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* TheAtoner: Kelly goes to the Admiralty in secret and endorses Ed for a Captain's seat out of guilt at destroying their marriage and the downward spiral his career took following their divorce.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Look, Ed, just... just don't fuck this up, okay?]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Look, Ed, just... just don't fuck this up, okay?]][[caption-width-right:350:Good luck, Ed. You'll need it.]]

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* OhCrap: Kelly, when Mercer [[PlotIncitingInfidelity catches her in bed with]] [[BoldlyComing a blue alien]].

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Kelly, when Mercer [[PlotIncitingInfidelity catches her in bed with]] [[BoldlyComing a blue alien]].alien]].
** Ed, when he reads the message from Command telling him who his [[WorkingWithTheEx first officer is going to be]].



* ShoutOut: [[Franchise/{{theSmurfs}} "Papa Smurf"]]

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[[Franchise/{{theSmurfs}} "Papa Smurf"]]Smurf"]]
** The time-accelerating device is startlingly similar to the one in the classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]". Both devices' inventors get killed off in the [[RapidAging same way]], too.
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* RankUp: Mercer first appears as a Commander (we learn later that he was stationed at the Epsilon Eridani outpost) before being promoted to Captain when Admiral Halsey gives him command of the ''Orvile''.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Captain Mercer is unhappy to learn that his new first officer is none other than his ex-wife. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether While they tend to bicker]], they also agree to [[ConsummateProfessional put aside their differences as best they can.]] For the most part, they tend to work well together.
* YourCheatingHeart: Kelly with "Papa Smurf" in the prologue.

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* WorkingWithTheEx: Captain Mercer is unhappy to learn that his new first officer is none other than his ex-wife. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether While they tend to bicker]], they also agree to [[ConsummateProfessional put aside their differences as best they can.]] For the most part, they tend to work well together.
* YourCheatingHeart: Kelly with "Papa Smurf" in the prologue.
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* TrojanHorse: The crew rigs the quantum field manipulator to immediately accelerate time by 100 years when the Krill activate it, having glued a modified redwood seed to the emitter. Cue a redwood sapling splitting the Krill Destroyer in half.

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* TrojanHorse: The crew rigs the quantum field manipulator to immediately accelerate time by 100 years when the Krill activate it, having glued a modified redwood seed to the emitter. Cue a 100-foot redwood sapling splitting the Krill Destroyer in half.
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* BrickJoke: The first thing Lamarr asks Mercer is whether or not he can drink soda on TheBridge; Mercer allows it as long as he keeps it safely below the console. When the ''Orville'' launches a few scenes later, Lamarr is drinking a soda...and keeps it safely below his console just like Mercer told him.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Look, Ed, just... just don't fuck this up, okay?]]
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* ArmorIsUseless: The Krill troopers on the surface get gunned down left and right.


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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The Krill raiding party are all really lousy shots.


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* OnlyAFleshWound: Mercer gets shot in the shoulder, but after a bit of griping, shrugs it off.
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** Also, Alara had no eyebrows in this episode.

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