She is watching what looks like a prerecorded video message from her father, who is apologizing to her for not being able to come and see her this year due to work pressures. We then meet Lil, a human girl whose father is a quality systems supervisor at the Mars Orbital Facility. We also see an orbital spacedock facility above Mars, with four Starfleet ships being assembled there. We see Kima goofing around in a video call with her Mom, revealing that their species has unusually (for us) long and flexible tongues. We meet Kima, a non-human girl whose mother works as an “anti-grav ringer” at the Utopia Planitia Shipyard on Mars. Instead, we jump right into following the lives of two teenage girls, one human and one not. In a change from most of the Short Treks that we have seen so far, this episode begins cold, with no Short Treks title screen (the words “Short Treks” do not appear anywhere in the episode) and no opening title screen. That’s about all I can say without resorting to spoilers, so if you haven’t yet seen the episode, go watch it now before continuing on. And it provides a fascinating twist to what we’ve guessed so far about the upcoming Star Trek: Picard series, which debuts in just under two weeks. It is sensitively written, stylistically interesting, and competently created. It is an episode that, unlike most of the Short Treks we’ve seen so far, adds a considerable amount of information to Star Trek canon. It is a glimpse at how that can suddenly reorient the priorities of life, and can turn enemies into allies, at least briefly. “Children of Mars,” the January 2020 episode of Short Treks, is a brief look at just such a moment in the lives of two Federation schoolgirls. Especially when you’re young, these are moments when what you thought of as safety was shattered, and life suddenly became unpredictable and frightening. These were moments when everything you thought you knew about the world underwent a shift. (I was in the dentist’s chair.) Of course for a more recent generation, it was the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Turn on the television!” I remember where I was when President Reagan was shot. I remember the father of one of my classmates coming quietly into our classroom, his face pale, whispering to the teacher, who suddenly stood up from her desk and commanded me, “Something’s happened. The first such moment in my life was when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff. Writen by Kirsten Beyer & Alex Kurtzman & Jenny LumetĮvery generation has that moment, at least once: that moment when everyone remembers where they were when it happened. Star Trek: Short Treks “Children of Mars”
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