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Should we be afraid of scavengers? Gordon freaks out that “they’re gonna cut off our skin and wear it like a suit!” Thus, we borrow the reputation of Firefly‘s fearsome Reavers for a little anxiety – but only for a moment, since as soon as the shuttle is tractor beamed into the scavengers’ landing bay, we discover that these scavengers are Dr. While Ed and Gordon use the synthesizer to make a Twinkie, their shuttle is suddenly intercepted by a cool-looking, large scavenger ship that is a cross between Stargate: Atlantis‘ Daedalus and a certain beat-up Star Wars light freighter of some renown. Gordon evades the Kaylon in an ice moon canyon Return of the Kelly I felt guilty not telling them that I know a guy who can do all that with a snap of his fingers… But in this timeline, that victory over the Kaylon never came, and the Kaylon have wiped out half the known galaxy in the time since. We discover that it’s been nine months since the Kaylon assault against biological lifeforms began, the assault that our Ed and our crew were able to thwart at great cost in the two-part “Identity” story earlier in the season. Escaping, the shuttle engages its quantum drive, and there’s a nice shot looking aft, back down the shuttle’s flight path, which was something cool and unique. It’s done well, the visuals are beautiful, but every maneuver is something we’ve seen before, many times. My 12-year-old daughter’s comment: “Moral of the story, never turn down a request for a second date!”Īs the shuttle makes for space, a Kaylon ship picks up their trail and chases them through the cliffs and caverns of a nearby ice moon in a thrilling sequence evocative of Firefox, The Empire Strikes Back, Firefly, and eighty other sci-fi stories. It turns out this is not the Ed and Gordon we have come to know and love in two seasons of The Orville rather, these are a version of those characters created by a divergent timeline, spawned at the end of last week’s episode when Young Kelly turned down Young Ed’s request for a second date. Gordon and Ed flee the Kaylon The Kaylon Strike Back “No such thing as safe anymore,” Ed replies, and we cut to the same shortened opening titles as last week’s episode. “I thought we’d be safe here, least for a while,” says Gordon, in contradiction to the furtive, hurried way he was acting before the arrival of the Kaylon. The men dodge into a battle-scarred Union shuttle and reveal themselves as Gordon Malloy and Ed Mercer, both looking scruffy as nerf-herders and considerably worse for wear. Unexpectedly, their heads detach from their bodies and start flying on their own, firing with stormtrooper-quality accuracy. Suddenly, they are attacked by a small Kaylon ship, which lands and disgorges three Kaylon, whose head cannons pop out and start firing. They are there to steal supplies, primarily a food synthesizer.
The episode opens with two masked men trudging across a frozen, snowy landscape identified as Sarin IV to break into an abandoned Union Listening Post.
“The Road Not Taken” succeeds enough in this regard to make it worth watching, but it certainly feels as though it is mostly walking roads that have been taken so many times before. There are only new ways of making them felt,” and I would say that it’s the responsibility of storytellers to make old ideas felt in new ways. Caribbean-American poet Audre Lorde once said, “There are no new ideas. But part of what makes a story interesting is the novelty brought by the creators of that story. The Orville does not start with a promise to seek out new life and new civilizations, nor does it promise to boldly go where no one has gone before, so perhaps it’s unfair to hold them to that concept. Penny Johnson Jerald, Adrianne Palicki, Seth MacFarlane, and J.
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