![]() Martians have sacrificed for generations with the vision of terraforming the Red Planet into a home greater than the world they left behind, but that dream collapsed at the end of Season 3, when humanity gained access to the Ring gates, a network of wormholes leading to habitable planets around the galaxy, built by a mysterious ancient alien civilization. The largely impoverished denizens of the Outer Planets, dubbed Belters, are perpetually squeezed in the conflict. The Expanse’s version of the United Nations, which controls Earth and the Moon, has been locked in a cold war with the highly militaristic Martian Congressional Republic. They’ve provided a more accurate metaphor for Cold War politics. ![]() The books and the show that adapts them come from writers who’ve digested what’s happened to the world since then. Corey, gave the authors time to develop perspective on the same events. The extra two decades between Undiscovered Country and the first of the Expanse novels, written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck under the pen name James S. But history didn’t end with the Cold War. ![]() This season, the protagonists are trying to reconnect with people from their pasts, as the world is rocked by events inspired by the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Osama bin Laden.īack in 1991, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country tackled Chernobyl and the fall of the Soviet Union with Trek’s usual utopian ideals, imagining a future where the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire could put aside their long-standing grievances and achieve a new peace. That’s especially true in season 5, currently rolling out on Amazon Prime Video, with new episodes on Wednesdays. While the space-opera series The Expanse is set in a future where humanity has colonized the stars, the show has always had a strong sense of history. ![]()
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