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[The Orville] Where are the civilisations of The Orville-verse on the Kardashev Scale? Relatively close to each other and or their Star Trek parallels? Or are there some outliers?

To clarify for those not in the know, the Kardashev Scale is a measure of a civilisation's evolution based on their energy needs, energy collection methods and other cosmological control they do or do not possess.

Type 0 is for civilisations establishing themselves through agriculture, industrialisation, expansion and technological innovations. Energy acquisition and use is crude and inefficient. Current Earth's human race is suggested by some, like Carl Sagan, to be around 0.7 on the scale.

Type 1 is for civilisations capable of harnessing and controlling energy on a planetary basis. Travel between solar system planets is common, but exoplanetary excursions and colonisation attempts are extremely far-fetched at this point.

Type 2 is for civilisations capable of harnessing and controlling energy around that of a solar system or more specifically, that of a star. Interplanetary travel and colonisation of home galaxy worlds, typically.

Type 3 is for civilisations able to harness and control energy output on a galactic scale. Travel across galaxies, collecting energy on a level equivalent to multiple stars, and intergalactic colonisation spread is commonplace for a Type 3 civilisation.

Type 4 is considered to be essentially universal, a civilisation at this level is able to make use of any and all energy on a universal scale. There's not much a Type 4 civilisation can't achieve within the bounds of the universe, with some degree of spacial control/wormhole manipulation or super FTL technology in play to enable rapid cross-universe travel and colonisation to take place.

It can get rather silly-buggers going beyond the 4 generally accepted Types of Kardashev Scale civilisations. Some people theorise a Type 5 (Multiversal), Type 6 (Megaversal), and Type 7 (Omniversal) civilisation could exist, but honestly at that point you're really muddying the waters of what plays into what, and what is even conceivable after universal tier.
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2 in the Orville and Star Trek is 2 possibly trending towards 3 depending on how far ahead in the canon you want to go. In TNG they were amazed by a Dyson sphere but they may have analyzed it. They don’t seem to have the need to harness whole stars as matter replicators do a lot of the heavy lifting.