STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS
SEASON 1, EPISODE 2
SEASON 1, EPISODE 2
Calypso
Series: Star Trek: Short Treks - (2018 - current)Season: 1
Episode #: 2
Original Airdate: November 8th, 2018
Writer(s): Sean Cochran and Michael Chabon
Director(s): Olatunde Osunsanmi
Staring
Aldis Hodge as Craft
Annabelle Wallis as Zora
Co-Staring
Sash Striga as Zora Holo-Dancer
Stardate: Unknown
Synopsis
Alone in an escape pod, a man named Craft spends his time watching Betty Boop cartoons as he drifts through space. Suddenly, he is caught in a tractor beam, and his pod is brought onboard the U.S.S. Discovery.
He awakens in sickbay and attempts to put on an ill-fitted jumpsuit. He then hears the voice of Zora. He believes Zora to be alive, but instead she is actually Discovery's computer.
Craft learns the truth about Zora and the fate of Discovery's crew in the mess hall, where he spends time playing chess and learning about human culture. He is particularly intrigued by the concept of Taco Tuesday.![]()
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Craft wishes to return to his wife and child, but is told by Zora that he cannot; there is only one warp-capable shuttlecraft on the ship, and after a millennium, it is likely unworkable.
Consequently, Craft spends his time watching old movies on the bridge with Zora. Zora's favorite is the 1957 film Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. The film is viewed as a holographic projection. Craft realizes that he can dance with Zora through this projection, and replicates himself a coat much like Astaire's in the film. However, as they dance, he recalls his wife and child, and leaves the bridge.
Zora realizes that Craft can never truly love her and equips him with a spacesuit and the warp-capable shuttle and he warps off for home to see his family. Zora and the Discovery float on through the cosmos.
Trailer
Posters courtesy of Laz Marquez and J.J. Lendl
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