Star Trek Is Quite Different in the World of For All Mankind

In a certain way, can be looked at as an unofficial precursor to . Both shows imagine an alternate reality where events in the past made it so technology and space travel continued to develop throughout our lifetimes. But while starts in the future, on , we see that past. and we’re still going. If you shift that story a few hundred years into the future, you can easily imagine a Starfleet made up of ships with warp drives.

So it’s no surprise that, in the alternate reality of exists. was mentioned in an earlier season and, in last week’s penultimate season four episode “Brazil,” we learned that as of the early 2000s, three shows exist in this world. “I know you hate , but you better get used to it,” space legend Danielle Poole (Krys Marshall) tells her son, who is soon to be a father.

“Because I’m gonna make sure my grandbaby is a full blown Trekkie. That’s right, we’re gonna watch all the series, all three of them.” That throwaway line got some fans wondering. In our reality, there were six total shows by 2003. So, which three survived in this reality? Well, at a Collider Q&A this week, producer Ronald D.

Moore spilled the beans. “I think... the last I counted, I thought we were saying it was , which was the show that never happened in the ‘70s, and ,” he said, per . Classic . Take what we know, and twist it a bit. for those who may not know, was the working title of the series being developed to follow up in the 1970s.

It, of course, didn’t happen in our reality, but did in . Which makes sense. That world is one much more driven by a love of space and exploration so it would be easier to make it to air. As for why, by 2003, only one other show existed, we don’t know. Maybe it’s because the reality of is so close to what was imagining: a world where people actually did boldly go where no one had gone before.

And yet, there is a tiny twist here. We also know that exists in this universe. But, according to Moore, it’s got a slightly different context, at least in his mind. “In my head, is the first movie [in the timeline],” the producer “They probably did the show that has always been talked about.

The original went off the air before the Apollo II landing... In my version of history, Paramount does make the show in the mid ’70s. And then they transitioned into and not , because of the run of the lengthy and glorious, and critically acclaimed run of it’s a year later that comes out. But it’s still that we know and it was essentially the same story.

I love and I couldn’t bear to change that. So it’s the same thing.” With the fourth season of having just ended this week, and continuing to go further and further into space, we don’t yet know if it’ll continue. But, recently, the show’s star Joel Kinneman . “The sort of grand vision for this show would take us from the space race and then an official hand over to ” he said.

It all comes back to . , and.