It might, but it's premature to conclude that when we've only seen half (?) of the story. Let's wait another 5 days and then maybe we can decide.
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It might, but it's premature to conclude that when we've only seen half (?) of the story. Let's wait another 5 days and then maybe we can decide.
Well first the 2011-2016 ongoing series did the "Mirrored" arc, an ambiguous imagination or real story featuring another prime timeline Narada and Jellyfish landing in the mirror universe and altering things to be an evil version of the 2009 movie. The mirror Enterprise is destroyed and the arc ends with mirror Uhura killing mirror Kirk to seize command of the Narada.
Then the ongoing series threw that out and did the "Live Evil" arc, featuring the reality-displaced Enterprise crew working with the mirror heroic version of Khan Singh against the mirror Enterprise crew and the overthrown mirror Kirk.
I will say that "Live Evil" was a rather fun arc.
EDIT: corrected series typo.
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IDW's version of alternate realities reminded me of Farscape's rather silly take on it.
(Although after seeing DS9's version, with BDSM lesbians and human Vic Fontaine, one wonders if IDW aren't entirely justified)
(Although after seeing DS9's version, with BDSM lesbians and human Vic Fontaine, one wonders if IDW aren't entirely justified)
The Empire actually originates from Mondas - headcanon accepted.
This post is to serve as a marker for where another thread will be merged in, so the conversation will be splitting in two (the fact that both the current conversation here and the new thread are about the mirror universe is amusing me)
And as with any situation where you mess with space-time, the warning that it's about to happen comes after the occurence. This is why the previous page of posts was confusing
And as with any situation where you mess with space-time, the warning that it's about to happen comes after the occurence. This is why the previous page of posts was confusing
And even though it was theoretically that series's counterpart to "Mirror, Mirror," its plot was strikingly similar to ENT's "In a Mirror, Darkly."
Actually, Live Evil was also in the 2011-2016 series (it was issues 50-52; Mirrored was 15-16).
I imagine the "Live" in "Live Evil" is meant to be pronounced as in "Live and Let Die", but I keep wanting to pronounce it as in "Live From New York", as Live: Evil is also the title of Black Sabbath's 1982 live album.
At my university, there was (and maybe still is?) a set of bushes on a hillside cut to spell out the word "LIVE," and I could never figure out whether it was the verb with a short I or the adjective with a long I. Eventually I decided to assume it was an attempt by a dyslexic, Satan-worshipping gardener to spell "EVIL." You can't prove it wasn't!
Empress Sato's husband might be the yet-to-be-revealed Emperor. Perhaps Mirror Lorca tried to have him killed in order to get in good with the Empress.
In the Decipher RPG from ten years ago, Garth of Izar was the Emperor during the 2250s. That'd be an interesting way of introducing the character.
In the Decipher RPG from ten years ago, Garth of Izar was the Emperor during the 2250s. That'd be an interesting way of introducing the character.
Oops, I typo-ed that. Thanks for the correction.
I’m assuming it’s going to be Georgiou. (I’m sure I mispelled that.)
Nope, you actually spelled her name correctly
I find the theory that Stamets is the Emperor and that's the reason Prime Stamets kept rambling about "the Palace" rather compelling.
Well the way he accidentally referred to Tilly being captain in a previous episode seemed more subservient.
Curious too as to how next week's episode is going to present the Mirror Sarek™ character in relation to how the character is depicted in David Mack's Mirror Litverse works (and also in Keith's The Mirror-Scaled Serpent). Really I doubt there'll be too much of a deviation, and it'll probably be the identity of Teh Emperor! that's gonna be the big, splashy "twist"-reveal (the other big potential contradiction possibly being how independent the Klingon Empire is at this point -- will it be fully-subjugated on DSC, compared to the books?).
As Christopher and others have mentioned, given the rather large timeline-gap between the Shards and Shadows Robert April story and The Sorrows of Empire, it still might be possible to reconcile things, but we'll see here.
As Christopher and others have mentioned, given the rather large timeline-gap between the Shards and Shadows Robert April story and The Sorrows of Empire, it still might be possible to reconcile things, but we'll see here.
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What is Sarek's status in the Mirror Universe novels? It's been an awful long time.