The parallels between "Infinity" and "Fortnite", Epic Games "is a very popular franchise to combat Royal, becoming clear early in the" USS Callister: Into Infinity ". A shiny typography of the silver title for the episode can borrow from the look of Kelvin's "Star Trek" timeframe, but there are no most references to the very desired Ein Born -Board series. After all, it was a fixation of Robert's personal pop culture, and he seemed pretty dead the last time we saw him. In the new story, Nanet's digital team is still trapped in the world of "infinity", but it is strongly monetized - and they can't get the prey they need to survive if they are not legitimate human players.

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"In infinity" uses the language and aesthetics of "Fortnit" as a gloomy but funny backdrop on the crew story on the edge of poverty and hunger. When the team robs players in the real world, their prey and weapons fall to the ground, allowing the Kalister crew to take place before the players are given. The gamers crossing the tracks are colorful, decorated with stylish equipment like lush pink pistols or neon green punk Mohavci. For anyone who has played "Fortnite", these people look very much like almost wireless skins for characters, and they use gaming tags to identify themselves. Late in the episode, one character even mentions the viewer regime, an option (both in "Fortnit" and "Infinity") that allows the defeated player to see the rest of the game through the eyes he can kill.

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The "Black Mirror" changes enough in connection with "Fortnit" to make its fictional hyper-popular online game fail to succeed in copyright violations; Isn't it explicitly talking about things such as advertising, brand collaborations and Battle Royale's game. However, it is quite clear in its parody, and even mentions options for options such as solo and entertainment modes. The parallels are interesting, but in the end they are nowhere near as richly developed as "old Trek"-inspired world of USS Kalister. While that episode used sexism in the 60s of "Star Trek: Original Series" to tell a powerful, frightening story of insidious behavior "handsome" and gender trips for power, "in infinity" simply makes its "Fortnite" -lite world of conspiracy. At best, monetization of "infinity" - what a character calls "the price of crisis with existence" - can be read as a fleeting commentary on the tank economy, indifferent supervisors and the fight for autonomy before all this.

That's certainly nothing, but the episode still fails to use its "Fortnite" connection, the more the dressing of the windows. Without a long-term, cordial scientific franchise like "Star Trek" at its core this time around, the pop-cultural allegory of the sequel eventually becomes, well, a little lost in space.

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