If Star Trek Wasn't Enough, The Orville Is Copying Star Wars Now Too!
WARNING: This article contains spoilers for The Orville, season 3, episode 9, «Domino».
Seth MacFarlane's The Orville is known for its affectionate homages to classic Star Trek, but in season 3, episode 9, «Domino», it also borrows heavily from Star Wars. In «Domino», The Orville's Kaylon war is brought to a spectacular close with alliances, betrayals, an epic space battle, and a full-scale planetary assault. It furthers the show's reputation for ambitious visual effects, which previously won The Orville an Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects back in 2019.
«Domino» is an impressive combination of the ethical dilemmas of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek with the high-stakes space battles of George Lucas' Star Wars. It opens with the trialing of a weapon that could turn the tide of the war against the Kaylon. The devastating power of the weapon leads to an ethical debate about whether genocide is an acceptable price to pay for victory. It's exactly this sort of moral wartime quandary that defines The Orville's Star Trek: Deep Space Nine moment. When that ethical dilemma swiftly reaches a compromise, however, the stage is set for the episode's epic climactic space battle.
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Having successfully used the weapon to negotiate an armistice with the Kaylon, the Union awaited the beginning of the peace process. A peace process that is put in jeopardy when the weapon is stolen and handed over to the Union and the Kaylon's mutual enemies, the Krill and the Moclans. They intend to use the weapon for its original purpose, to wipe out the whole Kaylon species unless the crew of the Orville can stop them. The implementation of the weapon is a visual nod to the
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