Hope for The Orville, Season 3

I just finished watching the last three episodes of The Orville's second season and very much enjoyed them. If you're not familiar with The Orville, it's a science fiction show on Fox, very much in the spirit of the original Star Trek. I liked it much more than CBS' Star Trek reboot, Star Trek: Discovery, although the ending of the second season gave me some hope that the show might improve.

I did have some trouble getting past The Orville's comedic element, but it's much preferable to Discovery's dreary seriousness.

I'm hoping that Fox will renew The Orville for a third season. io9 has an article listing what they'd like to see in the next season, and I agree with most of it, except for the musical episode. Here's one point, about the villains.

The Kaylon, whose goal is to annihilate all biological life in the universe, will certainly return if there’s a season three. We’ve visited their homeworld, we’ve seen what their well-armed ships can do (not to mention the guns that pop out of their heads), and the season two finale showed us what the universe might look like if their plan came close to completion. But what will their next move be, other than just showing back up and trying to take out the Orville again? And how will the show use Isaac in a different way than it did in season two, which saw him cruelly betraying his crewmates (including Claire, who was kinda his girlfriend at the time) before he realized he couldn’t allow his fellow Kaylons to succeed?

The Orvilles’ other big bad, the Krill, signed a peace treaty with the Planetary Union after fighting alongside humans in the battle against the Kaylon above Earth. But it’s a tentative agreement with a war-obsessed race that will no doubt hit some snags as time passes. The Orville has already had a plot very similar to one seen on Star Trek: Discovery, in which a Krill disguised herself as a human as part of a revenge scheme, but let’s hope The Orville doesn’t take any further inspiration from Trek, at least when it comes to the show’s recent, specific villains. That means no Harry Mudd equivalent, no riffs on Section 31, and no mirror universe. Please!