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Characters[]
Ed[]
Ed wears cologne and plucks his eyebrows and "accidentally" touches hands when he wants to woo someone. He attempted this on Kelly in their relationship and later on Darulio. Kelly calls it his "stupid moves."[Cupid's Dagger 1] At one point Ed had stomach trouble.[Command Performance 1] Ed and Kelly have played Monopoly together and Ed is always the car.[About a Girl 1] Military time screws him up. He admits he "lost perspective" during his marriage.[If the Stars Should Appear 1] He admits that he is a terrible cook. He has a letter of reprimand in his file placed by Ozawa for editing a report to spare Kelly from punishment.[Mad Idolatry 1]
Kelly[]
She says she bailed on her own crewmates at her old posting to come to the Orville.[Old Wounds 1] Kelly took a year of interplanetary law at Union Point.[About a Girl 2] Alara says she has combination skin.[If the Stars Should Appear 2]
Alara[]
Alara is in charge of communications.[Krill 1] When Ed met her, he "was really skeptical" and thought she was too young, inexperienced, and unable to run a whole department or even security.[Firestorm 1]
Isaac[]
He holds "Earth files" inside himself.[Into the Fold 1]
Other mentioned characters[]
- Dalen, the son of a multiphasic planet woman. She disciplines Dalen for running off and says Kelly will get him if he disobeys.[Mad Idolatry 2]
Alien species and worlds[]
What is the difference between a number like Kaylon 1 and Prime like Arboreus Prime? Probably simple alternatives.[Into the Fold 2]
Ozawa: "Generally, when a civilization becomes more technologically advanced, their adherence to religion declines."[Krill 2]
Arboreus Prime[]
Place with rides and fun. Some hotels are in the sky. There's a dock master that reported Claire's shuttle never arrived.[Into the Fold 3]
Cavellians[]
A civilization that grows a spiceroot favored by Navarians.[Cupid's Dagger 2]
Deneb 3[]
A planet that was to be visited for the weekend by the Calivon version of Ed's parents and the Petersons.[Command Performance 2]
Dorahlians[]
The followers of Dorahl fear the "Underland" and the forbidden ship exterior is the "Beyond." Hamelac also refers to the Word of Dorahl being a message of truth and love and to a "gift of Dorahl to the Universe" that, if denied, deserves punishment.[If the Stars Should Appear 3] Reformers have distributed "hateful material" in the capital.[If the Stars Should Appear 4] The police are called Enforcers.[If the Stars Should Appear 5]
Earth[]
Prisons are still divided by sex.[Mad Idolatry 3]
Elnath 4[]
A deadly asteroid would have collided in one month, 17 days, but the Orville breaks it up with a "cutting beam."[About a Girl 3]
Epsilon 2[]
Epsilon 2 is 19 hours, 51 minutes from Earth.[Old Wounds 2]
The Epsilon Science Station has at least three shuttle bays.(Man: Prepare for Orville shuttle arrival, Bay 3.)[Old Wounds 3] The Station has an old loading conduit across from its atrium.[Old Wounds 4]\
Gelatine[]
Fluid loss is a medical problem.[About a Girl 4] The species can experience diziness, fatigue, or a loss of sensation in the outer membrane.[If the Stars Should Appear 6]
Habitable moon[]
Polloxus killed millions of inhabitants.[Into the Fold 4]
Krill (planet and species)[]
A world of "perpetual night," shrouded in cloud cover that obscures 96 percent of sunlight from the planet's surface.[Krill 3]
The Krill have scanners (also called bioscanners), which are fooled by the Union's holographic generators.[Krill 4]
Moclus and Moclans[]
It is customary for a Moclan to quote a pithy passage to someone from another planet, and they respond with a quote in kind.[About a Girl 5] Fifteen pounds, two ounces is about average for a newborn.[About a Girl 6] Topa needed shots from the doctor.[Cupid's Dagger 3] The planet has a central medical facility.[About a Girl 7]
Sargus 4[]
The population carries "mobile devices" that cast votes and take video.[Majority Rule 1]
Two-dimensional species[]
An alien species that lives in two-dimensional space. The Orville, as three-dimensional beings, is able to observe but not interact with the species. They are scanned for Union Central, and Ed believes Union physicists will write papers about them for decades. Isaac says their "modes of existence are incompatible."[New Dimensions 1]
Unknown species[]
According to Pria, there is a planet on the frontier where business negotiations begin by showing their genitals. (Pria: Oh, you meet some pretty wild cultures out there. Last year, I was trying to secure mining rights on a planet where it's customary at the start of any business negotiation for all parties to show their genitals. Gordon: What's the point of that? Pria: It's a show of good faith, a promise that all negotiators will be forthright and free from deception.)[Pria 1]
There is a dish called "orange floofers" served at Ed's cocktail hour.[Pria 2] There is a dish called "prawgus cake" served at Steve's farewell party, it's also what Bortus ate that contained a piece of Yaphit.[New Dimensions 2]
USS Orville[]
During a plasma storm, the Orville makes a plasma distribution map. One was transferred to another on the bridge. (Newton: "Sir, we've lost both quantum phase inducers in the upper engine! I need to divert all available power - to the containment regulators now!") The ship can be taken to "yellow alert" in times of danger.[Firestorm 2]
Conference Room[]
Alara asks Isaac to escort the Navarian and Bruidian ambassadors to this room.[Cupid's Dagger 4]
Decks[]
Deck C has housing quarters.[Pria 3][Cupid's Dagger 5] Deck G has housing quarters.[Cupid's Dagger 6]
- Deck C and G have housing quarters on opposite ends of the ship.[Cupid's Dagger 7]
- The clown was spotted on Deck C, Section 4.[Firestorm 3]
Deflectors[]
Deflectors are stored inside conduits accessible from engineering.[Cupid's Dagger 8]
Education[]
Ty and Marcus's school was let out early because of the spatial anomaly.[New Dimensions 3]
Quarters[]
Deck C with at least six units.[Pria 4][Cupid's Dagger 9]
Occupants[]
- Deck C
- Navarian or Bruidian ambassador (~January, 2420)[Cupid's Dagger 10]
- Unit 3
- Unit 6
- Deck G
- Navarian or Bruidian ambassador (~January, 2420)[Cupid's Dagger 11]
Security[]
Scanners take security logs. Security logs consist of recorded video. They are indexed by time.[Firestorm 4]
Sick Bay[]
Nurse Park made a "souped-up" version of Darulio's pheremones with the medical computer.[Cupid's Dagger 12] Doctors still take the Hippocratic Oath.[About a Girl 8]
Scanners[]
The Orville's scanners have a range that is within two-minutes' of quantum drive.[Krill 5] Internal scanners monitor the ship for security. External scanners keep logs as well that records things like the frequency window of plasma charges.[Firestorm 5] An internal scan can be conducted by personnel, as what happened after the first run-in with the spatial anomaly.[New Dimensions 4] Scanning data obtained through comscanners can be processed through the ship's central computer.[New Dimensions 5] When Ed wants to know everything about the multiphasic planet, he orders Bortus to open "multispectral scans."[Mad Idolatry 4] Someone says that scans have picked up a temporal inconsistency.[Mad Idolatry 5]
Science Lab[]
There are lab technicians standing by.[Cupid's Dagger 13]
Shuttle Bay[]
The place consists of the bay itself, cargo hold, and the upper level. Bortus also says he crushed an alligator in the "cargo bay," which may be the cargo hold.[Firestorm 6]
Viewer[]
The main screen of the Orville is the "viewer."[New Dimensions 6] Its illumination can be controlled.[Mad Idolatry 6]
Planetary Union[]
The Union uses military time. ("We'll take a shuttle up at 0900.")[Old Wounds 5] ("Oh, it's almost 1800 hours.")[Pria 9] To determine whether officers are good fits, they run a staff profile compatability program.[Old Wounds 6] Fleet admirals do not like to see a captain without a first officer for too long.[Old Wounds 7] Admiralty wanted a full report on the Epsilon 2 "stuff."[Old Wounds 8] There are some member cultures that circumcise their young.[About a Girl 9] Clearance may be given or denied for missions, such as extracting John from Sargus 4.[Majority Rule 2] Clearance must be received from admiralty to send a medical team to the habitable moon to help the sick.[Into the Fold 5] Security material may be classified.[Firestorm 7] Lieutenant Commanders may be called Commander for short. (Bortus is called that[Majority Rule 3] as is Steve Newton[New Dimensions 7].)
Communications[]
Messages sent can be coded for security.[Old Wounds 9] Messages between ships are labelled by priority, including "high priority."[Cupid's Dagger 14] Distress messages can be "priority one." Communications are begun by opening a hailing channel. Alara is in charge of communications.[Krill 6] The bridge crew speculates that Tom and Lewis's silence was due to a communications equipment malfunction.[Majority Rule 4]
Comscanners[]
Comscanners are able to read for life signs inside a separate building or transmit homing signals, but they are not able to penetrate the hull of the Dorahl bioship.[If the Stars Should Appear 7] They are affected by electromagnetic interference.[Krill 7] Isaac was able to determine that Ty ingested a water-borne toxin using the device.[Into the Fold 6] Comscanners contain enough power to be transferred to engineering to access its main logs. Transfer takes roughly four minutes.[Firestorm 8]
Dockyards[]
It takes roughly 15 minutes to travel from Earth to the Union Dockyards by shuttle. The dockyards have a tower which gives one the "green light" to leave, and the ship replies that they are ready to leave. The dockyards have a perimeter that must be cleared when leaving.[Old Wounds 10]
Holographic Emitter[]
The device operates on a default frequency; the frequency happens to be the same as the Krill prototype weapon. Ed and Gordon briefly planned to use the emitters to create a feedback loop and trigger the bomb, but that was ditched in favor of hacking the lighting system.[Krill 8]
Intelligence[]
Admiral Ozawa and Ed refer to "Union intelligence," an intelligence wing which believed that every Krill ship hold an Anhkana. Independently, Ozawa prepared an intelligence briefing for their mission.[Krill 9]
Medicine[]
Brain scans require high precision and the patient must remain very still.[Firestorm 9]
Memory can be wiped by a doctor.[Firestorm 10]
Regulations[]
Falsely diverting a starship on active duty is a serious infraction. (Kelly: Doctor, you want to tell us why you falsely diverted a starship on active duty? You know you could do time for that.)[Old Wounds 11] Ed refers to "Temporal Law."[Pria 10]
Union personnel may recuse themselves due to conflicts of interest. (Darulio: I just heard on the way over here it was gonna be you guys. If I'd have had more time, I would have recused myself.)[Cupid's Dagger 15] Grievances may be filed by a formal complaint.[Cupid's Dagger 16]
Lying to a medical officer can result in you "written up."[Firestorm 11]
Members hold security clearances.[Cupid's Dagger 17] Note that information may be classified as well.[Firestorm 12]
A captain gets "like, one free hour a week."[About a Girl 10]
Ed: "Union policy would've had you leave that kid to die just to avoid cultural contamination."[Mad Idolatry 7]
Personnel[]
Lieutenant Phillips stayed on the Orville in Deck C, Unit 3 prior to November, 2419. He kept a pet hamster.[Pria 11]
Planetary Union Central[]
Union Central maintains independent personnel files. ("I confirmed it with the Union Central database just to be sure.")[New Dimensions 8]
Stations[]
There are no space stations at the edge of frontier space where the Dorahl bioship was found. ("There are no space stations this far out.")[If the Stars Should Appear 8]
- Station 794. Where Kelly was picked up by the Orville. It is barely out of the way of a journey from Earth to Epsilon 2.[Old Wounds 12]
- Outpost 49. Roughly five days journey from the Gatria system. The Orville nearly stops for repairs in November 2419.[Pria 12]
- Outpost T85. Admiral Halsey recalls that Gordon drew a penis on its main viewing screen.[Old Wounds 13]
Translator[]
Claire refers to a translator, which she uses to communicate with others.[Into the Fold 7]
Union Point[]
Subjects include diplomacy,[Cupid's Dagger 18] interplanetary law,[About a Girl 11] and advanced engineering.[New Dimensions 9]
- Professor Fincher taught Kelly the subject of diplomacy.[Cupid's Dagger 19]
- Cadets take officer exams.[Cupid's Dagger 20]
Space craft[]
Communications[]
Communication frequencies must be isolated from other signals to communicate between ships. (Alara: Captain, the signal's coming from the surface of the comet. Ed: Isolate the frequency and patch me in.)[Pria 13] Ships use communication arrays. (Pria: I have some friends there, and I'm sure they'll be happy to refit your communications array)[Pria 14] Personnel files are sent over "comms."[Cupid's Dagger 21] Communications could not penetrate the hull of the Dorahl bioship.[If the Stars Should Appear 9]
Life support[]
At least some Union ships have life support systems. (Ed: How's your life support? Pria: It's functioning, but it's getting pretty hot in here.)[Pria 15]
Scanners[]
Scanners may be set at maximum.[Pria 16] They may scan for life signs on other ships[Command Performance 3] or whether the ship holds a breathable atmosphere.[If the Stars Should Appear 10] Scanners could not penetrate the hull of the Dorahl bioship.[If the Stars Should Appear 11]
The entire entwork of scanners on a ship is the scanning array.[Command Performance 4] Ships use forward scanners for the front exterior[Pria 17] and internal scanners for the interior.[Cupid's Dagger 22] Forward scanners are power-intensive.[Command Performance 5] Power may be diverted from the forward scanners to conduct long-range searches.[Command Performance 6]
Scanning can be conducted "full-range," though it's unclear what that means. External scans detected a quantum wake, but only after they passed through it.[New Dimensions 10]
Scanning history is retained in scanner logs.[Command Performance 7]
Shuttles have scanners too and they can detect dysonium deposits.[Into the Fold 8]
Bioscans are referred to which are cross-referenced against knowledge of the spatial anomaly.[New Dimensions 11]
Scanners initially detected the appearance of the multiphasic planet as a spatial anomaly but could not "make sense of it."[Mad Idolatry 8]
Shuttles[]
Shuttles come equipped with seat belts.[Old Wounds 14] Shuttles leave ion trails behind as they fly.[Into the Fold 9]
Shuttle Bay[]
A shuttle porting in the Shuttle Bay is called 'docking.'[Cupid's Dagger 23] When a shuttle arrives to dock, the Shuttle Bay reports the arrivee to Bridge.[Cupid's Dagger 24] Shuttles can be put on "hold" to keep them from docking.[Cupid's Dagger 25]
Tractor beam[]
The Orville's tractor beams was strong enough to extract Pria's ship, the Horizon, from the comet, but the ship was too embedded and it would tear the ship apart. ("The vessel is partially embedded in the surface of the comet. The tractor beam could compromise its hull integrity. What if someone pilots a shuttle to the surface?")[Pria 18]
Quantum drive[]
The quantum drive cannot be engaged too close to another object - the Orville had to clear that dockyard's perimeter before engaging quantum drive.[Old Wounds 15] The quantum drive uses quantum phase inducers that have containment regulators. The drive may be pushed "to the limit without breaking the [Orville] apart."[Firestorm 13]
Space[]
Spatial anomalies[]
"Gravity shears" may emanate from an uncharted spatial fold.[Into the Fold 10] The entrance to one of the two-dimensional spatial anomalies is coordinates 3-4-8, mark 9-1-4.[New Dimensions 12]
Season 1[]
Old Wounds[]
Ed and Gordon leave Earth by shuttle at 9:00 AM for the Orville and are nearly arrived at 9:15. (Ed: It's 9:15 in the morning.)
Ed and Kelly had not seen each other from their divorce until she is picked up from Station 794.
Bortus says two Krill shuttles land on Epsilon 2.
Command Performance[]
The holographic emitter requires enormous power and all nonessential systems were shut down.
Ed and Kelly were housed in Unit 484 of the zoo.
About a Girl[]
Claire says that Yaphit was in her office "three times this week." But the episode starts immediately after Command Performance, which means that Yaphit was in her office three times during the final week of Command Performance.
If the Stars Should Appear[]
Ed refers to "evacuation ships." Bortus transfers weapons control to Lieutenant LaMarr. So who had weapons control before? Kelly tells Ed that they are a thousand light years from Earth. This corresponds with Andre Bormanis's comments that the furthest the Orville travels from Earth in Season 1 is 1,000 ly.
Pria[]
The Horizon could withstand the star's gravity for seven minutes, 23 seconds. Once the rescue shutttle arrived, the team had two minutes to rescue Pria. That means the trip from the Orville to the Horizon took five minutes.
The Horizon held "merchandise" at the time of its destruction (presumably mining quarry).
Pria is not familiar with the phrases "blue chip" and "go to hell."
Krill[]
Gordon was chosen for the mission because he is the best pilot in the fleet.
Majority Rule[]
Ed asks Bortus to put pretzels and water in their Briefing Room for guests and Bortus says he will not fail Ed. As far as can be discerned, those snacks were never added.
Into the Fold[]
The shuttle halves landed four kilometers away from each other.
Cupid's Dagger[]
The Orville has lab technicians that were standing by to help Darulio in his work on the bithing bucket. Thirty-six hours elapse between Ed yelling at Darulio for sleeping with Kelly and Darulio's results that the bucket is from a common ancestor. The Bruidian warships seen in the near-battle was their entire fleet.
New Dimensions[]
The spatial anomaly is mapped so that other Union ships "don't get banged around."
Krill ships were 31 minutes away from the Orville at time of detection.
Mad Idolatry[]
The multiphasic planet is constantly scanned for 72 hours, after which a science vessel could be sent to relieve the Orville if they were "still in the dark" about the planet.
Orville scans of the planet's broadcast signals find nearly 800,000 mentions of the name Kelly.
Isaac refers to "the age of quantum drive."