Hey everyone and welcome to What Did I Miss, where today I will be breaking down all the easter eggs and things that you may have missed while watching episode 4 of season 4 of Star Trek Discovery, titled “All is Possible”.
This episode dealt with characters moving on with their lives past experiences that continue to affect their decision making and their ability to relate to others. The allegory of course is that many viewers feel isolated by the events of the past two years, and are finding it difficult to reassimilate into society and make connections with people again.
The influence of sociopolitical issues can also jade people into behaving towards others a certain way, and this episode tries to show that even still people can move forward and work together and that all is possible when this occurs. The episode also served as a spiritual successor to many Star Trek shuttle accident episodes, specifically one from the original series, and said farewell to one of the more talked about characters on the show.
If there is one type of episode that Star Trek is most known for, it may be the shuttle crash and I believe that each addition to the franchise has at least one episode in which two or more crew members are stranded on a desolate planet due to this type of McGuffin. Two of my personal favourites have to be the Next Generation episode “Final Mission”, which saw Captain Picard and Wesley stranded together as well as the Deep Space Nine episode “The Ascent”, which paired Odo and Quark together in a life or death situation.
While this episode of Discovery specifically references the Original Series episode “The Galileo Seven”, in which Spock led a team in a shuttlecraft to study a quasar that crashlands on a nearby planet. Besides Spock and Tilly both being science officers and leading their respective teams, one crew member also dies in both episodes and in both the crew are chased by monstrous creatures whose appearance is precipitated by a massive roar.
Director John Ottman confirmed in a recent interview that all of these connections are intentional, which makes this episode a love letter to the original series episode, which was also the first to introduce the shuttlecraft to the lore of Star Trek.
So far this season, Star Trek: Discovery has really leaned heavily on the nostalgia of the franchise. For instance, the first episode of the season was named “Kobayashi Maru”, a well-known part of Trek History. Then the second episode is titled “Anomaly”, which was also the name of an episode from the Star Trek: Enterprise Series. And that last episode, “Choose to Live”, is the catchphrase of one of the main characters on Picard.
Since we have not had a Voyager centric episode yet, I would expect the fifth episode of the season to be about the Borg or coffee or something.
But seriously, do you think this is too much fan service or do you appreciate Discovery leaning so hard on the history of the franchise? Let me know in the comments. Before I get into it though, don’t forget to leave a like on the video if you enjoy the content and if this is your first time visiting the channel, please subscribe.
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