Some reviews complain about the fact that the plot is unbelievable/flawed.
That the Orville should be destroyed after the wormhole is closed because Pria will not be there to save the ship.
However, would the Orville have been caught in the dark matter storm in the first place, if they hadn't gone to investigate the signal from the crashed mining ship Pria was "rescued" from?
It seems to me that this episode in fact deals with a time loop. Pria in her time targets the Orville as a recoverable artifact because it's history reports it as being destroyed in a dark matter storm. She goes back in time through the wormhole and tricks the Orville into rescuing her, unwittingly causing the ship into the location that would have destroyed it. In effect making her time travel the cause of the destruction.
Destroying the wormhole broke the loop and therefore the Ship never entered the Dark Matter storm and so it was never destroyed.
Reminded me a bit of the time loop in the "Time Squared" episode of TNG. (The one where the Enterprise picks up a confused future version of Picard drifting in space in an Enterprise shuttle craft.
It seems to me that this episode in fact deals with a time loop. Pria in her time targets the Orville as a recoverable artifact because it's history reports it as being destroyed in a dark matter storm. She goes back in time through the wormhole and tricks the Orville into rescuing her, unwittingly causing the ship into the location that would have destroyed it. In effect making her time travel the cause of the destruction.
Destroying the wormhole broke the loop and therefore the Ship never entered the Dark Matter storm and so it was never destroyed.
Reminded me a bit of the time loop in the "Time Squared" episode of TNG. (The one where the Enterprise picks up a confused future version of Picard drifting in space in an Enterprise shuttle craft.