The Orville Episode 5 - Time Travel and Bullshit

I make two mistakes here. (Well, three if you count trying to record over a really bad connection without a script.) First, I got Charlize Theron mixed up with Tricia Helfer; and second, you can find a moral in the episode, in the contrast between Pria's "don't apologize" platitude and Kelly forcing Ed to apologize. 

"Time Travel and Bullshit" was the name of a peer-review science journal VanVelding and Derek joke about in their TNG podcast. The Orville's solution to time travel paradoxes is growing on me.

Star Trek scripts sometimes lived or died on the performance of their guest actors. Despite questionable temporal mechanics, the "Pria" script succeeds where "If the Stars Should Appear" stumbles, and "The Orville" gets good guests.

Available in podcast form at anchor.fm.