Ok while I do love the Orville and see it as the new Star trek I can't help but feel that the show is forcing all this to happen simply because they want to have a big battle in the season. I don't like how the writers ruin Issac character development like we seen him become more and more like a organic vs a machine because of everything he went through with the crew of the Orville and now the I'm supposed to have accept that Issac became evil and just following orders because he's a robot and it's his programming. The writers really didn't do a good job with this episode I'm sorry, if they wanted a battle scene why not let it be the krell and that new species we seen earlier in the season? This episode would've been alot better if the robots was also discussing a alliance with the krell, think about it what if the union wasn't the only ones that wanted their cooperation, and we got to see that in the show now not only do we worry about Issac now we have to worry about the robots joining forces with the krell giving them their technology in exchange for whatever robots would want. They could've also showed how the robots govern themselves, show a council of robots meeting both captain Mercer and the krell representative and they both have to make their case to the robots about their side being a better choice. Show arguing among the machines let some favor the union while others favor the krell while another group simply want isolation. This would've been a great explanation as to why the machines are having a hard time choosing, why they're taking so long. Lastly Issac should not have betrayed the Orville no matter what he should've choose his friends over the machines that would've not only kept him in character but also show how much Issac changed and grew that would've been a great episode. But instead we have a war that wasn't really explained that good going on now. Look sorry for the massive paragraph and even though I dislike this episode I'm still going to watch the next one, it's better then Star trek discover.
