The Orville

The Orville (2017)

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All the World Is Birthday Cake - S2-E5

Corrected entry: Everyone on the planet freaks out because two of the crewmembers have birthdays soon, marking them as "Gilliak." But no-one makes the connection that birthdays, dates, years, etc. will be entirely different on this planet than under Union dating.

Jon Sandys ★

Correction: While I agree the premise is a bit shaky, my understanding from watching the episode is that the people of the planet had it so ingrained in their culture, they weren't willing to consider that. Regardless of where someone was born, if they were born during the period of that sign on their planet, they were under that sign. While watching the episode, I hoped Captain Mercer would use your logic to free them, though. He could have simply said "You know what? We have that same sign in our culture, but because the stars are different for us it comes at a different time."

All the World Is Birthday Cake - S2-E5

Corrected entry: Why would the doctors on Rigor 2 refer to the process of removing a baby from the womb via surgery as a "C-Section"? Even though the exact etymology of the word is uncertain, it certainly was derived from Earth names and works (Lex Caesarea). There's no way an alien planet would use the same term.

wizard_of_gore ★

Correction: The doctors on Rigor 2 are not speaking English. What they are saying is being translated into English by the crew's Union translator.

Bishop73

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Old Wounds - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Gordon starts to unpack his bag, he moves the flap all the way over. When John enters the room, the flap is still down, but in the next shot the flap is sticking pretty much straight up.

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New Dimensions - S1-E11

Question: I get that this may be an involved answer! They say the 2D beings are likely unaware of their presence, "because the cross-section is so small." But surely that doesn't really matter - a 3D person could be sliced in half by a wire the thickness of a hair, and they'd still be killed, so doesn't that apply to 2D being as well? They'll be leaving a trail of destruction in their wake, cutting buildings in half, etc., and none of them seem to care.

Jon Sandys ★

Answer: The book "Flatland", which is mentioned in the show, is a real book that may answer your questions in full (it's the story of a 3-D being experiencing the 2-D world and the 1-D world). In the 2-D world, there is no height, so there's no way to slice anything in half (horizontally). A being living in the 2-D world sees any object or being as a line (it's messy, but the lines have thickness, just not height, but all thickness is the same). So if the Orville was seen, it would only be seen 2 dimensionally and be seen as a line and others beings could just move out of the way. While there were buildings in "Flatland", perhaps this world doesn't have any, or the Orville didn't bump into any. There is death in "Flatland" when a being isn't careful and is poked, but these are usually by lines and triangles and the Orville would more like the circles and not in danger of poking anything.

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