Clicked on one of those astroturfed youtube vids of a battle involving the Kaylon or whatever and I kept getting bombarded with 'The Orville' Youtube shorts in the days since. One of them was about that Abortus guy and his husband fighting over their kid's gender.
I never got passed episode three or four of the first season, so I had no idea. These are such thinly veiled Hollywoke talking points and specific political pet peeves. You must be absolutely blind to not see what was going on. Charlize 'My Sons Are Girls Now' Theron was also on the show.
And this microwaved slop was supposed to be the acceptable normie alternative to Star Trek Disco/STD?
to be honest, that particular episode came off as a 'no easy answers' type of story... yeah, the characters had strong opinions, in both directions, and what happened in the end was what it was, however the episode didn't exactly spoonfeed an easy answer to the problem.
It's part of why the showed appealed to classic star trek fans. it had its problems, but it didn't act as though every moral question had an easy answer by the conclusion of a story arc. I kinda tuned out somewhere in season 2 (wasn't the show, just other things going on), so I don't know what happened after that...