legaleagle53

I didn't know that, either, but now that you mention it, I do see the family resemblance!

Probably that he said "gave my brother and I detention." A compound object requires both pronouns to be in the Objective case.

And Ug-LY!

That's not enough of a reason to memory-wipe her without her knowledge or consent. That would in essence be doing the same thing to her her that her culture wanted to do to John.

Why would they have memory-wiped her? She'd already met them and been aboard the Orville before she came looking for them this time. And despite coming from a culture that is similar to 21st-Century America, she's not actually from the 21st Century. She's from 2422, so it's not as though she's learned anything that would alter the timeline if she remembered it after getting sent home.

If it's wrong, then I don't want to be right! 😉

The sandwich was sent into the future before the device was destroyed. The device's destruction is irrelevant because the sandwich bypassed the moment of the device's destruction altogether. That's how time travel works.

And bear in mind that the Federation as we have known it up until now is itself fairly young. It was only founded in 2160 or thereabouts, and we've only seen glimpses of its later development in the 23rd and 24th centuries. "The Orville" is set in 2422, only about a quarter of a century after "Picard" in the Star Trek universe. So really, it's at about the same level of political maturity as the Federation. We simply don't yet know how recently it was founded, but my best guess is that it wouldn't be that much younger than the Federation, relatively speaking. The only major technological distinction is that the Union doesn't have transporter technology (yet).

Whoopi Goldberg always credited Nichelle with inspiring her as a girl to use her talents to the fullest. As she said, Uhura was smart and beautiful and proof that powerful black women would make it into the future.

She was an icon and a role model for generations of women and minorities. Hailing frequencies open, Lt. Uhura. Rest in Power!

Technically, it should be "I was graduated from college." The passive voice is the preferred usage, but I haven't seen or heard it used in decades. It's a case of a deponent verb (passive in form but active in meaning) having made the full transition to a transitive verb in the active voice.

And Bortus deliberately fried his brain. I'd be surprised if Torture Moclan even remembers his OWN name now, much less that of the mole.

Ninety minutes? The time flew by for me! A fantastic episode -- and yes, it was so satisfying to see the male Moclans finally get called out for their hypocritical bullcrap and kicked out of the Union once it had been irrefutably demonstrated that they had finally gone too far. I seriously hope they get their asses kicked by the Kaylons at some point as the penalty for their hubris!

I wondered how they were taking the news. Evidently, "not well" is an understatement!

Wow, I love that series. The best one was the original book, but the entire world series is fantastic with its detailed worldbuilding.