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Black Mirror – 4×01 – USS Callister Directed by Toby Haynes Written by William Bridges Guest Stars: Jesse Plemons (Robert Daly), Cristin Milioti (Nanette Cole), Jimmi Simpson (Walton), Michaela Coel (Shania), Aaron Paul (Gamer691) There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Jason Allen and Joe Heiser as we discuss the 1st episode of season four of Black Mirror: USS Callister. Could Black Mirror 's "USS Callister" Get a Spinoff? There might be more life in the Netflix episode from season four of Black Mirror. Space is no longer the final frontier for television, with Star Trek: Discovery and The Orville both having successful first seasons during the 2017- 2018 TV season—and they might be joined by another space-set show if those involved with Black Mirror have their way. The fourth season of Netflix's Black Mirror kicked off with "USS Callister," an episode starring Jesse Plemons , Crisitin Milioti , Jimmi Simpson , Michaela Coel , Billy Mangussen , Milanka Brooks , Osy Ikhile and Paul G. Raymond , written by series creator Charlie Brooker and William Bridges . Half set in a fantasy world where Plemons' character commands digital copies of his coworkers on a space ship and the other half taking place in the real world, a technology company, the episode was a critical success for the new season. It ends with Milioti's characters (digital and real) successful in saving the day. Her digital character lives on to command the space ship as it explores the newly formed digital world. Director Toby Haynes thinks there's life left in the premise and cast to tell more tales with a Black Mirror spinoff. "I was talking with Louise Sutton , who produced this and ‘Metalhead,' and she cooked up a brilliant idea of spinning it off into a TV series. I'd love to do a TV series of ‘USS Callister'— it's probably one of the best pilots for a space show, ever. And I made it! So I'm keen to see it as a TV series," Haynes told The Hollywood Reporter. "I think Charlie might revisit it as a Black Mirror. Whether I'm the one to do it, I don't know. Being a fan of the show as much as I am, and being a part of making it, I'd love to work with that crew and cast again. It's a gift for a director." Milioti is down for revisiting her character Nanette Cole and the USS Callister as well, in fact she told THR they discussed it while filming. "I would die if they turned this into a spinoff series because I do want to see that group of people figure it out, because it's so real. They're very funny and very dysfunctional, but it's also a group of coworkers from an office—it's like The Office in space," she said. "They're stuck in this thing they didn't even create and they would just have to battle aliens. It's such an incredible concept. Maybe that's wishful thinking on my part, but I would love to see that." 'Black Mirror' References Sci-Fi Deeper than 'Star Trek' in "USS Callister" One famous short story is probably the true inspiration. In terms of imagery and obvious science fiction homage, the new Black Mirror episode “USS Callister” is easily the most evocative because of its clear Star Trek vibe. And yet, there’s perhaps an even more interesting ‘60s science fiction inspiration that isn’t Trek. Thematically and tonally, everything about “USS Callister” has more in common with one extremely famous sci-fi short story. And its author — coincidently or not — also wrote for the original Star Trek. Spoilers for Black Mirror season 4, “USS Callister” ahead. Once the actual premise of “USS Callister” is revealed, the concept seems to be a pastiche of Harlan Ellison’s short story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.” And that’s because the concept — people are tortured inside of a computer program and denied the ability to die — is strikingly similar in both narratives. Plus, there’s even one really big moment in “USS Callister” in which a character has their mouth taken away and is, in fact, unable to scream. “USS Callister” isn’t really a script that loves Star Trek. If anything, the premise attacks not only the some of the sexism of the original series but also the fandom, too. Outside of being a meditation on the nature of true consciousness (is a digital clone of “you” actually alive?) the script also skewers how escapism in extremely popular fandoms actually has a dark side: fantasies can create pathological and psychotic behavior. Cleverly, “USS Callister,” initially invites the viewer to sympathize with its central character, Robert Daley (Jesse Plemons), an extremely successful coder who is underappreciated and abused in his professional life. Though responsible for helping build a media empire, Daley is a shrinking introvert in his office, belittled by his business partner and non-geek, Walton (Jimmi Simpson.) In the evenings, Daley takes solace in his own immersive virtual reality version of “Space Fleet,” in which he is a courageous Captain surrounded by a loyal crew, all of whom happen to have counterparts in the real world. In the “Space Fleet” fantasy, Walton is subservient to Daley, not the other way around. At first, though it seems creepy, Daley’s fantasy life doesn’t seem sinister. Until it gets sinister as fuck. Daley hasn’t just programmed the people in his simulation to do what he wants, these digital copies of Walton and his other co-workers are totally self-aware. Though they possess all the memories of the biological counterparts, these digital clones have no genitalia and cannot die. We learn all of this when Daley digitally clones a new girl in his office, Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti) and she is integrated into his “Space Fleet” crew. When the digital clones don’t do what Daley wants, he tortures them. Sometimes, this means he removes their faces. Other times, he’ll transform the offending subject into a hideous monster while the others watch in terror. Which is where the Ellison connection comes in. In “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” a malevolent A.I called the Allied Mastercomputer tortures five people in an endless variety of ways, each more gruesome than the last. One of the ways in which this torture manifests itself in the story is toward the end, when one of the main characters — after saving his companions — is transformed into a gelatinous mass incable of speech, and also incapable of death. “AM has altered me for his own peace of mind I suppose,” Ellison writes. “He doesn’t want me to run at full speed into a computer bank and smash my skull. Or hold my breath till I faint.” In “USS Callister,” the digital clones are desperate to die, and frequently talk about how they’ve tried to kill themselves, but can’t. Daley has programmed everything so they are forced to live. In 1966, Ellison also wrote perhaps the most famous episode of the original Star Trek ever, “The City on the Edge of Forever,” a script which, to this day, he still feels was compromised when filmed. Interestingly, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” was written around the same time, as it was originally published in IF: Worlds of Science Fiction in 1967. Ellison also wrote for one of the spiritual ancestors of Black Mirror , the original Outer Limits , in 1964 where one of his time-travel plots later — and controversially — inspired The Terminator . All of this isn’t to say Black Mirror is rip-offing of Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.” The evil mastermind in “USS Callister” is human, not a self-aware computer program running amok. The details of the plot are also completely different. And yet, it feels like this episode is tipping its hat to Ellison in more than one way. It sneakily updates his famous premise with contemporary sci-fi plot devices but also takes a jab or two at Star Trek and the culture around it. Over the years, Ellison has had a tempestuous relationship with his Trek fame, and once said that “everyone pissed in my script,” in reference to his feelings about the way in which Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, handled rewrites. “USS Callister” isn’t necessarily the revenge of Harlan Ellison, but if you squint through the looking glass a certain way, you love the acerbic, razor-sharp science fiction prose of the ‘60s, and reread “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” after watching this episode, it certainly starts to feel that way. Either way, “USS Callister,” is definitely not a Star Trek parody. It’s more like a stern warning for the show’s older fans to not take their enthusiasm too far. Black Mirror Season 4 is streaming now on Netflix. Black Mirror 's 'USS Callister' Is Much More Than a Star Trek Parody. The first episode of the Netflix show’s fourth season finds a new angle on tech horror through sci-fi satire. Sophie Gilbert and David Sims will be discussing the new season of Netflix’s Black Mirror , considering alternate episodes. The reviews contain spoilers; don’t read further than you’ve watched. See all of their coverage here . When Black Mirror ’s third season premiered in late 2016, it began with “Nosedive,” a wrenchingly comical episode about the horrors of a connected world, where every interaction or transaction with another person is rated and judged on social media. Its fourth season begins with an opposite horror: a hermetically sealed world, disconnected from the rest of the internet, a sci-fi fantasy perversely controlled by one man. In “Nosedive,” escaping the online universe was the goal; in “USS Callister,” it’s the opposite. Credit to the show’s creator, Charlie Brooker (who co-wrote this episode with William Bridges): He can conjure nightmares from anywhere. What I liked most about “USS Callister,” which makes for an exceptionally strong start to this new season, was the nasty, winking twist of its set- up. Our sad-sack protagonist, Robert Daly has the profile of a misunderstood nice guy. He’s an unheralded genius at his job, where he created an online gaming world that his publicity-minded boss Walton (Jimmi Simpson) takes all the credit for. He’s shy and retiring, he’s played by the adorable Jesse Plemons (Landry from Friday Night Lights !), and he spends his nights fantasizing that he’s the great Captain Daly of his favorite show, Space Fleet , using the high-end tech he invented, a forehead-mounted brain-projection chip. But even though the ’60s-era Star Trek knockoff he’s playacting seems chintzy and harmless, there are signs of creepiness from the get-go, with Daly treating not one but both of his female crew members to a passionate kiss at the end of another “episode.” After a friendly interaction with Nanette (Cristin Milioti), a new employee at work, things go from creepy to truly disturbing, as Daly steals her DNA from a used coffee cup and creates a digital version of her within his Space Fleet program. Recommended Reading. Black Mirror 's Universe Coalesces. Black Mirror ’s ‘Playtest’ Brings Fear to Life. Black Mirror ’s ‘Shut Up and Dance’ Is a Horrifying Thriller. Nanette is now the ship’s science officer, clad in the familiar miniskirt and go-go boots of that kitschy decade; but more importantly, she’s trapped. Unlike the online multiplayer game Daly invented, this program is walled off from the rest of the internet to serve as his private playground. Nanette and other co-workers are Daly’s ensemble cast, and anytime he enters the program, they have to shower him with obsequious praise as he acts out his childish fantasies. Apart from that, they’re stuck in the program, with nothing to do except wait for their tyrannical master to return. Any Black Mirror episode is going to invite comparison to the real-life excesses, and dangers, of the tech world; prior entries, like Season 2’s “The Waldo Moment” and “White Bear,” seemed outlandish when they debuted but harrowingly apt now. “USS Callister” is darkly funny and at times delightfully surreal (these computer versions of the crew lack genitalia, giving them a Ken-doll physique). But it’s also a knowing satire of the male power fantasy that’s been playing out online since the dawn of the internet, and that seemed to go from bad to worse in 2017. As the commander of his own private starship, Daly demands adoration and total acquiescence from his crew members, or else he harasses them by removing their faces or turning them into alien monsters. They can’t even escape their predicament by dying, as much as they’d like to; only Daly has control over life and death within his universe. When Walton resists him, Daly torments him by creating a digital clone of his son and killing it in front of him. As cute as the set dressings of Space Fleet might look, this sci-fi world is one of drudgery mixed with emotional abuse— Daly thinks he’s a hero captain, but he’s little more than an online troll. So many of Brooker’s Black Mirror fables warn against the terror of being connected, so I was delighted that he opened this new season with a story about just the opposite. After all, so much of 2017’s news has been defined by a lack of communication, by polarization, and by political leaders who, like Daly, seem to crave unprecedented levels of control along with hollow compliments. In “USS Callister,” the only way to defeat Daly is to open his secret network up to the rest of the game, visualized as the crew piloting the ship into a wormhole while their boss is momentarily distracted by real life. “USS Callister” was perhaps a mite too long at 75 minutes (its epic conclusion, while tense at times, was very drawn-out). But its concept was perfect for Black Mirror : a mix of fizzy pop culture and genuinely bleak drama. More importantly, it had a happy ending—the crew escapes, Daly is stranded in his now-empty program, and Nanette’s online clone finds herself in a comparative paradise, a multiplayer video game. Who’s the first person she encounters there? An egotistical fool (voiced by Aaron Paul) who lamely proclaims himself the king of space battles. Yes, there’s more than one Captain Daly out there—but at least this time Nanette can warp to another galaxy. Sophie, do you share my take on the topicality of “USS Callister?” Don’t you want to drive into a wormhole as 2017 winds to a close?