Timeline

See also: Alternate timeline

*For a list of* The Orville *media in chronological order, see Timeline of media.*
   The series premiere opens with Kelly Grayson's affair in the fall of 2418 before jumping to September 2419 when Ed Mercer becomes captain of the USS *Orville*. The show briefly enters the 29th century in *Pria*. Season 1 concludes in April or May of 2420.

Season 1.5 takes place over the summer of 2420 with glimpses of the early 24th century in *New Beginnings, Pt. 1* and glimpses of the early winter of 2420 in *The Word of Avis, Pt. 1*.

Season 2 commences around August 2420. The cold opening of *All the World is Birthday Cake* takes place around the year 2417 on Regor 2. The season concludes in May 2421.

Season 2.5 takes place exactly 12 months after the conclusion of Season 1.5. *Launch Day, Pt. 1* opens in 2400 aboard the USS *Bohr* before jumping to July 2421.

Season 3 commences in early 2422; events in the latter half of season 2 are said to have taken place "last year".

*The events are set a year earlier in the original script of* Old Wounds*, with the series opening in 2417 before moving forward to 2418.*

## 3,400,000 years ago

* The Zankon rules part of the galaxy as part of the Zankon empire and enslave 37 other species. The subjugated species eventually revolt.
* Predicting the collapse of their empire, the Zankon hide part of their formidable fleet inside the Cruxis system in the hopes of one day returning to power.
* Fall of the Zankon empire.

## c. 27,581 BCE

* A common ancestor of the Bruidians and the Navarians settles the planet Lopovius, as evidenced by residual DNA left in a birthing bucket.

## c. 702 BCE

* The Giliac star in the Giliac constellation collapses into a black hole and disappears from the sky on Regor 2.

## c. 419 CE

* A bio-ship under the command of Jahavus Dorahl embarks on a three-generational trip through the galaxy that turns into a 2,000 year journey.

## 1642

* Isaac Newton the physicist, mathematician, and astronomer is born.

## 1729

* Baltimore, Maryland is founded on Earth.

## 1880s

* *Flatland*, a story about a two-dimensional society of shapes which Ed Mercer would liken to two-dimensional space, is published. A metaphor for inequality, the more sides a shape had, the higher their social status; the triangles were the workman class, the squares were the gentry and the circles were the most respected of all.

## 1903

* **December 3**
	+ The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, make their first successful flight in the *Wright Flyer*. *The Orville* will later be named for one of them, and a model of the *Wright Flyer* will adorn Ed Mercer's office.

## 1937

* Famed woman aviator Amelia Earhart is captured by Pria Lavesque.

## 1945

* Japan surrenders to America. The New York City of this time will be recreated within the USS *Orville* simulator.

## 1952

* The film *Singin' in the Rain* is released.

## 1955

* The puppet character Kermit the Frog is introduced on Earth.

## 1964

* The television special *Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer* is broadcast.

## 1965

* The film *The Sound of Music* is released.

### 1980

* Release of Dolly Parton's song *9 to 5*.

## 1993

* *The Junior Mint*, an episode of the television series *Seinfeld* is broadcast.

## 2015

### March

* **March 21:**
	+ 01:43 PM: Laura Huggins donates her cellphone to the community time capsule of Saratoga Springs, New York.
* **March 28:**
	+ The city of Saratoga Springs intends to bury the community time capsule on this date.

### November–December

* The city of Saratoga Springs buries the community time capsule somewhere north of Albany, New York.

## 2035

* *Mind of Hermes*, featuring the character of Jeff Bellman and destined to become Claire Finn's favorite film, is completed in this year.

## 2056

* An unnamed genetic engineer discovers how to target and eradicate individual cancer cells.

## c. 2200s

* Ensign Hodges is likely born in the late 2200s.

## c. 2235

* The Gendel 3 inhabitants are visited by the early Union explorers, and revealed themselves. The Union ended up showing their technology to the Gendel 3 inhabitants, who in the following years could not control the spread, leading to war due to personal gains and political dominance.

## c. 2240

* The people of Gendel 3 wiped themselves out due to war and approximately 9 billion inhabitants were killed.

## c. 2320

* The Nyxians discover that their world will be engulfed by their sun within a century. As they have no method of space travel, the Nyxians retreat underground.
* The Planetary Union fights a bloody war with the Tzel, resulting in the loss of thousands of lives.
	+ Battle of the Chog Homeworld
		- The BCV *Burton* is lost.
			* Ensign Hodges and 20 crewmembers are stranded on the Chog homeworld and later die there.

### 2371

* Around this year, the Envall agree with the Planetary Union to stay away from worlds with nitrogen-rich atmospheres.

### Late 2370s

* Gordon Malloy is born.
* Orrin Channing is born.

## 2380s

* John LaMarr is born.
* Kelly Grayson is born.

### 2388

* Ock'or is captured and added to the menagerie of the Calivon Zoo.

## 2390s

### 2390

#### August or September

* In either the last week of August or sometime in September, Galdus Harona is born on Xelaya to Cambis and Floratta Borrin.

### 2391

* Gordon Malloy and Orrin Channing become friends in grade school around this year.

### 2394

* Physicist Janice Lee, who developed the quantum accelerator, is born.

### Late 2396 or Early 2397

* A fire breaks out in the Kitan household, sparking a debilitating fear of fire in Alara that leads to the events of *Firestorm*.

## 2400s

### 2400

* Ensigns Ed Mercer, Gordon Malloy, and Ycil of Alibar serve aboard the USS *Bohr*.

#### December

* Alibar secedes from the Planetary Union.

### 2401

* Birth of Leyna Channing.
* Orrin Channing and Gordon Malloy are stationed at Outpost 73. Sophie and Leyna Channing live with Orrin.
	+ The Krill launch a surprise attack on Outpost 73.
		- Orrin saves Gordon's life but is captured in the process.
		- Death of Sophie Channing.
		- Death of Leyna Channing.

### 2409

* Orrin claims that Leyna stopped talking in this year although, in reality, she had died nine years prior.

## 2410s

### 2411

* At the age of 21, Galdus Harona starts teaching at the University of Xenara Medical School.
* A bottle of oppsada that Bortus, Klyden, and Ed later drink in April 2420 is aged starting in this year.

### 2412

* Toren and Korick become mates.
* Having "bled the place dry", the Navarians abandon their colony on Situla 4, leaving behind a mining outpost.

### 2413

* Bortus and Klyden become mates.
* Ed Mercer and Lieutenant Kelly Grayson go out on their first date.
* On the morning after the date, Kelly is extracted from her apartment, which deposits her aboard the USS *Orville* seven years later.
	+ Kelly is sent back but her memory is not wiped. Remembering the future, she declines a date with Ed, creating an **alternate timeline**.
		- Claire is sent back and successfully wipes Kelly's memory, eliminating the alternate timeline.
			* With Kelly's memory now fully expunged, she accepts a date with Ed at 9:00 a.m.

### 2414

* Alternative possible dates for Ed and Kelly meeting and dating (see footnote).
* Ed and Kelly marry.

### Mid-Late 2410s

* Ed celebrates Kelly's birthday by presenting her with a cake in her office.

### 2415

* Kelly and Ed celebrate their one-year anniversary.

### 2416

* Alara Kitan leaves her home on Xelaya for the Planetary Union.
* Lamarche begins an expedition to discover the legendary lost Zankon fleet.

### 2417

* Ed Mercer loses his favorite robe.
* The Regorian government sends an invitation into space inviting first contact around this year.

### 2418

* Derek Ashton joins the Epsilon Science Station.
* Ed begins commuting every day to Epsilon Eridani.
	+ Kelly endures months of loneliness.

#### Late 2418

* Kelly sleeps with Darulio, a civilian forensic archaeologist, at night.
	+ Ed returns from work in the morning and catches them in bed.
* Ed and Kelly divorce.
* Commander Ed Mercer catches his wife, Kelly Grayson, sleeping with the forensic archaeologist Darulio.

*In a line from the original script of* Old Wounds *which does not appear in the final version, Ed states that he and Kelly were married for four years.*
### 2419

* For a period of about two months, John LaMarr dates both heads of a Keribex woman without either head finding out about the other.
* Galdus Harona dies.

#### January

* Lurenek is added to the Calivon Zoo, Baral is added a few weeks later.

#### Pre-March

* Gordon Malloy is suspended for drawing a penis on the main viewing screen of Outpost T85.

#### Mid-2419

* Darulio begins work on an archaeological dig on the planet Lopovius.

#### September

* The captain of the Orville retires.
* Admiral Tom Halsey offers Ed Mercer command of the mid-level exploratory vessel USS *Orville**.*
	+ Mercer appoints his friend Gordon Malloy to serve as helmsman.
	+ Halsey appoints Kelly Grayson as First Officer.
	+ Claire Finn transfers from another ship to the Orville.
	+ Alara Kitan joins the Orville as Chief of Security.
* **September 10:**
	+ At 9:00 a.m., Ed and Gordon take a shuttle from Union Central to the Orville, a journey of about 15 minutes.
	+ In the afternoon, the Orville departs for the science station at Epsilon 2, a journey is estimated at 19 hours, 51 minutes.
	+ Kelly joins the Orville from Station 794.
* **September 11:**
	+ Before 5:00 p.m., the Battle of Epsilon 2 is fought.
		- The Orville prevents the Krill from stealing a quantum accelerator.
* A few days later, Kelly offers to transfer off the Orville and recommends Murphy for her position. Ed asks her to stay.

*In the original script of* Old Wounds*, it is stated that three weeks pass between Ed accepting Kelly as his First Officer and the repaired* Orville *leaving the Dockyard. This detail, however, does not appear in the final version.*
#### September–October

* The events of *Command Performance* take place over 21 days.
	+ Ed and Kelly are captured by the Calivon.
	+ The Calivon release Ed, Kelly, and Baral.
	+ Alara Kitan receives the Sapphire Star.
	+ Topa is born.

#### October–November

* The events of *About a Girl* take place:
	+ Bortus contacts Internal Affairs on Moclus to change Topa's sex from female to male. Captain Vorak arrives at the Orville to perform the procedure.
	+ Two weeks later, the Orville arrives at Moclus for a Tribunal.

#### November

* The events of *If the Stars Should Appear* take place, and likely over the entire month (see footnote).
	+ Klyden wakes Bortus to discuss his needs at 7:00 a.m.
	+ The away team enters the bio-ship at 10:00 a.m.
	+ The Orville rescues the bio-ship and saves the USS *Druyan* from an attacking Krill destroyer.

* Planetary Union anthropologists Tom and Lewis go missing on Sargus 4.
	+ Tom is killed by the Sargun Department of Corrections. Lewis is given Social Correction.
* The Krill conquer the colony planet Chara 3.

#### December

* An asteroid would have collided with Elnath 4.
* The events of *Pria* take place:
	+ The Orville rescues the time-traveler Pria Lavesque from the mining ship *Horizon* seven minutes, 23 seconds.
		- Ed hosts a cocktail party the same day at 1800 hours.
	+ The Orville destroys a wormhole connecting the 29th century to the 25th.
* The events of Episode 1x06: Krill take place:
	+ The Krill attack Kastra 4 three times in the span of a month.
		- In the third attack,
			* The *Kakov* is destroyed.
			* Nineteen colonists die.
	+ Ed and Gordon infiltrate the *Yakar* to make a copy of the Anhkana.
		- Within a single day, Ed and Gordon stop an attack on Rana 3, kill the crew, and capture the ship.
			* Teleya is captured and sent to a Planetary Union prison.
	+ This episode could also take place in early 2420.
* Admiral Tom Halsey assigns Doctor Darden, Karx, Franz, and Celeste to study the Anhkana.
* The events of *Majority Rule* take place:
	+ One week before the episode begins, an unnamed friend of Lysella's receives 15 downvotes.
	+ Alara Kitan breaks up with Andy.
	+ A team from the Orville is sent to retrieve the missing anthropologists Tom and Lewis. Only Lewis is found. John undergoes an apology tour and survives Social Correction.
	+ The episode could also take place in early 2420.

## 2420s

### 2420

#### Early 2420

* The events of *Into the Fold* take place:
	+ Isaac, Doctor Finn, and her sons Ty and Marcus, crash on an Habitable Moon. The Orville rescues them a few days later.
	+ Drogen dies.
* The events of *Cupid's Dagger* take place:
	+ Darulio briely joins the Orville to analyze the Lopovian birthing bucket.
	+ Once Darulio joins, the rest of the episode takes place over just a few days.
	+ Once Ed confronts Darulio (intending to kick him off the Orville), results of the DNA tests of the birthing bucket come 36 hours later.
	+ Bruidians and Navarians agree to a truce.

#### March

* Harrison Payne dies.
* The events of *Firestorm* take place.

#### April

* The events of *New Dimensions* take place:
	+ Steve Newton transfers off the Orville to a space station.
		- A good-bye party is held for Steve. Bortus eats prawgus cake with a piece of Yaphit's body; Yaphit retrieves it within an hour.
	+ The Orville is left stranded after a damaging run-in with a pocket of two-dimensional space.
		- Repairs to the ship take two hours, 31 minutes.
			* The Horbalak captain Blavaroch dies one hour, 15 minutes later.
			* The Krill arrive under one hour, 46 minutes later.
	+ John LaMarr is promoted from Navigator to Newton's old position of Chief Engineer.
* Alara tells her sister about the encounter with two-dimensional space.

#### April–May

* The events of *Mad Idolatry* take place over 34 days:
	+ On the first day, Ed plays latchkum with Bortus and Klyden, then grabs a drink with Kelly where they agree to go on a date later that week.
	+ The next day, the Orville discovers a multiphasic planet. Kelly, Gordon, and Isaac crash on the planet. Kelly heals an injured girl, inadvertently creating the Church of Kelly.
		- Because 700 years pass for every 11 days on the Orville, 2,100 years pass on the planet during this episode.
	+ Isaac spends 700 years on the planet.

#### June

* Several weeks after leaving Kandar 1 and one month before *Ja'loja*, the events of *New Beginnings, Pt. 2* take place over the course of two days. *New Beginnings, Pt. 2* takes place over around four days.
	+ On the first day,
		- Isaac states that 48.97 hours remain in his analysis of AXP 1E 1048-59.
		- Ed and Gordon leave for a tactical conference on Outpost 23.
		- Kelly orders Cassius to admit Topa to his class.
	+ On the second day,
		- The tactical conference is held.
		- Isaac states eight hours, 57 minutes remain in his analysis.
		- Ed and Gordon encounter the Chog, including their leader Thoz.
		- Discovery of the BCV *Burton*.
		- Cassius meets Kelly in the Mess Hall late at night.
		- Isaac announces he finished his analysis a few hours early.
		- The Orville learns Ed and Gordon never arrived at Outpost 23.
	+ The Orville rescues Ed and Gordon.
	+ Kelly begins dating Cassius.
	+ Two days later, Ed says the USS *Ulysses* will remove the Chog from their homeworld to a new planet.
* In either June or early July, Kelly takes a two-week vacation.

#### July

* The events of *The Word of Avis, Pt. 1* and *Pt. 2* take place.
* Olix synthesizes a phonograph for the Mess Hall while Ed Mercer plays backgammon with Isaac.
	+ A week later, the events of *Ja'loja* take place over about one week:
		- Kelly Grayson discloses her relationship with Cassius to Ed a month after it started.
		- Janel Tyler joins the Orville as a dark matter cartographer.
		- In the same day,
			* Marcus and James and a third friend disrupt class, hack the Food Synthesizer to synthesize vodka, and get drunk in an Environmental Simulator room. Claire grounds Marcus.
			* That evening, Ed spies on Kelly's and Cassius' date.
			* Alara allows Bortus to set her up with a blind date.
		- The next day, Kelly confronts Ed about spying on her date.
		- Within one week since Janel joined, Bortus has his ja'loja and reception, and Ed meets Janel.

#### August

* Dann learns that he has the same birthday as Ed Mercer.
	+ A week later, the events of *Primal Urges* take place over three days from the initial observation of Nyxia to its destruction by its own star.
		- First contact with the Nyxians takes place two days after initial observation of the planet (or one day before destruction).
		- A shuttle is prepared with less than 10 hours remaining until destruction.
		- The planet breaks up as the rescue shuttle returns. When it docks, the Orville has six minutes remaining before the star destroys the ship as well.

#### September

* The events of *Home* take place:
	+ On a Friday, Alara Kitan and Isaac arm wrestle. Alara breaks her arm.
		- Alara and Isaac have played 31 matches. Gordon Malloy states their arm-wrestling match is a Friday-night tradition. If they arm wrestle once each Friday, they began the tradition in January.
	+ On a later day, Alara returns to Xelaya. The entire time from Alara's arrival at Xelaya to the end of her time at the beach house lasts, at most, "a few days."
		- Tharl joins the Orville as its interim chief of security.
		- One week earlier, Yaphit had his six-month evaluation.
	+ At least one day after arriving at Xelaya, the Kitans go to their beach home.
		- The first day, the caretaker Serris is murdered by Cambis and Floratta Borrin.
		- The next day, the Borrins hold the Kitans hostage.
			* Cambis and Floratta Borrin die.

* Alara decides to stay with her family on Xelaya and leave the Planetary Union.

#### September–October

* The events of *Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes* take place within a single week.
	+ Ed and Janel Tyler are captured by the Krill.
	+ Janel is revealed to be Teleya.
	+ A Chak'tal attack sends Ed and Janel to an uninhabited planet until they are rescued by the Orville.
* A week after the start of *Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes*, Talla Keyali joins the Orville as the ship's new chief of security.

#### October–December

* The Orville detects the Regorian's invitation for first contact.
* The events of *All the World is Birthday Cake* take place over five weeks, from late October to middle or end of November.
	+ Kelly Grayson and Bortus are arrested by the Regorians as Giliacs.
	+ On the following Monday, Bortus spends his birthday in incarceration on Regor 2.
	+ On Tuesday, Kelly spends her birthday in incarceration on Regor 2.
	+ After a month,
		- Regor 2 enters the blessed sign of Wasanda.
		- Kelly and Bortus are released.
		- Regor 2 closes the Giliac camps and releases the prisoners.

#### December

* The events of *A Happy Refrain*:
	+ Claire works on a medical paper and Bortus grows a mustache. That evening, Orville crewmembers attend a piano recital by In.
	+ On the following Thursday, Klyden finds pieces of Bortus' dinner in his mustache.
	+ On Friday, a ship transports the Union Symphony to perform aboard the Orville. That night, Claire and Isaac go on their first date in the Environmental Simulator.
	+ On Saturday, Claire and Isaac recount their date to their crewmates.
	+ On Sunday,
		- 3:14 a.m., Isaac wakes Claire with a cake.
		- 8:00 p.m., Claire meets Isaac in Simulator 2 and they sleep together.

### 2421

#### January

* The events of *Deflectors* take place:
	+ Groogen, a Katrudian, arrives on the Orville with a botanical team.
	+ In the same day:
		- Kelly breaks up with Cassius.
		- Locar, an engineer of the Moclan Fleet, upgrades the Orville's Deflector Screens.
		- The new deflectors are tested successfully against the firepower of Rechik's ship.
		- At night, Locar confides in Talla that he his a heterosexual, a taboo in Moclan society, and is attracted to her.
	+ The following day:
		- Talla takes Locar to the Environmental Simulator, where she teaches him dancing.
		- Klyden confronts Locar in the simulator. Locar programs a fake assassination of himself by Klyden and goes into hiding.
	+ Locar is sentenced to life in prison.
	+ Cassius transfers to the USS *Watson*.
* Orrin Channing steals a Krill shuttle and escapes from the Krill prison camp.
	+ After, Orrin meets an Envall woman at an outpost. They use her blood to destroy Krill ships.
* Isaac spontaneously deactivates, leading Captain Mercer to set a course to return him to his people on Kaylon 1.

#### February

* Isaac is reactivated on Kaylon 1 32.7 cycles later.
* The Kaylon seize the Orville and launch an attack on the Planetary Union.
* The events of *Identity, Pt. 2* take place:
	+ The Union and the Krill defeat the Kaylon at the Battle of Earth.
		- Captain Marcos dies.
		- Six hours pass from initial detection of the USS *Roosevelt* and the start of the Battle of Earth.
		- Isaac emits an electromagnetic pulse which deactivates him. He is reactivated after battle by Yaphit 0.7 cycles later.
		- Loss of the Roosevelt, USS *Quimby*, and CCV *Hawking**.*
* Soon after the Battle of Earth, the Krill and the Union agree to a ceasefire.

#### March

* Over 30 days after the ceasefire signed in February, Orrin destroys three Krill vessels, killing 1,200 and violating the ceasefire.
* One month after the ceasefire, the events of *Blood of Patriots* take place.
	+ Yaphit receives the Sapphire Star.
	+ Admiral Tucker sends the Orville to Tarazed 3 to sign a lak'vai pact with Ambassador K.T.Z. of the *Davoro'kos*.
		- Both ships arrive twelve hours later.
	+ Orrin and Leyna Channing escape to the Orville.
	+ After Orrin boards the Orville and Ambassador K.T.Z. meets with Ed Mercer for the first time, the following takes place within 11 hours and 30 minutes:
		- Orrin and Gordon steal a shuttle with several quantum storage cells containing Leyna's Envall blood. The shuttle explodes killing Orrin at 11 hours and 30 minutes.
		- Death of Orrin.
	+ The Lak'vai Pact of Tarazed 3 is signed.

#### April

* The events of *Lasting Impressions*:
	+ The Saratoga Springs time capsule is discovered on Earth. The Orville takes Doctor Sherman and the time capsule to a museum on Delta Pavonis.
	+ Using a phone from the time capsule once belonging to Laura Huggins, Gordon creates simulation program Laura Alpha.
		- Laura performs at a bar called Dunhill on a Tuesday.
		- From 7:00 to 11:00 PM on a later day, Ed, Kelly, John, and Talla attend a party with Gordon, Laura, and her friends. After they leave, Gordon sleeps with Laura.
		- The next day at 8:30 AM, Gordon is late for his shift.
	+ Bortus and Klyden develop an addiction to Old Earth cigarettes.
		- Klyden gets trapped on an elevator and shakes with nicotine craving. He tells Claire about this the next day.
* Topa's birthday in the Moclan calendar is celebrated by his parents, who give him his first latchkum.
* The events of *Sanctuary*, which take place over a minimum of three days but likely many more.
	+ The Moclan Dockyard upgrades the weapons of all Union vessels, *Exploratory*-class and above. The Orville's upgrade takes one full day.
	+ The Orville takes Toren, Korick, and Mersa from the Dockyard to a transport ship.
	+ Topa gets in trouble for pushing Olivia.
		- The next day, Bortus takes Topa to see Mersa.
	+ The Orville discovers a refuge for Moclan females known as "The Sanctuary." Ed Mercer petitions the Planetary Union Council for a special meeting to recognize The Sanctuary as a sovereign state.
		- Ed and Heveena travel to the Council, a journey of at least 20 to 24 hours.
		- The Battle of the Sanctuary.
		- The Council declines to recognize The Sanctuary in return for Moclus' promise not to interfere with the colony.

#### May

* The events of *Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow*:
	+ Ed and Kelly reminisce over their first date.
	+ On the following day, the Quantum accelerator aboard the Orville transports a version of Kelly from 2414, specifically from the morning after her first date with Ed, to the ship.
	+ Young Kelly is given guest quarters and her old rank of Lieutenant.
	+ Ed goes on a "second date" with young Kelly at Mooska's.
	+ After a few days, a method is devised to return the past Kelly to her own time. Doctor Claire Finn wipes young Kelly's memory, then she is sent back.
		- The memory wipe fails, creating an alternate timeline.

#### July

* The events of *Launch Day, Pt. 1* take place over about one day.
* The events of *Launch Day, Pt. 2* take place over one day.
	+ Launch Day occurs: The Alibar quantum shift their system and eight Krill ships led by Kratok into a new universe.
	+ Kratok and his fleet attack Alibar.

## 2422

* The events of *Electric Sheep*.
	+ Isaac commits suicide, but the crew of the USS *Orville* manages to revive him.
* The events of *Shadow Realms*.
* The events of *Mortality Paradox*.
	+ The species originating from the Multiphasic Planet has experienced approximately 50,000 years worth of time. They have guided their own evolution, becoming immortal beings.
* The events of *Gently Falling Rain*.
	+ Teleya becomes Supreme Chancellor of Krill and executes the previous Supreme Chancellor, Korin. The alliance between Krill and the Planetary Union against the Kaylon is dissolved completely, the two groups resuming a war footing.
* The events of *A Tale of Two Topas*
	+ Topa undergoes surgery, performed by Isaac, to return to her original sex of female. The Moclans are angered, but because the surgery was performed by a Kaylon, it strengthens their resolve to vanquish the species. Klyden leaves Bortus and Topa.
* The events of *Twice in a Lifetime*
	+ New developments are made with the quantum accelerator, allowing a great expansion of its field and for the device to send objects into the past or future. The *Orville* is ordered to Sabik 3 in order for the device to be handed over to a research facility, lest it fall into Kaylon hands. The Kaylon, however, attack, hoping to seize the device. In the process, Gordon Malloy is accidentally transported to 2015. The crew of the *Orville* attempt to travel back to retrieve him, but end up in 2025 and discover that he has started a family. When he refuses to return to the future, they travel again to 2015 and retrieve him there.
* The events of *From Unknown Graves*.
* The events of *Midnight Blue*.
	+ Nearly a year following the Battle of the Sanctuary, Moclus is expelled from the Planetary Union.
* The events of the "present-day" portion of *Sympathy for the Devil*
* The events of *Domino*.
	+ Over a year following the Battle of Earth, the Battle of Draconis 427 is fought. Charly Burke is killed in action. She had served aboard the *Orville* for 257 days, 17 minutes and 49 seconds. The Kaylons are granted provisional membership into the Planetary Union.
* The events of *Future Unknown*.
	+ Bortus and Klyden renew their wedding vows.
	+ Claire Finn is wed to Isaac.
	+ It is three months since Gordon Malloy sent forward a sandwich using the quantum accelerator in *Twice in a Lifetime*.

## 2423

* The Planetary Union, led by the USS *Ulysses*, is projected to finish terraforming the Chog homeworld by this year.

## 2431

* Following an upgrade by John LaMarr in 2421, the power storage capacity of the mobile phone belonging to the late Laura Huggins is projected to last to this year. Doctor Sherman predicts that the data within will only be completely analyzed by this year at the earliest.

## 26th century

* In the early 26th century, an elderly Ty Finn visits a bakery established by a man named Adam Collier who was once helped by the crew of the Orville, particularly his mother Claire, and purchases bread.

## 29th century

* A stable wormhole is discovered leading to other time periods.
* Pria Lavesque is born.
* Captured Amelia Earhart lives the remainder of her life.
* A Benzian antiques collector negotiates for the price of the Orville.

## c. 3015

* In 2015, Laura Huggins suggested that the Saratoga Springs time capsule would be unearthed in this year. In fact, it was discovered just short of 600 years prematurely.

## c. 5,000,000,000

* Earth is projected to be destroyed as the Sun changes into a red supergiant.

## Notes

1. ↑ Based on Darulio's analysis of the artifact. Episode 1x09: Cupid's Dagger
2. ↑ Isaac states in November 2420 that the star became a black hole 3,122 years prior. Episode 2x05: All the World is Birthday Cake
3. ↑ Based on Isaac's analysis of the hull.
4. ↑ Based on her evident age by the year 2015 in Episode 2x11: Lasting Impressions.
5. ↑ In the year 2015, Laura tells Gordon that she dated Greg for nine years. Episode 2x11: Lasting Impressions
6. ↑ Date and time are revealed on the screen of Laura's phone. Episode 2x11: Lasting Impressions
7. ↑ Laura tells Gordon that Saratoga Springs will bury the time capsule *next* week.
8. ↑ One of the items shown to be in the time capsule is a copy of the album *25* by Adele; the CD wasn't released until November 2015, implying that the time capsule was not buried until some time after Huggins donated her phone.
9. ↑ Rop is 107 years old in Episode 1.5x02: New Beginnings, Pt. 2.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 The character was written specifically for the actor or actress. Therefore, the age listed in the original script is reliable. *See* Seth MacFarlane, "Orville - Pilot", Fox (2016).
11. ↑ In Episode 2x10: Blood of Patriots, it is noted that Orrin and Gordon are about the same age, having been friends since grade school.
12. ↑ Ock'or has been in the Calivon zoo for 31 years as of Episode 1x02: Command Performance.
13. ↑ In Episode 2x03: Home, Cambis Borrin states that his son just turned 30 while speaking as if he is still alive. Note also that because Episode 2x03: Home must take place in September 2420, Galdus Harona must have been born in August or September when Cambis says that his birthday was "just last week."
14. ↑ Alara is 23 years old in Episode 1x01: Old Wounds.
15. ↑ Kitan's mother says that the fire happened eight months after her birth.
16. ↑ Isaac states in July 2421 that Alibar seceded 20.7 years ago, which would be December 2400. Episode 2.5x01: Launch Day, Pt. 1
17. ↑ Torena nd Korich have been joined for nine years as of *Sanctuary*.
18. ↑ Bortus and Klyden have been joined for six and a half years as of Episode 1x03: About a Girl.
19. ↑ Ed and Kelly's relationship has a serious discrepancy in timelines.
Ed Mercer tells young Kelly Grayson he is sorry for what he is "about to do [to her] over the next five years." Because their divorce must occur in late 2418, that places their meeting in 2413 at the latest. (Note that this corresponds with the non-canonical notes of the original script of Episode 1x01: Old Wounds, which states that the two were married for four years.)
However, Episode 2x13: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow frequently states that younger Kelly is seven years younger than older Kelly. Because the episode must occur in 2421, a strict interpretation means they met in 2414.
As of Season 2, there are two possible interpretations of the timeline, either with equal validity:
The first interpretation is that young Kelly is seven years and several months younger than old Kelly, and the crew rounded the figure to seven. This means Ed and Kelly met in 2413, married probably in 2414, and divorced in 2418 for a total of five years.
The second interpretation is that Ed rounded four years and several months to five. This means Ed and Kelly met in 2414, married probably the same year, and divorced in 2418 for a total of four-years-and-several-months.
20. ↑ Based on the fact that Alara tells her father, Ildis Kitan, that "a trip to the beach house won't fix 20 years," implying that she lived with him for 20 years. Episode 2x03: Home
21. ↑ Finding a recreation of his robe in the Calivon zoo, Ed notes that he hasn't seen it in two years. (Episode 1x02: Command Performance)
22. ↑ First Prefect: "Yet here you are just a few years later." Episode 2x05: All the World is Birthday Cake
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Kelly states that the affair actually occurred at night in Episode 2x13: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. The scene in Episode 1x01: Old Wounds, where Ed catches them fooling around in bed, is probably the morning-after.
24. ↑ After March, 2420, Grayson again says that a year has passed since the affair. Episode 1x11: New Dimensions
25. ↑ Sometime between January and March of 2420, Grayson says that her affair with Darulio was "a year ago." For that comment to make sense (meaning not to exceed the two year mark), her affair must have been in April or after of 2418.
26. ↑ In *Episode 2x01: Ja'loja*, set in mid-to-late 2420, John reveals to Gordon that he was in a relationship with a Keribex "last year" (2419). As John and Gordon met aboard the *Orville* in Episode 1x01: Old Wounds, set on September 10th, the relationship must have begun and ended prior to then.
27. ↑ In September 2420, Cambis Borrin states that Galdus Harona "died last year." Episode 2x03: Home
28. ↑ Gordon says that he dated a woman for five months while on suspension on Earth, Episode 2x01: Ja'loja, and his suspension ended in September 2419, Episode 1x01: Old Wounds. Therefore, this must have occurred on March 2419 or before - not after.
29. ↑ Conjectural placement based on Darulio's account that he has been digging on Lopovius for six months. *Cupid's Dagger**.*
30. ↑ Episode 2x03: Home indicates that Alara joined at the same time as Ed and the others.
31. ↑ As part of Ed Mercer's forced ruse informing Bortus that Epsilon 2 is hosting a pizza party for an office birthday, he adds that there is a "lot of September birthdays down here." Episode 1x01: Old Wounds
32. ↑ Exact date found in the 2017 Television Critics Association press kit.
33. ↑ When Bortus tells Ed Mercer that Krill soldiers are headed to the station, Ed replies, "God, there's no way we're gonna be out by 5:00 today, are we?". Episode 1x01: Old Wounds
34. ↑ Kelly Grayson: "You've kind of kept to yourself these last few days." Episode 1x01: Old Wounds
35. ↑ Based on the gestation period of Bortus' egg. Episode 1x02: Command Performance
36. ↑ Bortus notes that the *Orville's* trip to Moclus takes two weeks. Episode 1x03: About a Girl
37. ↑ In Episode 1x08: Into the Fold, Isaac states that it takes the Orville weeks to traverse 1,000 light years. This episode establishes that the bioship is 1,000 light years from Earth, so the trip likely consumed the entire month of November.
38. ↑ As Bridge shifts are established in Episode 2x11: Lasting Impressions to begin at 8:00 a.m., that means Episode 1x04: If the Stars Should Appear starts at 7:00.
39. ↑ Ed Mercer says the away team will rendezvous in three hours at 1300 hours. Episode 1x04: If the Stars Should Appear
40. ↑ Contact with Lewis and Tom was lost a month ago.
41. ↑ A freshly severed human head is presented as having been captured at Chara 3, suggesting it to be recent.
42. ↑ "How long until it collides with the planet?" "One month, 17 days." Episode 1x03: About a Girl
43. ↑ John LaMarr notes that Alara Kitan has gone through two guys in two months. Episode 1x07: Majority Rule
44. ↑ Once the Orville learns that Isaac and the Finns did not arrive at Arboreus Prime, the rest of the episode takes place in less than two days. This can be established because John LaMarr says the navigational array upgrade will take two days, and the Orville had to locate Isaac and the Finns without it. Episode 1x08: Into the Fold
45. ↑ Multiple characters say Retepsian pheromones take "a few days" to wear off, which means only a few days pass from Darulio's arrival to departure. Note that the pheromones had not yet worn off of the ambassadors by the episode's end. Episode 1x09: Cupid's Dagger
46. ↑ Ed notes that his first meeting with Alara in Episode 1x01: Old Wounds occurred six months ago. Episode 1x10: Firestorm
47. ↑ Isaac initially estimated time to intercept as 31 minutes later, but later revises that, saying the Krill increased speed and time to intercept being 16 minutes away. However, we do not know how much time elapsed between the first and second estimates. Episode 1x11: New Dimensions
48. ↑ The episode starts the day before discovering a Kandar 1. After discovery, the Orville visits the planet four times, separated by 3 intervals of 11 days each for a total of 33 days. Episode 1x12: Mad Idolatry
49. ↑ Isaac estimates 48 hours in Episode 1.5x01: New Beginnings, Pt. 1 and completes his analysis several hours under his estimation in Episode 1.5x02: New Beginnings, Pt. 2.
50. ↑ Cassius states around December 2420 or January 2421 that Kelly has not had a vacation in six months. It is also mentioned that such vacations last two weeks. Episode 2x07: Deflectors
51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 Gordon Malloy states that he has had a really bad week, which seems to have started since Janel Tyler joined because he never worked up the courage to ask her out. Episode 2x01: Ja'loja
52. ↑ Solana Kitan states that she planned to visit for only a few days. That means the beach-house excursion could not be longer. Episode 2x03: Home
53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 The new Security Chief is scheduled to arrive next week. Episode 2x04: Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes
54. ↑ Note that in this episode, Talla Keyali acknowledges that she still hasn't been on the *Orville* "that long."
55. ↑ In Episode 2x10: Blood of Patriots, Orrin Channing claims to have escaped from prison six weeks prior.
56. ↑ Date can also be February 2421.
57. ↑ Episode 2x08: Identity, Pt. 1 opens with Doctor Claire Finn announcing her relationship with Isaac to her children, hinting that not much time passed since the conclusion of Episode 2x06: A Happy Refrain.
58. ↑ Kaylon Primary: "In six hours, we will approach your Solar system." Episode 2x09: Identity, Pt. 2
59. ↑ The events of Episode 2x10: Blood of Patriots must take place at least a full month after the Battle of Earth because Ed Mercer says the ceasefire has lasted 30 days.
60. ↑ Ambassador K.T.Z. says that there are 12 hours remaining before his ship leaves, and a lak'vai pact must be signed within that window. However, it is also stated that Orrin and Gordon's shuttle explodes with 30 minutes remaining, meaning that the events transpire over 11 hours and 30 minutes. Episode 2x10: Blood of Patriots
61. ↑ In a deleted scene from Episode 2x11: Lasting Impressions, Bortus and Klyden agree to get Topa a latchkum for his upcoming birthday. Falling in 2421, around October, this would evidently be Topa's 2nd birthday. However, it should be noted that the Moclan calendar system and its relation to our own remains unknown.
62. ↑ In Episode 2x14: The Road Not Taken, Kelly states that she was temporally displaced to "what would have been six months ago". Episode 2x14: The Road Not Taken takes place "less than nine months" following an alternate Battle of Earth, which takes place in February 2421.
63. ↑ Kratok says that 12 months have passed since *The Word of Avis, Pt. 2*. Ozawa says that the mission to Alibar will last only two days, and the mission in this issue covers the first day.
64. ↑ Pria Lavesque: "We found a stable wormhole in the 29th century." Episode 1x05: Pria
65. ↑ Isaac: "Earth's sun will not become a red supergiant for another five billion years, Commander. You will be long deceased and forgotten."

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Artifacts, Pt. 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Episode 1.5x03: The Word of Avis, Pt. 1
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Episode 2x09: Identity, Pt. 2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Episode 2x06: A Happy Refrain
5. ↑ Episode 1x11: New Dimensions
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Episode 1x05: Pria
7. ↑ Episode 2x07: Deflectors
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Episode 1x02: Command Performance
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Episode 2x03: Home
10. ↑ Episode 2x04: Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Episode 1x03: About a Girl
12. ↑ *Episode 1x04: If the Stars Should Appear*
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 Episode 1.5x02: New Beginnings, Pt. 2
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Episode 2x02: Primal Urges
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 Episode 1.5x01: New Beginnings, Pt. 1
16. ↑ 16.00 16.01 16.02 16.03 16.04 16.05 16.06 16.07 16.08 16.09 16.10 Episode 2x10: Blood of Patriots
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Episode 1x01: Old Wounds
18. ↑ Episode 2.5x01: Launch Day, Pt. 1
19. ↑ Episode 1x12: Mad Idolatry
20. ↑ Ten years prior to *From Unknown Graves*.
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 Episode 2x13: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Episode 2x14: The Road Not Taken
23. ↑ Episode 1x10: Firestorm
24. ↑ Episode 2x01: Ja'loja
25. ↑ Episode 2x05: All the World is Birthday Cake
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Episode 2x08: Identity, Pt. 1
27. ↑ Episode 2x11: Lasting Impressions deleted scene
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Episode 2x11: Lasting Impressions
29. ↑ *Sympathy for the Devil*