The Orville/Timeline/Alternate timelines

Isaac's calculations to use a quantum accelerator to send a person back in time. (The Road Not Taken timeline.)

This article presents alternate timelines of events on The Orville.

Pria timeline

Strictly speaking, the timeline explored in the episode Pria is not an alternate chain of events, but the original timeline. In the original timeline, the USS Orville was destroyed by an undetectable dark matter storm. That version of events was forever altered when the time travelling antiquities thief Pria Lavesque unsuccessfully attempted to bring the Orville to the 29th century. Instead, the Orville survived the storm and the original timeline was erased.

Late 2419

• The Orville is caught in a dark matter storm and lost.
  • Deaths of Ed Mercer, Kelly Grayson, Bortus, Alara Kitan, Claire Finn, Steve Newton, Gordon Malloy, John LaMarr, Isaac, Yaphit, Klyden, Topa, Marcus and Ty Finn, and roughly 300 others.
    • Untitled character deaths: Alien Bartender (Mess Hall bartender), Crewman #1 (Shuttle Bay officer)

29th century

• Pria Lavesque lives in this century.
  • This implies that despite the Kaylon's hostility toward biological life, in this timeline, either the Kaylon did not declare war against organic lifeforms or at least some humans survived until the 29th century.
• Benzians purchase antiquities from the Milky Way galaxy.

The Road Not Taken timeline

This timeline is created when young Kelly Grayson decides not to go on a second date with Ed in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Road Not Taken.

2414

• Kelly decides not to go out with Ed for a second date.

2415-2419

• Ed becomes Commanding Officer of the Epsilon Eridani outpost.
• Kelly rises in rank to become at least Lieutenant Commander.

2419

September

• Several personnel changes to the USS Orville:
  • The captain of the Orville retires, Griffith is made the ship's new captain instead of Ed.
  • The first officer and helmsman transfer off the ship, an unnamed first officer and an unnamed helmsman fill these positions instead of Kelly and Gordon Malloy.
  • A vacancy for Chief Medical Officer is filled by an unnamed doctor instead of Claire Finn.
  • The Kaylon emissary Isaac joins as a Science and Engineering officer.
• Led by Captain Griffith, the Orville successfully prevents the Krill from stealing the quantum accelerator from Epsilon 2.

October

• Klyden and Bortus have a daughter whose sex is then surgically altered to male. The child is given the name Topa.

Late 2419

• The Orville does not encounter a fatal dark matter storm, which would have destroyed the ship and its crew.

2420

September

• Chief of Security Alara Kitan begins to weaken in strength but stays on the Orville, choosing to undergo gravity treatments instead of returning to Xelaya.
  • Without Alara's departure, Lieutenant Tharl never joins the Orville.
  • However, Lieutenant Talla Keyali does join the Orville, but it is unknown in what capacity.

Late 2420

• Without Claire aboard the Orville, she never begins a relationship with Isaac.

2421

January-February

• Isaac spontaneously deactivates, prompting the Orville to return to Kaylon 1.
  • The Kaylon disassemble Isaac.
• The Kaylon, not including Isaac, seize the Orville.
  • The Kaylon attack and destroy Earth and its moon during the Battle of Earth.
    • Captain Griffith and his or her first officer die, Bortus becomes acting captain.
    • The Orville, while not destroyed, evacuates its crew crashes into the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Many crew members evacuate to safety, including Alara, John LaMarr, Klyden, Topa, and Yaphit.
      • Klyden and Topa flee to Moclus.
    • Bortus remains on the ship under the ocean where he will survive on minimal ship power for many months.

March-September

• The Kaylon destroy or kill "half the known galaxy" in their ensuing genocide of all biological life.
  • Kaylon destroy Moclus.
    • Klyden and Topa die.
  • Notably, the Kaylon decide not to attack the extremely advanced Calivon species, "probably because it's close to an even match."

• Remnants of the Union form a Resistance, though the Kaylon destroy most of it.
  • After the Kaylon destroy most of the Resistance, Alara Kitan takes a group of survivors to a secret base.
• Ed and Gordon begin surviving by scavenging supplies by shuttle.
• Kelly seeks out John, Claire, Talla Keyali, and Ty and Marcus Finn. The team steal a freighter and repurpose it as a scavenger ship.
  • Later, they recruit Ed and Gordon to restore the original timeline.

September-December

• Yaphit loses a piece of body containing his memory during a fight with Kaylon.
• One week later, some time between six and nine months after the Battle of Earth, Kelly and her team find Ed and Gordon.
• Kaylon find and destroy Alara's Resistance base.
  • Deaths or imprisonment of Alara, Yaphit, and many Resistance fighters.

November-December

• Kelly and her team recover the USS Orville from the bottom of the Mariana Trench and rescue Bortus.
• John LaMarr reactivates Isaac in a disembodied Kaylon head.
• Claire Finn is sent back in time and restores the original timeline. Meanwhile, a Kaylon attack destroys the Orville, killing all hands, when its quantum drive overloads.