We’re just two weeks out from the anticipated premiere of Black Mirror Season 7 on Netflix, and if Star Trek fans were hoping for more fun in the “USS Callister” sequel episode “Polygon,” prepare to be disappointed. The long-awaited sequel will be the sixth and final episode of the new season, which debuts April 10, 2025.
Speaking with SFX Magazine (via GamesRadar), Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker and director Toby Haynes dished on all things “Polygon,” which deviates from “USS Callister” in the sense that it’s not a take on Star Trek like the original, but rather “feels a bit Return of the Jedi.” That’s right, while the first one was a spin on Gene Roddenberry’s classic series, the sequel will instead examine things through a George Lucas-like lens. “Obviously the first one was riffing on Star Trek and this one is slightly riffing on Star Wars,” Brooker said, adding:
“That was another slight difference and that meant, okay, scale-wise we’re going to go down to some planets, we’re going to have some pyrotechnics going off, we’re going larger with more stuff going on in space than we had in the first one.
“We kept saying, ‘What’s unique to our premise?’ It’s weird, because you sort of forget it’s a game. To them, it’s real, obviously. So it plays out on that sort of scale, it feels a bit Return of the Jedi or something along those lines, because it has to.”
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