Interesting 'What would YOU Do?'s- & Fan Theory-in an episode of *The Orville*

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In an episode of Seth MacFarlane's 'version of STAR TREK' The Orville (maybe it's technically The Orville: New Horizons or something), helmsman Gordon Malloy gets sent hundreds of years into the past. Though there are "Temporal Laws" (things you cannot do if you go into the past---forbidden actions that may destroy the timeline that you came from), Gordon--though he managed to send The Orville a message telling them when to come back to get him--decides (after 3 years of 'being careful to avoid "butterflies"') to go find a girl he'd fallen in love-with, marry her, and have a few kids. The main officers of The Orville manage to make it back to pick up Gordon, but not until 10 years into his 'life in The Past'---when he & his wife have already had one kid and have another baby on the way. In kind of a mean twist, the Orville-officers then find him and--when he tells them he's staying in the past--they turn and go back ten more years to 'take him out of the past' before his wife meets him, falls in love & starts having his kids. After the Orville-officers leave Gordon's past-house (and before we find out that they've GONE back ten years & 'corrected the timeline' by "rescuing" Gordon & bringing him back to the future), there's a scene where Gordon tells his pregnant wife & their son that 'their love is stronger than time.' (The wife was a girl whom Gordon had met & fallen in love with through a series of recordings she had stored in a time-capsule The Planetary Union had dug up, recordings that Gordon had used to create a holographic simulation of the woman and her 21st-century home-settings.) https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline I'm sure you can imagine some fan-theories arising from that. I can; I imagine Gordon Malloy is actually a descendant of one of the children he had in that alternate timeline (where his ancestor actually crossed timelines to bring Gordon into existence---kinda like John Connor wouldn't exist unless he had sent Kyle Reese to the past to become his father (in the TERMINATOR-movies)). Any other theories (about The Orville's temporalities)?