Newly promoted Captain, Ed, is taken aback when his ex-wife is assigned as his First Officer.

Alara must take command of the Orville when Ed and Kelly end up imprisoned in a replica of their old home.

Bortus and Klyden debate whether their newborn child should have a controversial surgery.

The crew encounters a vessel adrift in space that's about to collide with a star.

Ed becomes smitten with the captain of a stranded ship, but Kelly suspects all is not what it seems.

Kelly leads a team to find two missing Union anthropologists on a planet similar to Earth.

The crew set out to save Dr. Finn, her two sons and Isaac, after their shuttle gets thrown into uncharted space.

While the crew attempts to mediate a peace treaty between two warring cultures, tensions rise between Ed and Kelly when a familiar face comes aboard.

Alara questions whether she's fit for her job when a fire breaks out on the Orville and a crew member dies.

The Orville gets damaged by a spatial anomaly causing harrowing effects to all living things.

The crew crash land on a planet from another universe; Ed and Kelly consider getting back together.