History Recap / TheOrvilleS1E05Pria

* TrickedOutTime: the standard procedure of Pria and her colleagues. They prevent the destruction of a ship and the death of all onboard, changing their own past. However, they immediately take both ship and crew to the future so that History still records them as having been destroyed as they were “supposed” to have been.

* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: Mercer tells Pria "you know where you can go." When she asks where, he adds "to Hell." However, by the 29th century, that phrase appears to have been long forgotten so it doesn't have the effect Mercer was hoping for.

* InsultBackfire: Mercer tells Pria "you know where you can go." When she asks where, he adds "to Hell." However, by the 29th century, that phrase appears to have been long forgotten so it doesn't have the effect Mercer was hoping for.

* RunningGag: Mercer again attempts to open a door by brute force, fails miserably, and passes the task off to Alara with the line, "Could you open this jar of pickles for me?"

* AsteroidThicket: The ''Orville'' gets caught in a dark matter storm that surrounds the ship with large bubbles of matter that threaten to crush the ship.

* CatFight: {{Subverted}}. The first full-on hand to hand brawl in-series and it's between [[DarkActionGirl Pria]] and [[ActionGirl Grayson]]. No hair-pulling or scratching or sexy anything. It's a ''brawl,'' and both of them come out bloodied. It's [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Furiosa]] versus [[Series/AgentsOfShield Morse]]

* TimeyWimeyBall: Mercer destroys the wormhole so it isn't there for Pria to use in the future--but somehow the ''Orville'' still isn't destroyed by the dark matter storm.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Pria has a personal teleportation device.

* BrainUploading: Isaac uploades his mind into the ship's computer when feedback from Pria's device nearly destroys his body.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: When Grayson jumps Pria, there are no fancy martial arts involved, they just start throwing haymakers at each other until Pria's face is a bloody mess.

!!Tropes:

* BlackComedy: Discussed when Isaac wonders why Seinfeld and Kramer potentially killing a patient through their comical fumbling is funny. The lesson Isaac takes from this is that amputating Malloy's leg is funny as long as he isn't otherwise harmed by it.

* TimeyWimeyBall: Mercer destroys the wormhole so it isn't there for Pria to use in the future...but somehow the Orville still isn't destroyed by the dark matter storm.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Pria travels through time collecting artifacts from the past that would have been destroyed. UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart was apparently one of her acquisitions.

** Had Pria not entered their timestream, the Orville may have not gone near the dark matter storm. While Pria is aware the Orville was originally destroyed by the storm, she may not have been aware initially they were only there because of her in the first place. Erase her from their timeline, and they never go near the storm.

* ComedicSociopathy: Isaac went through the trouble of amputating Malloy's leg as a prank and hiding it. After the shock of being minus a leg wears off, Malloy admits it's pretty funny.