I wasn’t being literal. Seth McFarlane had originally pitched an official Star Trek show, and afterward created The Orville. Both franchises feature mostly human crews of exploratory ships in an intergalactic alien federation dealing with social conflict, politics, alien threats, spatial anomalies and time travel shenanigans.

The Orville is directly inspired and very often an homage to Star Trek, but has built enough of its own universe to tell stories entirely unique to their characters.

They’re sci-fi peas in a pod.