Warning: this article discusses spoilers For “Elio”.

You never know what surprises could you be with a given pixar movie. The famous animation studio has built its heritage on all possible concepts on the wall that you might think, speaking of toys inaugurating many of us through adolescence to robots finding love in a post-apocalyptic world to anthropomorphic rats reminding us that a great art can come from anywhere. To indicate the evidence, however, it is not just These creative terrains that have transformed their respective pixar films into such household staples. “Elio” from the studio is a perfect example The way each choice of intelligent narration, each character entirely made and each loving tribute can all be added to something more than the sum of its parts.

Like so many other Pixar films, “Elio” is thrilled with branchies with Easter eggs and references while waiting for the observer public to get spotted. Children will of course be carried away by the Kaleidoscope of colors and episodic sensations throughout the film. But adults will almost highlight all the inspirations and influences that co -directors Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi and Adrian Molina proudly carry on their sleeves. Like “Wall-e” nodding around “2001: an Odyssey of the space” or “Toy Story 2” in umbrage of “Jurassic Park”, ” The creative team behind “Elio” cited classics such as “and the extraterrestrial” and even “the thing” as influences. More than that, however, this adventure linked to space is also inspired by the most nide, “Star Trek” science fiction franchise, in a way that works on several levels.

“Elio” begins in an air and space museum, where our tight title character comes up against an exhibition on the deep space probe that NASA launched in the late 1970s. This helps launch Elio’s deep and permanent passion to find out if humanity is really alone in the universe. But viewers in the eyes of the eagle (or should they be at the ears of Eagle?) Can viewers notice something familiar concerning vocal recording Elio hears poetic wax to find life among the “distant worlds” in space. It turns out that no one could have been more well adapted to the task than The USS captain travels himself: actor Kate Mulgrew.

The well -established history of Pixar to include tributes to the classics of past years Continue in “Elio”, but not in a way we could have expected. The film does not dwell on this detail at the beginning, but he speaks volumes that the creative team did everything possible to recruit Kate Mulgrew, who portrayed the head captain Kathryn Janeway on the series “Star Trek: travel” throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. First and obviously, this vocation looks like a nod and a sign Spatial cutting edge USS Voyager, and commonly accepted it that it was appointed according to the Voyager probe – the same which plays such a big role in “Elio”. But, more importantly, there is something special about Mulgrew being specifically the messenger behind a theme as humanist, festive and focused on exploration.

“Elio” is a film on our deeply rooted need for connection, acceptance and understand what our house is really – so what better connection to draw than the program “Star Trek” which concerns all these ideas at the same time? “Traveling” may not be recalled as the most loved series of The “Star Trek” franchise (and for a good reason, certainly)But no one can deny the thematic parallels with a show starring a blocked crew while trying desperately to return to earth at all costs. And at each turn, at the very center of “traveling”, the committed performance of Mulgrew while Janeway maintained the series together by the pure force of the will. Trekkies know that under this difficult exterior, the altruistic heart of the captain provided these ideals “Star Trek” par excellence for us to seek … Give or make the controversial decision linked to Tuvix or two on “Travel”.

Contrasting with Elio Daydream on the exhaust of stars, well, it’s fun to imagine that his last parents encourage his love for space through the old reruns of “Star Trek” – whether it is “traveling” (that I would like to see with the Pixar animation style) or The recently animated series committed “Prodigy”, “ in which Mulgrew has resumed his role as Janeway. Anyway, it is an appropriate cameo in a film manifestly made by spaces of space like us.

“Elio” is now playing in theaters.