It’s official: Donald Trump’s presence is so damn loud, even a trip to space won’t save you from its big-league wrath. Star Trek: Discovery, which premieres on September 24 on CBS All Access, will apparently include an allegorical nod to the election we can’t stop re-litigating—in fiction or real life.

“The allegory is that we really started working on the show in earnest around the time the election was happening,” showrunner Aaron Harberts told Entertainment Weekly. “The Klingons are going to help us really look at certain sides of ourselves and our country. Isolationism is a big theme. Racial purity is a big theme. The Klingons are not the enemy, but they do have a different view on things. It raises big questions: Should we let people in? Do we want to change? There’s also the question of just because you reach your hand out to someone, do they have to take it? Sometimes, they don’t want to take it. It’s been interesting to see how the times have become more of a mirror than we even thought they were going to be.”

The series will also allude, to some extent, to Trump’s nuclear stand-off with North Korea—which Haberts told E.W. is also on their minds as they wrap up the series. “What began as a commentary on our own divided nation—in terms of Trump supporters and non-Trump supporters—has blown out to North Korea and how we’re right on the brink. [The U.S. is] actually right at the place where Starfleet finds itself in Episode 1, and we couldn’t have anticipated that happening. But how do you end conflict when both sides have such strong opinions?”

Look, we get it. Star Trek has long tackled social and political issues, so this isn’t totally unprecedented. Still, do we really need more TV shows offering their takes on the election and our political situation more broadly? The Handmaid’s Tale became an unintentionally poignant critique of Trump’s America, despite its creators’ belief that Hillary Clinton would win the election; Ryan Murphy has muddied one of his best ideas in years by trying too hard to make a political statement; at this point, even House of Cards feels like an unnecessary, unpleasant reminder of the real state of the union. At a time when a fair number of TV viewers spend an upsettingly large portion of their days stifling an existential scream, do we really, really need more TV that drags Donald Trump somewhere he doesn’t belong? If we can’t escape 2017 in space—hundreds of years in the future, at that—where in the universe will we be safe? Wherever it is, beam us there, Scotty.

This post has been updated.