The Orville actually has a whole bunch of Trek alums working on it, including Brannon Braga, cinematographer Marvin Rush, and directors Frakes, Robert McNeil and James Conway. If you’re willing to suffer through McFarlane’s penchant for stupid dick and weed jokes, the show itself is a surprisingly serious Trek-riff in places. It’s acrually been dealing with stuff like LBGT gender identity and theocracy. It’s not really the Galaxy Quest comedy that the marketing is selling it as.