Its advertising - people are told there are fewer - they watch it to not watch commercials - there are MORE commercials.
Almost certainly, although it’s reversing the usual naval custom of giving a ship the *last *name of the person being honored.
Capt. Mercer has a model of the 1903 Wright Flyer on his desk, and this famous image on his office bulkhead: Wright Flyer - Wikipedia
They do have a shorter than usual commercial break after the intro, I think, which may be what they’re talking about.
Each episode this season is 48 minutes without commercials instead of the typical 42-44 for 1-hour shows.
I watch it on Hulu. Zero commercials!
I wonder if the Orville crew will encounter a [del]brother[/del] sister ship of the same class named Wilbur? 
Thanks.
I’m a couple weeks late viewing and following this thread because I started on the birthday cake ep and it was sizing up to be more of Seth preaching at me and I don’t need that. He preaches more than Roddenberry.
I like the preaching of both of them.
One presumes there is a USS Wilbur.
Yeah, Orville is named after Orville Wright. Other ships mentioned in passing are also named after aviation pioneers; they’ve mentioned USS Bleriot and a USS Chanute, both named after men instrumental in the rise of flight.
Are you sure it’s not named after this Orville, another “pioneer of flight”?
(I kid, I kid…)
No, that’s the namesake of USS The Duck.
Why wouldn’t it be called the “USS Orville Wright” then? I mean, I know ships get nicknames, e.g. USS Missouri- “the Mighty Mo” or USS Eisenhower - “the Ike”
So it would make sense that it would be formally the “USS Orville Wright”, and the USS Wright for a bit shorter version, and “The Orville” for the nickname.
But they ought to show that- as it stands, the show would have us think it’s named after someone with the surname Orville.
Exactly. I assume it’s just a (not very funny) joke.
And yet those ships are not named, for consistency’s sake, the USS *Louis *and the USS Octave.
Because somewhere in the fleet there is a ship named for Wilbur Wright and to avoid having two ships called “the Wright” they instead named one Wilbur and the other Orville.
I’d guess that the US Navy would probably name it something silly like “USS Wright Brothers” in the modern age. USS Wright (CVL-49) was in fact named for both Wright brothers in 1944.
USS *Roosevelt *is named after both FDR and Eleanor: USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) - Wikipedia
And the USS* The Sullivans* is named after five brothers: USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) - Wikipedia
They wanted to call it the USS Wright - but couldn’t have this captain and this crew be in command of the Wright - as that would just be wrong.
I was actually less than serious about Orville Reddenbacher. Considerably less than serious.
Two Wrights don’t make it wrong.