Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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GGSurvivor said:
About once a week the thought comes into my mind about what the characters of the Big Bang Theory would've thought about nutrek at the end of the day. I like to think Sheldon would have fights with Amy about the fat woman
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Keep in mind, these people were canonically blown away by Suicide Squad and The Force Awakens.
 
I got to S3E8 of The Orville and forgot how retarded it was.

Haveena had one task as part of her official diplomatic agreement with the Moclans: stop smuggling Moclan females off of Moclus. The Union sacrificed a ton of political capital to get this and Haveena's first move as the leader of a precarious colony is... to violate her diplomatic agreement and continue to smuggle Moclan females off of Moclus. Then, in service to this blatant breach of a diplomatic agreement preventing her colony's utter destruction, she deliberately enlists the aid of a child because she knows that child has access to better communications technology than she does. Captain Mercer berates Haveena for this, rightly so (which is not explored again in the rest of the episode), but Haveena refuses to testify before the Union Council, thus ensuring a child's death, as well as ensuring her network will be compromised and her colony will be seized in violation of aforementioned diplomatic agreement.

It isn't until a hologram of Dolly Parton convinces her to do the right thing. Even then, she pulls a Curly from Hey Arnold!:


She flat out tells the Union Council she did it, she doesn't care that she did it, she'd do it again, and she didn't care that it endangered the child of a Union officer until the hologram of a long-dead country music star convinced her. Haveena demonstrates to the Union that she:
  • will flagrantly violate diplomatic agreements
  • is openly revolutionary and does not care or understand that you can't do that as part of a larger political alliance
  • will sacrifice children for her revolutionary goals
  • can be convinced to do something based on a hologram
How does the Union respond? They reward Haveena by expelling her enemies from the Union and making her colony a Union protectorate. This is not revisited in the rest of Season 3, which continues its morality play with the Moclans. Granted, the Moclans made the mistake of not informing the Union of their suspicions about Haveena and then torturing a child, but the entire thing Haveena's fault.

The hardest part for me is the automatic expectation that, in Season 4, Haveena will face no consequences for this. Her planet will be all hunky dory, an all-female utopia, nothing to see here, no insane child-sacrificing revolutionary leader, ain't nobody here but us chickens.

At least they reckoned with Isaac's actions in Season 2 at the beginning of Season 3, so there's a glimmer of hope.
 
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