Watch out, red shirts! This article contains spoilers For "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 3, Episode 3, "Shuttle to Cefri".

"Starwater Trails" in general and "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", especially not hesitate to get inspiration from other genres. In fact, the "weird new worlds" season 3 now delivered two consecutive episodes that wink and sneeze on specific works of fiction. Episode 2, "Wedding Bell Blues", has returned alien Trilan in the form of William Campbell's children (now a lynx dares of the fame "Our Flag Means Death") to present himself as a wedding planner for the recently corrupt spaum (Ethan Peck). The antagonist resets the situation whenever Spack refuses to adhere, locking the semi-volcano in a loop that seems to pay tribute to "Earth Day". Now, episode 3, titled "Shuttle in Cepheric", seems to be a riff of a far more recent phenomenon of pop culture: a series of post-apocalyptic HBO "Last of Us".

Looking for the Wealing Chimera Weed, the company sets the course of the planet Kefri, which is a strict flying zone. On the surface, Captain Christopher Pique (Anson Mount) and doctor Josephoseph M'Banga (Babs Olusanmokun) were soon found in the middle of the full-chalyptic scenario, where they encounter hordes of deadly vegetable zombies. Well, "strange new worlds" throw very specific franchises for clingon invasions and truly weird medical treatments, but the episode certainly makes cefor look like the "Starwar Track" on the "Star Trek" version of Cordyceps infected "the last of us". And honestly? Season 3 of the best show "Star Trek" in decades Makes this incredibly combined job surprisingly good.

The apocalyptic event of "The Last of Us" is a version of the parasitic fungus of Cordyceps, which begins to take the brains of the infected. Cordyceps makes its sacrifices act very much like traditional zombies and attacking people in order to spread the infection before they eventually mutate them into something far a stranger. A few years after the outbreak, nature regained most human settlements, and few survivors tried to get them by themselves or in makeshift alliances. In Season 1 of the FBO "Last of Us", the main characters ELOEL (Pedro Pascal) and Eli (White Ramsey) Cut this cruel but beautiful world of mission that may or may not save humanity, struggling with the dark side of the human nature of the road. Season 2 introduces another, very different mission for duo, as well as a key element of naughty dog games: Surprisingly scientifically accurate fungal spores which allow the air spread of infection.

It is easy to see the "shuttle to the cephanic" with similar threads. Here, Pique and Mbanga play the role of the controversial road duo, exploring overgrown buildings and trying to survive zombies infected with Moss. They even locate an apocalyptic diary, unlike those who find the players in the "Last of Us" games. It reveals that the fate of Cepheric is an effective scientific version of the Cordyceps infection: Agent Chimera, which is transmitted a lot as the "last of us" spores, went into the forest and made everyone on cephanage turn into hybrid creatures affected by moss. Combine all this with the story of revenge, violence and hopelessness on the planet, and it is clear that "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 3, Episode 2 just went completely "the last of us" to its spectators ... or with design or accident.