Of course it's from the folks who brought us For All Mankind, the alternate universe where the history of mans' exploration of space is turned on its head, in quite the "ta-da!" fashion, by the Russians beating the Americans to the moon and inspiring a continuous and never-ending Space Race pushing science to reach for the stars, so to speak, in better, and more maverick ways, than in our own more reserved timeline.
And though that show had its fair share of deep plot points in some matters, Star City appears to want to take the story even further, and from another perspective, as we see the development of manned and unmanned space travel in a pretty much fictional version of the Soviet Union. A Soviet Union which not only lands the first man and woman on the moon in the 1960s, but continues to be a strong and viable competitor to the United States for decades thereafter, even well beyond the 1990s where it dissolved in our reality. But let me not get ahead of the show... it's been stated in the production notes and interviews with the showrunners that the timeline of the series is likely to be rooted in the earlier years rather than coming close to the present as its "parent" show For All Mankind has. For instance, in the most recent episode, S1E3, the year is 1970.
This show feels very Dark Horses, The Americans or Tehran with its ever-present KGB and general paranoia hanging in the air around the characters like a thick fog, the palpable fear they live in of breaking strict Soviet protocol or even playing a Western rock and roll record made out of x-ray film. Yet the passion they feel for the science of space exploration and the secrets that the deep, vast reaches of what lies beyond our world may reveal, courses through their veins and drives them to risk everything for that knowledge of the unknown.
Hopefully too, as it's been hinted already, we're going to get some clues about the very cryptic ending of the season five finale of For All Mankind just a few weeks ago when we saw the Russian ship which had been set on a course to race to be the first to land people on Mars back in the third season of that show. It was shown now (well, in the show's timeline: 2020), still apparently adrift in space, as it had suffered a catastrophic failure back in that previous season which led to the Russian crew bailing and being rescued by the American ship nearby, and its computer was blinking... awake? People have been trying to pause their frames on the shot of that 1990's-styled computer screen with its amber monochrome DOS-looking readout and there have been all sorts of theories, but they do seem to suggest that one of the characters that are prominent in both shows are going to have some feature in the answer to this mystery of why this derelict ship is "coming alive?" forty years later in the midst of deep space for some unknown reason.
Like they say...
The plot thickens.