find an object which their scanners cannot penetrate but Pria returns before they can investigate further. They tell her that they were looking into a radiation leak and leave quickly.

Captain Mercer reprimands Grayson and Kitan for what they did. Grayson tries to plead their case but they get interrupted because the ship has encountered a dark matter storm. The crew of the Orville doesn't know how to respond but Pria does. Captain Mercer gives her permission to take the controls. She guides the ship out of the storm.

The Orville 1.04

If the Stars Should Appear

The Orville crosses paths with a much larger ship that is drifting in space. The Orville's sensors are unable to penetrate the hull of the ship to determine if there are any life forms aboard. Captain Mercer, Commander Grayson, Security Chief Kitan, Doctor Finn, and Science Officer Isaac take a shuttle and go investigate the big ship.

The away team finds a race of humanoid people living within the ship. The away team splits up Alara and Kelly head in one direction. They are accosted by two men who shoot Alara and take Kelly prisoner. The other three encounter a teenager who tells them about the world they have found. The people of the large ship don't realize that they are within a ship. They are ruled by a dictator named Hamelac who insists that their world was created by a being named Doral.

Mercer and the others find the wounded security chief and then go looking for Commander Grayson. They find her and use their superior technology to free her and deal with Hamelac and his goons.

The Orville 1.03

About a Girl

Bortus and Klyden, his mate, want their child to be given a sex change. Machlans are usually born male. A female is only born once every 75 years. Bortus asks Dr. Finn to perform the operation but she refuses. Captain Mercer backs up the Doctor.

Vortus reaches out to his people and they agree to send a ship to pickup the baby and perform the operation. Captain Mercer reprimands Bortus for his actions. Lieutenant Katan tries to convince Bortus of the error of his ways in the boxing ring. She doesn't get through to him.

Gordon and Lamarr get Bortus to watch a movie with them, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Bortus changes his mind. Bortus tries to convince Kytden that submitting their daughter to a sex change is the wrong thing to do. Klyden is not convinced and reveals that he was born a female, something that Bortus did not know.

The Orville 1.02

Command Performance

The Orville receives a distress call from a nearby transport shop and goes to investigate. Captain Mercer's parents are aboard the transport. Captain Mercer and Commander Grayson take the shuttle over to the transport ship. He leaves Lieutenant Kitan in charge of the Orville. Lieutenant Commander Bortus is on a leave of absence and is busy sitting on an egg that contains his offspring.

The transport ship turns out to be a hologram. Mercer and Grayson are abducted by Calivon and put in a zoo. At first they get a long but before long they are getting each other's nerves.

Lieutenant Kitan has trouble adjusting to being in charge of the Orville. She tries turning to Lieutenant Commander Bortus but he cannot leave his egg. Doctor Finn mentors Lieutenant Kitan.

The Orville 1.01

Old Wounds

Captain Ed Mercer assumes command of the Orville, an exploratory starship, one year after his marriage ended. The ship's first mission takes Captain Mercer and his crew to the science center on Eplison Two. They pick up Commadner Kelly Grayson, the Orville's new executive officer and Ed's ex-wife, on the way to Eplison Two. Ed tries arguing with Admiral Halsey about the decision to make Commander Grayson the ship's XO but it gets him nowhere.

The Orville arrives as Epsilon Two. Captain Mercer, Commander Grayson, Security Chief Alara Kitan, and Chief Medical Officer Claire Finn travel to the surface of the planet by shuttle. Dr. Aronoff shows them around. The tour incudes a demonstration of a new piece of technology that rapidly ages things. Dr. Aronoff is worried about the Krill, a warlike race of aliens, who have threatened Epsilon Two in the past.