Black Mirror Returns With A USS Callister Sequel, But Star Trek Is No Longer The Main Target
This post contains spoilers for "Black Mirror" season 7.
Despite being known for its creepy shared universes and slyly placed connective Easter eggs, "Black Mirror" has never actually delivered a true sequel episode until this week. Season 7, the latest chapter of Charlie Brooker's long-running dystopian anthology show, ends its mixed-bag run with a clearly branded, feature film length sequel: "U.S.S. Callister: Into Infinity."
A follow-up to season 4's "Star Trek" homage "U.S.S. Callister," the new chapter picks up about a year and a half after its events, filling in any gaps our memories might have of the original episode (which somehow aired eight years ago) with plenty of mini-flashbacks and exposition. The sequel immediately reunites most of the crew of the Callister, a virtual spaceship designed by incel programmer Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons) for the purpose of terrorizing and exploiting digital versions of his coworkers while...
Despite being known for its creepy shared universes and slyly placed connective Easter eggs, "Black Mirror" has never actually delivered a true sequel episode until this week. Season 7, the latest chapter of Charlie Brooker's long-running dystopian anthology show, ends its mixed-bag run with a clearly branded, feature film length sequel: "U.S.S. Callister: Into Infinity."
A follow-up to season 4's "Star Trek" homage "U.S.S. Callister," the new chapter picks up about a year and a half after its events, filling in any gaps our memories might have of the original episode (which somehow aired eight years ago) with plenty of mini-flashbacks and exposition. The sequel immediately reunites most of the crew of the Callister, a virtual spaceship designed by incel programmer Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons) for the purpose of terrorizing and exploiting digital versions of his coworkers while...
- 4/10/2025
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
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