Spoilers The Orville - Starships and Technologies

[Nerroth]

Since individual threads have been appearing for various episodes of The Orville, I thought it might be apt to have a specific thread aimed at discussing the various Union, Krill, and other starships and technologies which are gradually appearing as the series progresses - and to post relevant clips from the show's official YouTube channel:

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For example, I noted that the Orville's quantum drive is capable of going at speeds of over ten light-years per hour. (This equates to roughly 240 light years, or 73.5843 parsecs, per day.) That is quite fast by post-TNG Franchise standards, where a "small Fed" setup has seemingly become the norm.

I might compare this to the warp speeds used over in the Star Fleet Universe, a "big Fed" setting derived from that shown in the Star Fleet Technical Manual. In the SFU, a Constitution-class heavy cruiser can "cruise" at Warp 7, which covers 18.7 parsecs per day. However, it can "dash" (following pre-set navigational beacons at major planets or bases) at Warp 9.25, which covers 436.27 parsecs per day.

That said, we don't know if the stated speed for the Orville's quantum drive is one at which the ship is comfortable "cruising", or if it is merely the maximum at which the engines can be pushed when necessary. Or if there is likely to be any sort of "official" data on this, or if it would be safe to assume that the ship will move at the "sped of plot" as may be required.

 

[Mudd]

I was intrigued by Bormanis' mention that the wall coverings on Orville are essentially plants which scrub and recycle the air.



The U.S.S. Olympia, according to McFarlane a "Leviathan" class ship.

 

[The Wormhole]

In the recent episode when Ed and Kelly are meeting with the Admiral in the briefing room, I noticed a painting on the wall which seems to be a ship or maybe a station. Anyone get a good look at it, or know what it is?

 

[Mudd]

I'll look for that.

Oh yeah, they fuel their ships with something called "Dysonium." And they have handheld computers called comscanners that do everything that communicators and tricorders do on That Other Show (or "TOS").

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

We see some different ship in the Ep.07 preview. Notably a single nacelle/ring/loop ship coming in from the right. A few ships similar to the Orville and maybe one (left side) that looks to have 2 rings/loops.

 

[B.J.]

I noticed those single and double hoop ships in the first episode. Seems to be a stock shot. Still, I wouldn't mind getting a closer look! Although I wouldn't be surprised if the double hoop is just the Orville with the lower hoop removed.

 

[Markonian]

Notably, in episode 1, Commander Grayson uses the word “starship”.

 

[Cyrus]

They even use USS, probably for Union StarShip

 

[Locutus of Bored]

In the recent episode when Ed and Kelly are meeting with the Admiral in the briefing room, I noticed a painting on the wall which seems to be a ship or maybe a station. Anyone get a good look at it, or know what it is?

They never showed the whole painting, just the bottom part, but it looks like it's possibly concept art for the space station seen in Ar-Pharazon's post.

 

[Markonian]

Any idea what ECV in the registry may stand for?
Exploratory Contract Vessel?

 

[F. King Daniel]

"Extremely Cool Vehicle"

 

[Forbin]

I was too busy going "Hey! The admiral is Kelly Hu!!" to notice the painting.

 

[tharpdevenport]

That said, we don't know if the stated speed for the Orville's quantum drive is one at which the ship is comfortable "cruising", or if it is merely the maximum at which the engines can be pushed when necessary. Or if there is likely to be any sort of "official" data on this, or if it would be safe to assume that the ship will move at the "sped of plot" as may be required.

There doesn't appear to be any cruising or maximum. Correct me if wrong, but every episode so far has been orders to initiate the quantum drive and they go off -- no specified speed level.

Further more, with it's speed as it is, it's hard to believe the ship can ever been in danger that's too real, because they are always within a timely reachable distance of other Union ships, especially considering in the pilot the admiral says there are three of four thousand ships in the fleet.

 

[Trekker4747]

Since individual threads have been appearing for various episodes of The Orville, I thought it might be apt to have a specific thread aimed at discussing the various Union, Krill, and other starships and technologies which are gradually appearing as the series progresses - and to post relevant clips from the show's official YouTube channel:

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For example, I noted that the Orville's quantum drive is capable of going at speeds of over ten light-years per hour. (This equates to roughly 240 light years, or 73.5843 parsecs, per day.) That is quite fast by post-TNG Franchise standards, where a "small Fed" setup has seemingly become the norm.

I might compare this to the warp speeds used over in the Star Fleet Universe, a "big Fed" setting derived from that shown in the Star Fleet Technical Manual. In the SFU, a Constitution-class heavy cruiser can "cruise" at Warp 7, which covers 18.7 parsecs per day. However, it can "dash" (following pre-set navigational beacons at major planets or bases) at Warp 9.25, which covers 436.27 parsecs per day.

That said, we don't know if the stated speed for the Orville's quantum drive is one at which the ship is comfortable "cruising", or if it is merely the maximum at which the engines can be pushed when necessary. Or if there is likely to be any sort of "official" data on this, or if it would be safe to assume that the ship will move at the "sped of plot" as may be required.

Not sure how or where these figure come from, but Starfleet/Federation ships are nowhere near that fast. The Orville is monumentally faster than even the fastest Starfleet ships in the late 24th century. Granting the show was never really consistent with the speeds and times, at a cruising Warp speed it'd still take Federation ships several days to go from Earth to Proxima Centauri a little over 4 light years away. The Orville can traverse this distance in about half an hour.

But, in the shows, we see the ships -seemingly- traveling between distant star systems inside of a day suggesting they're traveling at or around maximum warp. (Well, and just plot conveniences.) But it should be fully noted it's said numerous times in Voyager that it'll take more than 70 years for them to travel from the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 lightyears to reach the edge of Federation space. This comes to a speed of about 3 or 4 lightyears/day assuming non-stop movement at maximum warp.

There doesn't appear to be any cruising or maximum. Correct me if wrong, but every episode so far has been orders to initiate the quantum drive and they go off -- no specified speed level.

It'd seem it's similar to most other drive systems in a vehicle you move as fast as you can based on the energy you use and ability of the engine as opposed to there being set "factors" you travel at.

 

[fireproof78]

There doesn't appear to be any cruising or maximum. Correct me if wrong, but every episode so far has been orders to initiate the quantum drive and they go off -- no specified speed level.

Further more, with it's speed as it is, it's hard to believe the ship can ever been in danger that's too real, because they are always within a timely reachable distance of other Union ships, especially considering in the pilot the admiral says there are three of four thousand ships in the fleet.

Which is nicer than being "The only ship in the sector/quadrant/area" trope.

I wouldn't mind seeing larger fleet action and a support system within the Planetary Union.

 

[BillJ]

The U.S.S. Olympia, according to McFarlane a "Leviathan" class ship.

But is it canon?!?

*ducks*

 

[Mudd]

 

[The Wormhole]

Actually, MacFarlane referring to the Admiral's heavy cruiser as a Leviathan class got me wondering, has it been established either on screen, background material, tweets, whatever what class Orville itself is supposed to be? I ask only out of curiosity.

 

[BillJ]

Actually, MacFarlane referring to the Admiral's heavy cruiser as a Leviathan class got me wondering, has it been established either on screen, background material, tweets, whatever what class Orville itself is supposed to be? I ask only out of curiosity.

The only thing I can remember is that it is a mid-range explorer. I can't recall anything other than that being said about the Orville.

 

[USS Triumphant]

They even use USS, probably for Union StarShip

Which frankly makes more sense than any acronym I've ever seen them try to force into "USS" in Trek.