Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x10 - "Despite Yourself"
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Yes, but...we're a tad more sophisticated audience today than we were back in the mid-Sixties. We'd accept it again, today, but...not without some controversy. Heck, we even accepted the whole Spock-McCoy-katra thing in The Search for Spock, but...I do recall more than a few Trekkers and Trekkies rolling their eyes at it.
There's a place for that kind of space fantasy. I think Star Trek, though, should be good science fiction, with as little fantasy elements as possible.
For all we know that DB created the mirror universe.
I agree. I personally hope that it's something like we learn in the next episode that Dr. Culver wasn't killed, but instead horribly injured. He was in sickbay, after all. If another doctor or nurse found him very quickly along with their futuristic medical technology it would be a much easier suspension of disbelief for me.
Good question. I've always thought of the Continuum existing outside linear time. Q did create alternate timelines in All Good Things but I don't know whether that would qualify as an overall nonlinear multiverse-level existence.
A bit of neural regeneration technology to heal the spinal cord injury...and there you go. Star Trek has been pretty reductionistic as far as how they envision medical technology. Aside from the whole Vulcan katra issue, they've more or less poo-poo'd the idea of a spiritual component to human life, so...I can see them going down that route. So long as they do it in a reasonably realistic manner--with Code Blue/Red/Whatever, lots of melodrama for fifteen minutes during cut-scenes of emergency surgery--sure, I'll bite off on that.
I actually like this theory. It seems much more plausible that the MU was just a lark by an energy being who is a capricious dick than it would happen due to random chance.
It would also explain why he always thought humans to be a "savage, child-like race". Maybe he just got recently transferred to the Prime Universe from the MU right before the Farpoint mission and still had a bad taste in his mouth from the experience.
'Living Witness' is one of my favourite MU/alternativeU episodes. Precisely because it's not slavishly tied to the MU, but has overlaps. Much as I love this DSC Terran MU, I hope they will game-change/step-up a little!
He’s paraphrasing Star Wars Return of the Jedi. Don’t worry.
Sometimes I feel like we are living in the mirror universe
I think it won’t be the Mirror Doc, and I think Stamets is in both universes essentially as one person anyway. There may even be no Prime Stamets if Lorca is MU.
I don’t mind the resets in Voy...it had plenty of arcs for its time, and it’s no worse really than say Buffy.
Never watched Buffy. I guess to me voyager had a lot of potential and I actually enjoyed the cast. Just never to me seemed to just fit right show to show. I much prefer the discovery type show.
I guess we will find out the stamets/doc thing soon enough. Must watch tv.
I guess we will find out the stamets/doc thing soon enough. Must watch tv.
He was also quite the 'ho monger.If he's anything like Mirror McCoy was reputed to be then we could be in for a treat.Mirror Phlox was a cold, calculating sadist with a typical Denobulan enthusiasm for and embrace of his job.
We accept magic, tribble Khan blood than anything is possible.
MU Phlox has one of my favorite lines from ENT - "In A Mirror Darkly" - as he's trying to kill the captured Tholian:If he's anything like Mirror McCoy was reputed to be then we could be in for a treat.
Phlox: "Will you kindly DIE!"
And he's so cheerfully ebullient while doing it.
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