If the Stars Should Appear
- Episode aired Sep 28, 2017
- TV-14
- 43m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
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The crew encounters a vessel adrift in space that's about to collide with a star.The crew encounters a vessel adrift in space that's about to collide with a star.The crew encounters a vessel adrift in space that's about to collide with a star.
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- TriviaWhile the story is reminiscent of the classic For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (1968), the concept of a biosphere, a damaged generational spacecraft about to be destroyed by a star, and a semi-agrarian society that religiously suppresses knowledge of the truth, was the premise of the Canadian-produced television series The Starlost (1973). Similarly, the Robert A. Heinlein stories "Universe" and "Common Sense" (published in 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction, and later combined in the novel "Orphans of the Sky") feature a ship whose residents are unaware they are on a ship, controlled by a religious totalitarian government who worshiped the builders of the ship as the creators of the "universe".
- GoofsWhen the generation ship first appears on scanners, Alara says it can't be a space station because "there are no space stations this far out." As they are exploring deep into space, her statement ignores the very real possibility that it could be a station from an as-yet unidentified civilization encroaching on Union space.
- Quotes
Hamelac: Again, where are your friends.
Commander Kelly Grayson: Well, the last time I saw them, one was banging your mom and the other was high-fiveing him.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Sound of Music (1965)
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Nice Homage to Isaac Asimov
Perhaps Asimov's most famous short story, "Nightfall" quotes from the same Ralph Waldo Emerson poem about a society that sees the stars only once every thousand years. This episode involves a biosphere within an enormous spaceship that's been adrift for a thousand years and the people living there are clueless that they are even on a ship until the Orville crew open the "walls" that form the artificial sky in the biodome and the stars shine through. Also reminiscent of Robert Heinein's "Orphans of the Sky" (1941) also involving a ship so long adrift that the memory of being within a ship moving through space has been lost.
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- rgrif42
- Oct 25, 2017
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD
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