With Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds returning for Season 3 on July 17, the advertising is about to warmth up for the persevering with mission of Captain Pike and the remainder of the crew of the USS Enterprise. However some Trek followers could also be a bit confused by the teaser trailer for the brand new season, which hints on the inclusion of a holodeck – know-how that wasn’t actually seen on the earth of Trek till Captain Picard’s Subsequent Technology adventures kicked off in 1987.
Since TNG was set about 100 years after The Authentic Sequence, which in and of itself is about a couple of decade after Unusual New Worlds, this second within the teaser trailer looks as if a little bit of a continuity gaffe. And but there’s Spock (Ethan Peck) and La’An (Christina Chong) standing on the very acquainted grid of the holodeck – La’A fair has on interval clothes, indicating she’s heading into some holo-adventure.
Watch the teaser right here:
Different pictures within the trailer appear to be establishing a murder-mystery episode – Clue in area! – with the entire forged attending to play dress-up… little question on the holodeck with La’An. However once more, you ask, why is there a holodeck on the OG Enterprise in any respect!?
Effectively, to begin with, let’s put apart all the opposite prospects that sci-fi (and even primary storytelling) supply us. This might be a dream, or it might be an alien creation, like a actuality created by Q (or a Q-type being like Trelane, the TOS one-and-done character who turned out to principally be a child Q, and is rumored to be returning for this season of SNW). Or this might be time journey! Or an alternate actuality! Or…
Nah, this can be a holodeck. However the factor is, the holodeck didn’t originate on Subsequent Technology. Probably not. In reality, the idea goes again to this model of the Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C or D…). In response to Reminiscence Alpha, the e book Inside Star Trek: The Actual Story experiences that Trek creator Gene Roddenberry needed to incorporate a holodeck-like space on the ship within the third season of The Authentic Sequence, however price range constraints proved prohibitive. He lastly did get the concept onscreen, nevertheless, on Star Trek: The Animated Sequence in 1974. Within the episode “The Sensible Joker,” a model of the holodeck is featured – but it surely’s known as a “recreation room.” Sulu, Dr. McCoy and Uhura use it to go to the seaside, after which to a forest, however even again then holodeck malfunctions have been a factor. (The ship’s pc turns into the sensible joker of the episode title and causes all types of mischief for the oldsters within the rec room.)
However past that, Star Trek: Discovery additionally featured one thing that was holodeck-adjacent, if not an precise holodeck. This was in Season 1 of that collection, which is about even sooner than Unusual New Worlds. Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs) and Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) are present process some navy coaching workout routines in what quantities to a holographic setting. There’s no grid on the wall, however then once more, there’s no malfunction both! Looks as if a win?
All of which is to say, sure, holodeck tech did exist in some type again throughout Captain Pike’s period. Now let’s see in the event that they name it a “rec room” – in the event that they do, then you definitely’ll know the writers are actually being attentive to Trek historical past.
