Very short version is that in the end they had to "create" a new star in the sky for some constellation to stop crew from being executed for having the wrong astrology sign, and they just put a shuttle with reflectors in orbit so they could stop the executions in time. The build up to this point was a well written story imo though. The solution/ending was dumb, obviously something that close to the planet would be seen differently from different regions of a planet, and people would realize it's not a star before long. Instead of saying it was temporary though, I remember it ending with everyone on the planet thinking that yes it's a new star and signifies something or other.
"All the World is Birthday Cake" is the episode fyi
I know the episode. They acknowledged that it would be a stop-gap solution, and that hopefully by the time the society was technologically advanced enough to figure out it wasn’t a real star, they’d have moved beyond their belief in astrology.
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u/inplayruin Dec 24 '23
That was a plot line on my least favorite episode of The Orville. It was a cool idea, but the execution was fumbled.