More People Should Watch The Hulu Sci-Fi Gem That Out Star Treks Star Trek

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Thursday marks the finale for The Orville: New Horizons, the third season of Seth MacFarlane's sci-fi series The Orville. What started off as a parody of has evolved into a show that expands on the ethical dilemmas and social commentary that the iconic sci-fi series was known for. 
Plus, it has the kind of laughs expected from the creator of Family Guy and American Dad. There's still that love of Star Trek in every episode, but The Orville's maturation makes me enjoy it more than the series that inspired it. 

Currently available on , the series is set in the 25th century and follows the adventures on the starship USS Orville, which gets its name from Orville Wright of the Wright brothers.

MacFarlane plays Capt. Ed Mercer, who leads the ship with his second-in-command and ex-wife, Commander Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki). Like Star Trek, the crew is made up of humans and aliens exploring the far reaches of the galaxy, but its characters are more modern, with plenty of human (or alien) flaws and behaviors. They straddle the line between the almost flawless, erudite crew of the Enterprise in the original Star Trek series and The Next Generation, and the more gritty and foul-mouthed characters of and .