One of the most popular episodes of Black Mirror was season four’s “USS Callister.” In it, a CTO of a tech company named Daly (Jesse Plemons) escapes via VR to a Star Trek-like starship that he commands. All well and good, I suppose, except Daly stole DNA from his co-workers (including parts played by Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, and Michaela Coel) and created sentient genetic clones inside the program—prisoners to his every whim.
The 74-minute episode had a definitive ending, but today, Netflix shared (via Deadline) that the seventh season of the anthology series will see another episode centered around the surviving characters. “USS Callister will return… Robert Daly is dead, but for the crew of the USS Callister, their problems are just beginning,” said a teaser Netflix released in London at their See What’s Next Event.
The original episode was directed by Toby Haynes and written by Charlie Brooker, who is helming the seventh season of Black Mirror along with Annabel Jones. No news yet on who will pen the upcoming episode featuring the USS Callister again, but odds are good it will be Brooker. We also don’t know what challenges the digital survivors will face—when we last saw them, they had escaped the confines of Daly’s pocket universe and were free to explore the virtual Infinity that exists outside it. Where we’ll meet up with them on their adventures is uncertain, but odds are good it will be an engaging-yet-disturbing story, as most Black Mirror episodes are.
In the meantime, we can watch the first six seasons of Black Mirror, including “USS Callister,” on Netflix.
