I'm a doctor. My expertise is in biology. This is more like fixing an engine.

Finn

[Oonach-4] is off limits because the people are nightmarish. They capture outsiders and then sacrifice them to a raccoon god by methodically dismembering them.

Mercer

Grayson: My concern is completely unemotional, trust me. You can bang that chick on your kitchen sink for all I care.
Mercer: I don't ever do it near the food. You know that.

What, do you think she crashed her own ship just so she could come here and do free laundry?

Mercer

Mercer: Did you read her diary too?
Grayson: No, we couldn't find it.

Yaphit: Y'know, this may sound blunt but you are the only white woman I've ever found attractive.
Levesque: Well, you're the handsomist pile of cat puke I've ever seen.

Captain, respectfully submit that the attractiveness of the ship's occupant makes the rescue imperative.

Malloy

Space is vast. And very dark. And very lonely

Durall

Hamelac: You are more resilient than you look.
Grayson: I've been through a divorce. This is nothing.

Some people refuse to accept an irrefutable truth simply because that truth puts them in the wrong.

Kemka

When I imagine the person I'd fall in love with, the person that could bring me so much happiness that I'd want us to spend the rest of our lives together...god, it just makes me want to kill myself

Malloy

Mercer: We don't mean your family any harm.
Finn: Well, we did just shoot his dad.
Mercer: Aside from shooting your dad, we don't mean your family any harm

The Orville Season 1 Quotes

Mercer: I know Gordon has his issues but we all know that there's nobody that can drive a starship like him.
Admiral: Didn't he once draw a penis on the main viewing screen of Outpost T-85?
Mercer: He's drawn a lot of penises on a lot of things.

Mercer: I've had some personal stuff that's been going on... It's not really worth going into... Can I have one of these mints?
Admiral: Those are marbles.