For All Mankind Season 4 Finale Explained: An Asteroid Heist And A Jump To The Future – SlashFilm

Now in 2012, Dev stands right by the Korolev Crater on Mars (which is filled with ice and the site of a mission to try and find life). He then looks at the passing asteroid, where we see a massive mining operation is underway at a site named after Grigory Kuznetsov, the first Russian on Mars.

"For All Mankind" has always been about the cost of progress, and how we should be treating space exploration as seriously and with as much enthusiasm as the Age of Discovery (except without the colonization part). Sure, there have been plenty of setbacks, and many characters audiences knew and loved died along the way, but the benefits far outweigh the sacrifices.

"Progress is never free. There's always a cost," von Braun said in season 1, but that's the wrong motto for "For All Mankind," particularly given that the context for that phrase was a man who ignored the Holocaust in the name of his so-called progress. Instead, the better motto for the show, and the phrase that should lead the show into its next decade, is "Ad Astra per Aspera" or "To the stars through hardships." The phrase is commonly associated with "Star Trek," and seems to fit this show's optimistic approach to the future much better.

Because now that Mars has likely become a self-sufficient colony, and one of the strongest economies in modern human civilization, it is time to go beyond. In season 1, the discovery of water on the Moon meant, according to Ed Baldwin, humanity now had "a refueling station on our way to the rest of the solar system." The series' creatives have previously talked about their end goal of having seven seasons. Now that Mars has been conquered, it's time we move closer to the cosmos.

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