This is the main enemy of the Orville's second season, episodes 8 and 9, a robotic ship that wants to exterminate all organic life.
This similar ship structure in the eighth episode trailer.
And at the end of the seventh episode, the robot crew member on the Discovery was invaded by a similar "virus".
This does not make me guess, the biggest villain of the second season of Discovery is also a robot civilization, which also wants to destroy all organisms.
If that's the case, then, who's to say that the Orville next door is a copycat Star Trek? Maybe this is a huge joke made by the writers and directors of the two dramas~
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