This year’s Hugo Award nominations, an annual celebration honoring the best science fiction and fantasy writing and literature, have been announced — and Star Trek: Discovery now follows in the footsteps of the classic Star Trek series and several of the franchise’s best installments.
Today the seventh episode of Discovery‘s first season, “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,” was nominated in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form, with the writing team of Aron Eli Coleite & Jesse Alexander, as well as director David M. Barrett, named with it.
This episode of course was one of the few standalone tales of Discovery Season 1, featuring a revenge-seeking Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson) taking over the USS Discovery through a series of ever-escalating time loops. In addition to his repeated killings of Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs), the episode also featured the bloom of romance between Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif).
“Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” has some tough competition in the Hugos this year, nominated against the Trek-esque “USS Callister” episode of Black Mirror, the Doctor Who Christmas Special “Twice Upon a Time,” and two episodes of NBC’s afterlife comedy The Good Place.
Star Trek has been nominated in many years of the Hugo Awards’ history, with wins for “The Menagerie” in 1967, “The City on the Edge of Forever” in 1968, “The Inner Light” in 1993, and “All Good Things…” in 1995. The most recent Trek nomination came for the first Kelvin Timeline film in 2010.
This year’s Hugo Awards winners will be announced on August 19.