News Black Mirror Trek-Themed Episode

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A fourth season episode of the science-fiction series Black Mirror will parody Star Trek. Black Mirror is a “sci-fi anthology series” that...

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[Forbin]

Excellent! No series has ever done a Trek parody episode before!

 

[Ethros]

Feels like they've been teasing this new series of Black Mirror for about 8 years. Just tell us the actual release date Netflix, that's all we need to know

 

[ISS-Magnum]

Imagine, three-sided cold war between the Orville fans, Discovery fans and Callister fans.

 

[Tenacity]

Oh no, not the insidious bizarre looking gun or laser.

 

[MrPointy]

December 29th premiere apparently.

Imagine, three-sided cold war between the Orville fans, Discovery fans and Callister fans.

If the reviews of Black Mirror S4 I've seen are accurate, Callister may make both those shows look bad.

 

[Mudd]

Not a chance, sorry.

Star Trek and The Orville are space opera TV series. This is a very different kind of show, and they're not interested in doing space opera but in using the formulas and tropes for one week to pull off a different kind of story with a twist.

This is like suggesting that the old Twilight Zone episodes using all the Forbidden Planet costumes and props were comparable in any way to the movie. It's apples and oranges.

Did The Outer Limits make Dragnet "look bad?" Did the episode of CSI about the space opera TV series revival that led to murder at a science fiction convention make Battlestar Galactica "look bad?"
Meaningless comparisons, and the same is true here.

 

[Forbin]

They'll never beat the Trek convention spoof episode of She-Wolf of London!!

 

[tharpdevenport]

I watched the trailer for this a day or two ago. My reaction: PASS.

 

[ISS-Magnum]

Well, it was some really weird stuff.

 

[GNDN18]

Spoilery review from The Atlantic.

Spoiler

Parts of it sound like a first-season D. C. Fontana story.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ever since "White Christmas," I hoped Black Mirror would return to the Cookie technology, and while the Infinity module isn't the same thing, the principal is the same: Genetic duplicates of people that exist as AIs and are put to work against their will in a separate world. Add elements from Star Trek, Futurama, and other spacefaring shows, and you get a typically twisted episode of Black Mirror. I loved every minute of it.

 

[Markonian]

Loved but it was really scary!
The ship and uniforms are cool, and we got a lot of Space Fleet in-universe hints. USS Callister lacks a registry number and is a Space Fleet ship serving the Federation. Lieutenant Elena’s blue species is not identified by name, but the Gorgan ship joins the space-name club of Vogons, Vorgons and Zorgons.

We have the omnicorder instead of the tricorder.
Uniform code: command red, science blue and operations yellow/gold. The navigator is part of the science department. The first officer wears blue but might not be the chief science officer.

 

[Skipper]

I watched the trailer for this a day or two ago. My reaction: PASS.

Because..?

 

[E-DUB]

I enjoyed it. The modeler in me would like some decent images of the ship. This, along with the Orville, the Protector, and a few others are Non-ST ships that would exist without Trek.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I forgot to mention that I loved the Aaron Paul cameo at the end.