exploratory ship

But in a noteworthy twist, MacFarlane will also star in the as yet untitled, hourlong, live-action series, which is set 300 years in the future aboard the Orville, "a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar Fleet."

"And you're saying that these virus-creatures came here after the exploratory ship had come and gone?"

But when they tried to invade the unintelligent creatures the exploratory ship found here, they discovered that the new host's body couldn't tolerate them.

This was filed by a routine exploratory ship that came here eight hundred years ago.

Following this was a long, detailed and exceedingly dull description of the step-by-step procedure followed by a Confederation exploratory ship making a first landing on a barren planet.