The Orville: The Road Not Taken (2019)
Season 2, Episode 14
Let our last meal be a Twinkie
3 May 2019
I could be mean and dock the show a couple of points for total scientific BS, like the broken up planet near the black hole: there's no way that density of rubble could occur without aggregation. And as for going past the event horizon in a black hole? Totally impossible. But the thing is, it's a TV show and it's entertainment. Damned good entertainment, at that.

It's a "What if?" story inside an entirely "what if?" series where anything can be possible, even the most improbable events could occur, like a guy who had to keep his shirt on while swimming until he was twenty could save the galaxy. And that remarkable event depended on the love between a pair of humans.

Yeah, time travel. It'll bite you on your ass. Step off the path and you might wind up having velociraptors as the top level predators in present day, while you and your monkey woman shudder in darkness. Not having a second date leads the Galaxy to fall to psychotic mechanical constructs eliminating all life.

Brownian motion may save us all, but intelligence can at least keep us on the path.
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