Third parties and articles
Several months ago, the community had a discussion about whether or not we should retain a dedicated page for the Quantum Drive podcast. From that discussion came about a "factors test" to determine whether a third party met was notable and relevant enough to have their own page. The two factors are:
- (1) The degree of dedication to covering content on The Orville. E.g., a general audience magazine like Entertainment Weekly has little dedication to covering the show, even though it has covered The Orville in the past, while the Planetary Union Network is exclusively dedicated to the show.
- (2) The nature of the content provided by the podcast. Reviews of episodes or general discussion has little noteworthy content. Breaking and exclusive news …
Sci-fi and Star Trek work in progress
Commentators have compared The Orville with other science fiction project since at least July 2017.
Ref: "The Orville Producers Interview (Comic Con)". Showbiz Junkies. July 28, 2017.
The show's liberal mix of comedy with drama sometimes confused reviewers who wondered if the show was an homage to previous science fiction or a parody.The executive producers have distanced the show from one particular franchise, citing not only Star Trek but Lost in Space;
Ref: The Orville Fan Podcast w/ Bruce Broughton (07). Planetary Union Network. Oct. 30, 2017.
The Twilight Zone;
Ref: Pascale, Anthony. "Interview: Brannon Braga On How ‘The Orville’ Pays Tribute To Star Trek While Setting A New Course". Trekmovie.com. Sept. 17, 2017.
and, while never explicitly …
Alternate timelines
What to do with alternate timeline versions of characters and objects like the USS Orville? There are two alternate timelines: the original timeline in Pria and now the "Kelly"-timeline in
My idea is a heading towards the bottom of a page titled Alternate timelines. This heading would not be necessary for people or objects only found in an alternate timeline. We should probably agree on titles for sub-headings of each alternate timeline.
Quantum bubble
This will undoubtedly get turned into an article in Season 2 This is just a filler page for info on it.
Andre Bormanis said it is "a little space-time bubble" where the laws of physics are not violated. Space and time are manipulated inside the bubble to achieve amazing results at the macroscopic level.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/12/the-orville-blends-science-fiction-and-science-fact-into-a-winning-mix/
Different
"One thing you won't see on The Orville is a transporter, Star Trek's iconic means of teleportation. According to Bormanis, the writers on the original Star Trek invented the transporter because they didn't have the special effects budget to show shuttle craft landing on an alien world every week—plus it kept the narrative pa…
Timeline (production)
The following is a production timeline of The Orville. At the moment, this blog post serves only as an aide to other editors but there is a non-zero chance it may grow into its own article one day.
- 1 Until late 2015: Very early development
- 1.1 2011
- 1.2 2015
- 2 2016: Early development
- 2.1 March
- 2.2 April
- 2.3 Undated order of events from April until June
- 2.4 June to October
- 2.5 July
- 2.6 August
- 2.7 October
- 2.8 After October
- 2.9 Late November
- 2.10 December
- 3 2017: Season 1
- 3.1 January
- 3.2 April
- 3.3 May
- 3.4 June
- 3.5 July
- 3.6 Late July or early August
- 3.7 August
- 3.8 September
- 3.9 October
- 3.10 November
- 3.11 December
- 4 2018: Season 2
- 4.1 January
- 4.2 February
- 4.3 March
- 4.4 May
- 4.5 Mid-summer until July
- 4.6 June
- 4.7 July
- 4.8 August
- 4.9 October
- 4.10 November
- 4.11 December
- 5 2019: Season 2 airs
- 5.1 January
- Seth MacFarlane was inter…