History Recap / TheOrvilleS1E10Firestorm

* SummonedBySobbing: Alara's mother recounts a story from when Alara was a baby. One night while she and baby Alara were home alone, a house fire started. Alara's mother had been asleep on the couch while holding the baby, and was only awoken by Alara crying in terror. It's implied that this is where Alara's fear of fire came from.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Mercer struggles to write a condolence letter for a crewmember he barely knew; even the most conscientious commanding officer can't be expected to know the intimate details of everyone in his or her charge.
** The simulator is revealed to work on a treadmill principle, explaining how Alara can be roaming around the ship while remaining inside a relatively small chamber.
** Alara gets thrown around and attacked inside the simulator, and sports actual (if minor) physical injury when the program ends.
** Although it's treated as a joke, having a rule prohibiting someone from having bare feet in the engine room isn't an unreasonable regulation, especially given that Directive 38 was apparently, in part, created to address the possibility of inebriated commanding officers.
** At the same time, however, averted with regards to Directive 38 being an order that cannot be rescinded by anyone; in reality some level of authority (if not the commanding officer, then definitely the chief medical officer or the security chief or officer filling the role, or failing that someone of higher command such as an admiral) would exist to countermand the order, especially if it unnecessarily endangered the ship or the crew member. Though if the order really CAN'T be rescinded, this would explain why, as Mercer states, an officer using Directive 38 in error would be cashiered from Union service.
** It could stand to reason that there would not be a countermeasure for ''this'' specific scenario since Directive 38 was never meant to be used for this kind of situation.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Various instances in this episode blatantly violate how a realistic Space Navy would deal with Alara and her issues.
** Alara would never have qualified through officer & ship training without having to advise command of her psychological problems regarding fire.
** Alara would also have had to go through a damage control rotation as part of her training, which would include nearly identical situations as the one she faced in this episode, again exposing her to her fears and making them known to command, and if she didn't pass it, she would be forced to drop out of the service.
** Directive 38, where the Head of Security locks out the ships controls, is stated to be something which if misused, would kill a security officers career. Which it should have in this situation because it was clearly misused. While Mercer might forgive her, no other Captain she might end up working under could ever trust her again, which is why the punishment for misuse is being cashiered.

** When Alara gets to Engineering, Isaac greets her with "Hello, Alara." At this point in the series, ISaac never refers to any of the crew by their first names. A fewseconds later, it is revealed that Isaac is the one behind everything happening. [[spoiler:A few more seconds and we learn that it is all a simulation.]]

* DestroyingAPunchingBag: The episodes sees Lieutenant Alana cope with the death of one of her officers by destroying HardLight sandbags with her SuperStrength. After getting chewed out by her First Officer and the Chief Medical officer, she can just restart reset HardLight projector and re-create the sandbag and punch it apart all over again.

* DestroyingThePunchingBag: The episodes sees Lieutenant Alana cope with the death of one of her officers by destroying HardLight sandbags with her SuperStrength. After getting chewed out by her First Officer and the Chief Medical officer, she can just restart reset HardLight projector and re-create the sandbag and punch it apart all over again.

* MadDoctor: Doctor Finn tries to eviscerate Alara after restraining her for some unapproved "surgery". Taken UpToEleven when Finn is later interrogated.

* RealityEnsues:
** Mercer struggles to write a condolence letter for a crewmember he barely knew; even the most conscientious commanding officer can't be expected to know the intimate details of everyone in his or her charge.
** The simulator is revealed to work on a treadmill principle, explaining how Alara can be roaming around the ship while remaining inside a relatively small chamber.
** Alara gets thrown around and attacked inside the simulator, and sports actual (if minor) physical injury when the program ends.
** Although it's treated as a joke, having a rule prohibiting someone from having bare feet in the engine room isn't an unreasonable regulation, especially given that Directive 38 was apparently, in part, created to address the possibility of inebriated commanding officers.
** At the same time, however, averted with regards to Directive 38 being an order that cannot be rescinded by anyone; in reality some level of authority (if not the commanding officer, then definitely the chief medical officer or the security chief or officer filling the role, or failing that someone of higher command such as an admiral) would exist to countermand the order, especially if it unnecessarily endangered the ship or the crew member. Though if the order really CAN'T be rescinded, this would explain why, as Mercer states, an officer using Directive 38 in error would be cashiered from Union service.
** It could stand to reason that there would not be a countermeasure for ''this'' specific scenario since Directive 38 was never meant to be used for this kind of situation.

* {{Adorkable}}: Alara as she receives praise from Ed for doing so well in the simulator, later going to bed with a smile on her face.

** It could stand to reason that there would not be a countermeasure for ''this'' specific scenario since [[FridgeLogic Directive 38 was never meant to be used for this kind of situation]].