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Spoilers For "Starwater Paths: Strange New Worlds" to follow.

Star Trek's main characters are researchers above all, and sometimes research is about researching the past. This is exactly what is happening in the "weird new worlds" season 3, episode 5 ", through the lenses of time."

In the previous episode of season 3, "Wedding Bell Blues", we met the new boyfriend of Christine Chapel (Ess Bush), Dr. Roger Corby (Cilian O'Sullivan). We know from "Old Trek: The Original Series" - specifically the episode "What are little girls created?" - That chapel and Corbi will be included, but it will fall when she disappeared at archaeological digging.

"Through Lens of Time" shows Corby in action as an archaeologist. He and a small team of guests, including Spack (Ethan Peck), Laan (Christina Jong), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) and Beto Ortegas (Minor Luken), discover what seems to be an ancient temple of extinct civilization. When closed inside, they find out that the normal rules of space are not applied there.

The black metallic appearance of the temple and the very premise of astronauts exploring an abandoned city with dark secrets, Evokes "Prometheus" by Ridley Scott. But "Prometheus" and "through the lenses of time" also withdraw from an older story of science fiction: "On the Mountains of Madness" of HP Lovecraft.

Actually, Film director Guillermo del Toro dropped out of the adaptation of the movie "Mountains of Madness" In the 2010s of the last century because Prometheus had to hit theaters soon. (Although Del Toro later shared some A computer-ainated test footage of "On the Mountains of Madness" on the Internetit's far from the whole picture.)

Posted in 1936, "The Mountains of Madness" follows a university team of an expedition scientists in Antarctica. There, they reveal evidence of a prehistoric civilization before several researchers were brutally killed. The story's narrator, Dr -William Dyer and his graduate student Danfort, then reveal and explore an ancient city hidden behind the imposition of the mountains. Billions of years ago, this city was home to foreign "older things". The fall of the old things was their own creations: artificially created servants of shaping known as the Jog, which increased to destroy their masters. Some of the shoggoths still live and they are what destroyed the camp. In the end, Dyer and Danfort barely avoid the mountains with their lives, but Danfort does not retain his reasonability.

(And yes, Looking at Lovecraft's infamous racismThe subtext of shoggoths as a revolted slaves that destroy civilization and are transmitted to wild predators without their masters to make them, as terrible as the creatures themselves.)

"On the Mountains of Madness" was one of Lovecraft's last stories and remains among its most influential. The original episode of D -Corby "Star Trek" is even a pseudo adaptation.