Black Mirror Season 4 USS Callister Breakdown And Easter Eggs!

Lucy and Oscar break down Black Mirror's homage to Star Trek, USS Callister. Beware, spoilers!

[ChristiJae]

I thought the reason why he put Nanette in the game is because he over heard her saying that she didn’t like him sexually just professionally not just because he liked her.

[Libraluv]

Did you all forget that the black female actress is the woman in Nosedive at the airport?

[brautigan]

"You better run. King of space, baby. King of space. " Cracked me the hell up.

[lovedany]

I had a friend who used to play "The Sims" and created the characters based on people she knew from school that she didn't like and used to torture them and stuff...this episode really remind me of her :o

[charlieprichard]

He doesn't put Nanette in the game because he likes her. He does it because of what he overhears her saying when she's getting coffee. He's almost like Jigsaw from Saw because whenever someone does something bad to him IRL, he puts them into the game where he has control over what they do.

[ccmbrli]

He's not doing a British accent, he's imitating William Shatner (and tons of other actors) from the 60's.

[KanadBarua]

"All buttons do exactly the same thing" - Reference to the Oona Chaplin - Jon Hamm scene from White Christmas

[PetalsAndPlague]

He didn't put her in because he liked her. He did at first but because he overheard her talking then her mannerisms change. This makes him mad.

[fangirlfortheages]

They also kept the theme that everyone wearing a red shirt gets killed in some way

[foxsmith]

The part where he turned Shania into a monster was really disturbing

[brianblack]

This episode, kind of, looks at the psyche of gamers. Just think how much fun we have killing innocent characters on the Sims, GTA, and other similar games. I hate to say it, but we'd probably be just as cruel as Daly with aware, digital copies of real people, given the technology. This is what Black Mirror is about. Us and our flaws with this technology, that is not far off from what we currently have.

[d-fenz]

The main reason why l love this episode is it puts you in the hot seat and asks you the question, if you had God like abilities/power, would it make you malevolent or benevolent, i personally think having that much power would eventually corrupt majority of us. It would be like playing the Sims but this time giving your characters "free will" but punishing them for not obeying you

[kevokoma]

Am I the only one bothered by the massive plot hole of how the other characters were able to hack the system if all the controls in the ship do the same thing??

Like WTF

[allenmmmm]

Philip Seymour hofman and Matt Daemon progeny

[Janokins]

It's an interesting concept, because those guys weren't really sucked into the game à la Tron. Copies of their personalities and memories were uploaded to the game and attached to sentient AI. We are told that they are sentient explicitly by one of the crew. My point is... I don't feel bad for tormenting NPCs in Skyrim (or synths in Fallout) but they're not sentient. Moral is, don't create AI, they'll kill you, just like Terminator.

[Microfoot]

I wouldn’t say this episode was “just fun.”

[LordHF]

That one episode with an kind of good ending..

[alback]

Oscar looks like a guy who goes home and does the same thing as Meth Damon in the show.

[bravonandamoirangthem]

For he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good fellow
..
Oh my fuck

[xiao]

You missed that Shania also played a role in Nosedive. She was that woman in blue in the episode Nosedive.