- Kelly leads a team to find two missing Union anthropologists on a planet similar to Earth.
- Admiral Tucker orders the Orville to investigate the disappearance of two Union anthropologists undercover on a planet akin to 21the century earth. The captain must stand by observing Kelly's small away party, including suitably empathetic doc, Alara - whose headdress proves inefficient - and Lieutenant John LaMarr, whose childish dance on a statue is considered an utter outrage. The society has no actual authorities, just a system of voting by the general public on everyone's behavior, and John's is deemed bad enough for tele-voting which may result in 'social correction', a primitive electric brainwashing.—KGF Vissers
- Commander Grayson, Dr Finn, Lt Kitan and Lt LaMarr head down to a planet similar to 21st Century Earth. Undercover, they are looking for two Union anthropologists who have gone missing on the planet. They soon discover that the planet has a primitive form of order: people get upvoted or downvoted on actions. Too many downvotes results in restrictions on freedom and even more results in "social correction", similar to a lobotomy. When Lt LaMarr falls foul of this his future looks grim.—grantss
- The Orville sends an away team down to a planet remarkably similar to present-day Earth. While walking down the street, they approach a news vendor who asks where their badges are and offers to sell them some. As they continue to walk down the street, Lt. LaMarr starts teasing Lt. Kitan about her latest breakup by grinding on a public statue. Unknown to him, several bystanders record the act and upload it for viewing by the entire population.
The team enters a local coffee shop and start to ask Lyselle, who is behind the counter, if she has seen the anthropologists. She is confused by their questions, everyone knows who these two are because they have been corrected. While in the coffee shop, the video of Lt. Lamarr's grinding is seen on the view-screens, and everyone starts to surround them and take videos. As they hurriedly leave the shop, Lt. LaMarr is arrested for his lewd behavior.
While waiting in an administrative office, it is revealed that the justice system is a pure democracy, using up votes and down votes to decide guilt or innocence. Instead of a trial and a lawyer, he is assigned a PR agent and will be required to go on a publicity tour for a week where he has to convince the public he is truly sorry for his transgressions as they vote. If he receives 10,000,000 down-votes, he will be 'corrected'. Lt. Kelly remains with LaMarr to help on the publicity tour, while the rest of the team searches for the missing anthropologist. The first event does not go well, with Lt. LaMarr receiving more down-votes.
The rest of the team go back to the coffee shop and question Lyselle further. She is able to provide them the location where the anthropologists were sent to but sadly reports that one of them was shot trying to escape. After finding the remaining anthropologists, they examine him and learn that correction procedure is very similar to a lobotomy and cannot be reversed.
The team reveals their extra-terrestrial origin to Lyselle and take her back to the Orville. As they question her, they discover she has no concept of any legal procedure recognized by the Union.
As they watch from the Orville, the final publicity event doesn't go well and the down-votes start to skyrocket. It requires some quick thinking by the team and Isaac to flood the stream with comments and manipulated images, stem the tide of down-votes, and save Lt. LaMarr from correction.
At the end, Lysella shows signs of rethinking their justice system.
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