Good as it can be, Star Trek is imperfect. One of the recurring flaws, visible in every series from TOS to ENT, and appearing in fan fiction and horrible fraudulent cash-grabs like STD, is explained succinctly in the video below:
“The Orville” is also imperfect. But as the video below shows, it can be dayum pretty. Unrealistic space battles are nothing new in sci-fi TV; Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine certainly had their share of memorable ones. But the advances in computer tech, as well s paying-attention-tech, means that this space battle has something a lot of the previous ones didn’t: shiploads of debris. there’s still pew-pew sounds in space, lasers you can see and ships violating Newtonian physics in order to bank and dodge like fighter jets, but it sure does look purty. And that is a win: nobody is watching the Orville for hard sci-fi, but to be entertained.