Producer Ronald D. Moore reveals which three Trek shows exist in his alternate sci-fi Apple TV+ show.
In a certain way, the incredible Apple TV+ show For All Mankind can be looked at as an unofficial precursor to Star Trek. 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 Star Trek starts in the future, on For All Mankind, we see that past. We took the moon, we took Mars, 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 For All Mankind, Star Trek exists. The Wrath of Khan 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 Star Trek shows exist in this world.
“I know you hate Star Trek, 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.
