Things might not work out exactly how we think
who shows the crew Buster Keaton movies in “Forget Me Not.” In other words, the Zora we meet in “Calypso” is a fully evolved version of the emergent A.I. This means that now, we’ve had to put the events of “Calypso” potentially a millennium beyond the setting of DiscoverySeason 3. Between “Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2” and “That Hope Is You Part 1” the USS Discovery wasn’t adrift for 1,000 years, it jumped 930 years in basically an instant. The new Season 3 episodes of Discoveryall happen in the 32nd century in the year 3188, and perhaps, now 3189 (depending on when Burnham’s “gap year” elapsed.) When “Calypso” first aired, we really didn’t know this future jump was going to happen, and later, when the future jump was revealed, many fans (myself included) theorized that the time period seen in DiscoverySeason3 would be the same time period from “Calypso.” But, now, that doesn’t exactly match up. In Discovery Season 3 Episode 2, “Far From Home,” the aggressive courier named Zareh dismissively referred to Saru as a “v’draysh captain.” The writer of “Calypso,” was Star Trek: Picardshowrunner Michael Chabon, who confirmed in 2018 that “v’draysh” is a syncope of the word “Federation.” This means that so far, in Discovery Season 3, there have already been two references to the future time frame of “Calypso.” When does “Calypso” take place relative to Discovery Season 3? Craft was from the planet Alcor IV, and said his planet had been at war with a group called the V’draysh. Zora told a castaway named Craft (Aldis Hodge) that she had been ordered to maintain position by the captain of the ship. In the 2018 Short Treks episode “Calypso,” Wallis played the voice of the Discovery computer, who at that point had named herself “Zora.” In that episode, the ship had been left adrift for 1,000 years, at some point in the distant future. When the ship’s computer recommends that Saru “share a meal” with the crew, and talks to him about Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the voice changes from actress Julianne Grossman - the regular Discovery computer voice - to Annabelle Wallis.
And, if you’ve seen the Short Treksepisode “Calypso,” then you know how that evolution will eventually play out. Here’s what the emergence of the Discovery computer means, and how this journey foreshadows a potentially huge plot development we’ve already seen and begins to explain one of the biggest mysteries in Discovery canon. But, when the computer of the USS Discovery started getting more friendly with Saru in the Discovery episode “Forget Me Not,” it’s the first step towards a larger evolution. In Star Trek: The Original Series, when the USS Enterprise computer randomly started calling everyone “dear” in the episode “Tomorrow Is Yesterday,” Kirk and Spock considered a minor annoyance and programming error. This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for “Forget Me Not” and Short Treks’ “Calypso.”
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