The Orville's Holodeck Does What Star Trek's Never Could
Warning: SPOILERS for The Orville season 3, episode 3, «Mortality Paradox.»
The Orville season 3, episode 3, «Mortality Paradox» offers up a deadly, unused upgrade to Star Trek's holodeck technology. Written by Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy colleague Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, «Mortality Paradox» finds an Orville landing party experiencing simulations of various near-death experiences, orchestrated by a godlike, omnipotent species. These simulations are seemingly the work of a rogue holographic projector that suggests dire consequences for The Orville universe.
Once the Orville's landing party are safely back on board the ship, it becomes clear that this holographic projector is the work of their enemies — the Kaylon. Deploying them on planets that may have strategic importance, The Orville's version of the Borg have tapped into the deadly potential of Star Trek's Holodecks. Arriving on a seemingly uninhabited planet, the holographic projector distracts Captain Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) and his crew from their ongoing mission by trapping them in mind-bending simulations. While it too is eventually revealed to be a simulation, The Orville season 3, episode 3's climactic battle with the Kaylon suggests a deadlier use for Star Trek's holodeck technology.
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Seemingly back aboard the Orville, the crew believes that their enemies are using holographic projectors as weapons in their ongoing war with the Planetary Union. It soon becomes apparent that this too is a simulation, orchestrated by The Orville's Q-like new species, it still suggests a hostile usage that the Star Trek franchise has never deployed. While the Kaylon's use of holographic
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