The Orville
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Sep 17, 2026
Mark A. AltmanHOST
It's our annual Trek Politics panel, and this was a great one.
Mark A. AltmanHOST
This, uh, featured showrunner and writer extraordinaire Ronald D. Moore, um, Enterprise writer-producer, uh, Michael Sussman, science, uh, consultant and writer for The Orville, as well as The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Enterprise, and Voyager, Andre Bormanis.
Mark A. AltmanHOST
Uh, Tim Russ, Tuvok of Voyager fame was there, Chase Masterson from Deep Space Nine, Bob Seska from the Bob Seska Podcast, of course, Trek Politics, and, uh, Scott Gimple, the showrunner of The Walking Dead.
Mark A. AltmanHOST
And of course, our, uh, our captain O Captain, the great Dr. Marielle Trump was there once again to talk about Trek politics.
Mark A. AltmanHOST
[upbeat music]He was the science advisor on shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, and then became a writer.
Mark A. AltmanHOST
Um, he wrote for shows like Star Trek: Enterprise.
Mark A. AltmanHOST
He is a producer o- and a writer on The Orville.
Mark A. AltmanHOST
He also, uh, was behind the great Cosmos reimagining.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
yeah yeah um but i i would say that i also completely throw it out there that kirk while writing spock's eulogy as as spock's best friend definitely threw something in that would have pissed him off
Mark O'NeillHOST
There's a great take on that in the Orville.
Mark O'NeillHOST
And it's something like...
Mark O'NeillHOST
Because there's an Orville episode, and it's not even in the serious season.
Mark O'NeillHOST
It's in, like, season two when...
Mark O'NeillHOST
I think it's the guy that John takes over from dies.
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Mark O'NeillHOST
whose seemingly main interest is archaeology doesn't have a beautiful bound 18th, 16th, 17th, 18th century
Eddie EdwardsHOST
Shakespeare.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
Yeah.
Mark O'NeillHOST
It's why people really misclassified the Orville when it started.
Mark O'NeillHOST
It's not Family Guy in space.
Mark O'NeillHOST
It's Star Trek if Star Trek had real people in it.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
Yeah.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
Yeah.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
I hope the Orville's coming back.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
I haven't heard anything about...
RachelHOST
There's also a lot of people on this effects crew went on to long careers in Hollywood.
RachelHOST
Howard Berger worked on The Orville, which is a show we really liked.
RachelHOST
He worked on the movie Them and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
RachelHOST
Did you like that show? I liked it because I'm a Star Trek nerd.
RachelHOST
That's right.
RachelHOST
Yes, I do remember that show.
JohnHOST
But I really liked The Orville.
RachelHOST
Great.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
I think maybe there's some blocks, like if he'd asked it to extrapolate, because I like that he says you extrapolate the surrounding area from it, and he says, yeah, okay, I can do that, but it's going to get... like 5% less accurate for every 10 feet, which is something the AI bros should fucking recognize.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
And I also think we have another, can data think emotions rather than feel them? because there's a whole bit where he's trying to work it out and it's like he's and Bev has a conversation with him where he's like you're worried about Geordie because he's your best friend and Data's like well no I'm not I'm not capable of feeling anxiety but i am probably working on this harder than i would normally because geordie is my best friend yeah yeah it's quite nice uh it's very similar to um it's brilliant i can't believe i have to say this it done probably might be done it actually better in the fucking Orville when Isaac falls in love with the doctor and then ends up miscalculating something and they're like I was unaware that you could do that and he was like yeah I don't know I'm going to have to run all my diagnostics I think I've fallen in love yeah yeah yeah
Mark O'NeillHOST
Laura pointed something out as well that was quite interesting which is when first of all when They put...
Mark O'NeillHOST
When they think that...
Mark O'NeillHOST
Yeah.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
Um, The Orville and Deep Space Nine have both d- yeah.
Mark O'NeillHOST
[laughs]
Eddie EdwardsHOST
It's like the...
Kevin ReitzelHOST
Make sure you check out the Star Trek two part episode.
Kevin ReitzelHOST
And then we had fun with the Orville and did a show based on all of the crew members and the, the couple episodes that highlighted them the best.
Kyle WagnerHOST
Yeah.
Kyle WagnerHOST
But you weren't done.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
What is it about recently TV shows starting as a comedy and then just going, actually, season...
Eddie EdwardsHOST
The Orville.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
Actually, let's just be really high-concept fucking next-generation fan fiction.
Mark O'NeillHOST
Yeah, well, I guess there is that thing of if you want a really good serious actor, find a comedian.
Mark O'NeillHOST
Harrowing television.
Mark O'NeillHOST
And yeah, you're right.
Mark O'NeillHOST
As soon as the Orville changed channel and they asked him, Seth, what do you want to do? And he's like, I want to make a 70-minute treatise on the guilt that comes from suicidal feelings.
Mark O'NeillHOST
Oh, that sounds funny.
John SiuntresHOST
I'm doing all right, man.
John SiuntresHOST
Are you in the midst of directing as far as Picard Season 3 or The Orville or Discovery?
Jonathan FrakesGUEST
Actually, you hit three out of the four.
Jonathan FrakesGUEST
I just finished Picard Season 3.
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John SiuntresHOST
So, no, I feel you.
John SiuntresHOST
I feel you.
John SiuntresHOST
But, hey, also, I'm really interested in the differences, because obviously, in a lot of ways, these are a lot of former Star Trek crew, but directing the Orville, you did two episodes so far, and as you were saying at the start, sounds like you did another one for this upcoming season three.
Jonathan FrakesGUEST
No, I didn't.
Rob LambHOST
...
Rob LambHOST
Voyager, Enterprise, TV's 24, and The Orville.
Joe McCormickHOST
Mission Impossible II is the one with a lot of flips in it.
Rob LambHOST
[laughs] I think I ac- That's the last Mission Impossible film I saw, and I don't remember much about it.
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