Some of the storylines are first rate, but some fall flat. Here The Orville gets a ‘B’ grade from me. When evaluating a series, the writing and the stories are the most important criteria. I’m not sure it’s been a good decision make The Orville a more series drama as time has gone on. There is also an emphasis on combining comedy with drama – although the comedic elements are certainly more subdued in season 3. Sometimes this made for great television (e.g., ST: Deep Space Nine) but sometimes things got so dark that viewers wondered if Star Trek had morphed into a series about dystopia rather than utopia. Once Roddenberry died in the early 1990s, Star Trek abandoned those principles and got dark and gritty.
In the original Star Trek series, Roddenberry cultivated an optimism about the future, a utopic vision of a society in which there is no longer any hunger, poverty, and conflict. What exactly is that “spirit”? For one thing, there is a general “lightness of being”.
But The Orville does a better job of capturing the spirit of Star Trek than pretty much every Star Trek series since the original series – with the possible exception of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
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