[CaptainCrunch]

Good episode tonight and the seasons stories on the Moclan's and their culture kind of reached a conclusion tonight. I won't go into a huge review, but I really enjoyed this epsiode

Spoiler!

So basically this episode shows us that there is a underground railroad for Moclan females that leads to a colony.


This episode was heavy on the concept of security vs freedom as the Moclan female colony asked for membership into the union so they could be protected from their own species who would force the woman to have corrective surgery and spend the rest of their life in prison.


In the end the shadow of the Kaylons looms large as the Moclan's vowed that they would withdraw themselves and their weapons from the Union if the Union admitted the female colony.


All season we've been learning that the Moclan society is pretty horrible and runs counter to the values of the Union, but they tolerate it because the Moclans build all the weapons for the union. In the end the compromise was that there could be no more smuggling of female children and the Moclan female colony wouldn't be allowed to join the Union and the Moclans wouldn't destroy the colony.


There wasn't a ton of humor in the episode as this was a weighty topic, but the Moclan female leader becoming enamored with Dolly Parton and a fairly intense battle scene with 9 to 5 playing was well done.


The effects in this episode were brilliant, the look of the Orville slicing through the nebula was beautiful. As was the battle on the ground with Kelly showing as a complete bad a$$.


For fans of Star Trek this episode was loaded with Star Trek Actors.


Marinia Sitris had a cameo as a teacher.
F Murray Abraham who was in the awful insurrection had a role as the Union Chair Person
Tony Todd has played several roles in Star Trek, he played Worf's brother in DS9 and TNG, the grown up Jake Sisko,