Yeah, I thought so too when I watched Orville. I love how the writers on that show decided to make things super relevant to what's going on today. It might not be something you enjoy watching a decade from now, but for now it's good.
TBH, don't watch much network TV. Mostly I live on Netflix or Amazon. Not sure if the more recent Star Trek's have made it there. I think I saw one of the early episodes of Enterprise where the translator took a language she'd never heard and just translated it on the fly...was a bit much for me. Too much suspension of disbelief. But the rest of it looked cool :)
Agree on Orville, some nice topical stuff. Well done and I've been pleasantly surprised by some episodes. They'll go a direction that TNG would never have gone.
Ah yes, those pre-universal translator shenanigans :D :P