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Last night's new Orville, "Twice in a Lifetime", had a pretty standard Star Trek time travel premise. But it was very sweet and some of the dialogue was surprisingly engrossing.

The Orville is attacked by the Kaylon again and I realised last night the show has managed to make the Kaylon feel truly threatening. As soon as their ships appeared I honestly felt concerned for the crew.

Our heroes escape by the skin of their teeth but Gordon (Scott Grimes) is thrown 400 years into the past, into our modern day Earth. When Ed (Seth MacFarlane) and Kelly (Adrianne Palicki) manage to get to him, he's been living there for ten years. He has a wife, Laura (Leighton Meester), the woman he met back in the season two episode "Lasting Impressions".

This leads to an argument between Scott, Ed, and Kelly where Ed and Kelly try to convince him to return to his own time while Gordon defends his right to live with his wife and kids. Scott Grimes is amazing in these scenes. Considering the danger posed to the timeline, Ed and Kelly are right that Gordon is being selfish but, still, you feel for the guy.