It was *funny *because it was unexpected. :o
True.
It just seemed odd that both Ed and Alara raised the same point, in nearly the same way. Maybe it’s a reference to some future pop-culture about a hilarious mining company that can’t keep track of its staff.
That’s the kind of turn-of-phrase that a real person might end up using habitually.
It’s a “running gag” like the “Ow, my spleen” line in Brewster Rocket. They should play against it soon.
Just wait until they reference that lame 21st Century thing about throwing shit in a quarry 
Or a list of three things that ends with Hi Opal
Wait, my shuttle craft is full of eels !
And you know that Mocklan is related to Hal Briston somehow.
It was also a whole leg, while if you remember, Malloy’s leg had only been amputated from the knee down.
I expect one of these days there will be some pickle-shaped aliens behind the door.
The first Orville blooper.
I agree. Mining companies had better be clear on who has the rights to what minerals, what’s the value of those minerals, etc. Otherwise, there will be a lot of disputes which could lead to lawsuits or even war.
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Oh, one more thing: during this episode, the resemblance of the various sets to ST:TNG sets really struck me, particularly the Engineering set, and the “guest suite” (the resemblance has been there since the beginning, I’m sure, but for some reason it just hit me more during this episode.
Tremendous amounts of wasted space, all of which must be constantly monitored and maintained. A tremendous amount of wasted energy.
Just like Picard’s Enterprise (and Kirk’s too - think about how wide the corridors are in the NCC-1701 (no bloody A)).
If you’re going to live on that ship for years, you literally need the space for basic sanity purposes. There’s a psychological cost to small spaces and dense crowding.
usually said by lois or brian …
That’s what periodic shore leave and recreational areas like holodecks are for.
Nowadays, no crew spends “years” confined inside submarines or even aircraft carriers, do they? In a truly spacefaring civilization, crew rest and rotation would be programmed from the start.
A true space-faring civilization would take that into account.
There is but overall Navies have handled it.
The Theodore Roosevelt, CVN-71 set the modern record at 159 days at sea. That shattered the record my own ship (CV-61) had set of 121 days at sea back on our 1987 West Pac.
So while not years, why would the Orville need to be out for years? On Carriers the crew is packed tight and even the officers are packed fairly tight with the exception of the Captain, XO and Admiral (when on board). There are no spacious guest quarters, that is for sure.
… And divide each known area into sectors that can be traversed and explored in reasonable lengths of time. In Star Trek, only around ten percent of the Galaxy was known. Have they given a figure like this in The Orville?
With energy from anti-matter and replicators that cab make just about anything, there is no reason to make ships as large as one desires.
You could make a case for wide corridors; they might be needed in ship-abandoning emergencies, f’rinstance. (In reality, they were needed for the camera dolly, but that’s neither here nor there.) But the crew’s quarters on TNG? Freakin’ $5000-a-night hotel suites is what they were. And all those “guest quarters” that must have been empty most of the time? It boggles the mind! (Of course, luxuries like these were “needed” because there were “families” on board, with all the resource-consuming, space-wasting nonessential personnel that implies. :smack: )
TOS was at least realistic in showing much smaller and less opulent crew’s quarters. Not even the senior officers’ were that big, and (according to The Making of Star Trek) junior officers had to share their quarters with a roommate. (For some reason, this apparently wasn’t true for the only junior officers’ whose quarters we saw—Uhura’s, Rand’s, McGivers’…)