{"id":45925,"date":"2017-05-17T11:46:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45925"},"modified":"2017-05-17T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:47:27","slug":"seth-macfarlanes-the-orville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/05\/seth-macfarlanes-the-orville\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane&#8217;s The Orville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new show by <strong>Seth MacFarlane<\/strong> making its debut this autumn will be of interest to<em> Star Trek<\/em> fans.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Orville<\/em> is a Trek parody and is a &#8220;workplace comedy set in the 25th century. MacFarlane plays Captain Ed Mercer, an underachieving Planetary Union officer put in charge of the <em>U.S.S. Orvill<\/em>e and its mission to explore deep space. Joining him are his ex-wife Kelly Grayson (<em>Agents of SHIELD<\/em> alum <strong>Adrianne Palicki<\/strong>) and a quirky crew&#8221; including a gelatinous creature Yaphit, voiced by <strong>Norm MacDonald<\/strong>, best friend Gordon Malloy (<strong>Scott Grimes<\/strong>), <strong>Peter Macon<\/strong> as the alien Bortus, Artificial life form ISAAC (<strong>Mark Jackson<\/strong>), Navigator John Lamarr (<strong>J. Lee<\/strong>), security officer Alara Kitan (<strong>Halston Sage<\/strong>), Klyden (<strong>Chad L. Coleman<\/strong>) and Dr. Claire Finn (<em>Deep Space Nine<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Kassidy Yates<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The official synopsis is as follows: &#8220;<em>The Orville<\/em> is a one-hour science fiction series set four hundred years in the future that follows the adventures of the <em>U.S.S. Orville<\/em>, a mid-level exploratory vessel. Its crew, both human and alien, faces the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of regular people in a workplace\u2026even though some of those people are from other planets, and the workplace is a faster-than-light spaceship. In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of three thousand ships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen episodes of the hour-long drama\/comedy have been ordered by <em>FOX. The Orville<\/em> will air this fall on Thursday nights at 9 PM.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yy9sKeCE8V0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new show by Seth MacFarlane making its debut this autumn will be of interest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4351],"tags":[5399,6149,9247],"class_list":["post-45925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-star-trek","tag-macfarlane","tag-parody","tag-the-orville"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TheOrville051717.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/general-star-trek\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General Star Trek<\/a>","tag_info":"General Star Trek","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45928,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions\/45928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}