Mirror Broken Sequel/Prime Universe TNG Crossover Coming In May

[JD]

IDW has announced that they will be releasing a sequel to their TNG Mirror Universe miniseries, Broken Mirror. The new series, Through the Mirror, will see the MU characters encountering their Prime Universe counterparts. It will be released as a 5 week series in May, and will be written by Broken Mirror writers Scott and David Tipton, each issue will be drawn by a different artist, and will have a backup story drawn by Broken Mirror Artist J.K. Woodward.

 

[Khan 2.0]

doing the mirror universe in comics at the time of Discovery abit like when The Last Generation came out around the same time as the similarly alt reality themed ST09 and also back in 1991 the Starfleet Academy annual (which was like Bennetts lost Trek VI) at the time of TUC

 

[Leto_II]

doing the mirror universe in comics at the time of Discovery abit like when The Last Generation came out around the same time as the similarly alt reality themed ST09 and also back in 1991 the Starfleet Academy annual (which was like Bennetts lost Trek VI) at the time of TUC

Not really, since these comic series all take place late in the 24th Century, and are adhering (well, kinda) to canon established by DS9 concerning events occurring post-TOS. Those same events haven't even occurred yet in Discovery's timeframe.

 

[Christopher]

^I think Khan just means that telling tie-in stories based on similar concepts is a form of cross-promotion, an attempt to capitalize on the latest movie or show by doing something reminiscent of it. Although the Starfleet Academy thing is a pretty huge stretch, since I doubt your average fan had any idea that there was an unmade movie about the Academy.

 

[Khan 2.0]

^I think Khan just means that telling tie-in stories based on similar concepts is a form of cross-promotion, an attempt to capitalize on the latest movie or show by doing something reminiscent of it. Although the Starfleet Academy thing is a pretty huge stretch, since I doubt your average fan had any idea that there was an unmade movie about the Academy.

Yes that's what I meant. The Starfleet Academy VI was quite a known thing from being in the Trek VI news updates of The Official Fan Club magazine in 90/91 and even in the back pages of the DC comics (VI news update on the letters page), and later described in detail in the pages of the Cinefantastique VI issue, so when the Academy annual came out Xmas 91 I remember I was like 'ooh this is like the comic adaptaion to the SFA movie that almost happened!' but then maybe it was just me as no internet to discuss this stuff lol

 

[JD]

StarTrek.com has a few more details.
The artists are Chris Johnson, Marcus To, Josh Hood, Carlos Nieto and Deborah Carita. It sounds like the backup stories will be filling in the gaps between Mirror Broken and Through the Mirror.
They also have a couple quotes from he Tiptons.

 

[Christopher]

The Starfleet Academy VI was quite a known thing from being in the Trek VI news updates of The Official Fan Club magazine in 90/91 and even in the back pages of the DC comics (VI news update on the letters page), and later described in detail in the pages of the Cinefantastique VI issue

Even so, the filmmakers didn't actually go that route, so it doesn't really follow that an Academy story would be a tie-in to a movie that ended up having nothing to do with the Academy. Maybe Peter David and his editor thought "Well, if Harve didn't do it, let's do it ourselves," but that's different from doing it as a cross-promotion.

StarTrek.com has a few more details.
...
They also have a couple quotes from he Tiptons.

Like this one:

“The one thing that's never been done in Star Trek's Mirror Universe tales is an all-out clash between universes,” Scott Tipton said in a statement.

Maybe he's unaware of DC's Mirror Universe Saga? I'd say that qualified as a direct clash, at least between the two Enterprise crews.

 

[JD]

Yeah, and there was also Dark Mirror, which had the TNG crew encountering their Mirror counterparts.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Even so, the filmmakers didn't actually go that route, so it doesn't really follow that an Academy story would be a tie-in to a movie that ended up having nothing to do with the Academy. Maybe Peter David and his editor thought "Well, if Harve didn't do it, let's do it ourselves," but that's different from doing it as a cross-promotion.

Fair or unfair, I had the sense that the "Starfleet Academy" annual was a "Ha ha ha, [redacted] you, Harve, we got to do your story" sort of situation.

 

[Tomalak]

I enjoyed the Mirror Broken, but I was disappointed in how short it was. I am not a regular comic reader and was surprised how brief each issue was. It felt like the story was only just getting started when it ended.

News of a sequel is very welcome indeed!

 

[JD]

TrekCore has the solicitation descriptions for each issue

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror #1

• Cover A: J.K. Woodward, Cover B: Chris Johnson
• Scott Tipton & David Tipton (w) • Chris Johnson, J.K. Woodward (a)

Because you demanded it! Following up the smash-hit miniseries Mirror Broken, the Mirror Universe Next Generation crew is looking for new worlds to conquer, and they’re crossing over to the Prime Star Trek Universe to find them!

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror #2

• Cover A: J.K. Woodward, Cover B: Marcus To
• Scott Tipton & David Tipton (w) • Marcus To, J.K. Woodward (a)

When the Enterprise-D discovers a burned-out, pillaged Andorian vessel, the search for the culprits behind it leads to some startlingly familiar faces!

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror #3

• Cover A: J.K. Woodward, Cover B: Josh Hood
• Scott Tipton & David Tipton (w) • Josh Hood, J.K. Woodward (a)

It’s interstellar espionage aboard the Enterprise-D when the Mirror Universe crew infiltrates Captain Picard’s ship! What are they up to? The answers are here!



Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror #4

• Cover A: J.K. Woodward, Cover B: Carlos Nieto
• Scott Tipton & David Tipton (w) • Carlos Nieto, J.K. Woodward (a)

Finally, Mirror Picard’s plot is revealed! It’s Enterprise crew versus Enterprise crew, with the fate of a galaxy hanging in the balance!

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror #5

• Cover A: J.K. Woodward, Cover B: Debora Carita
• Scott Tipton & David Tipton (w) • Debora Carita, J.K. Woodward (a)

Can Captain Picard prevent his Mirror counterpart’s plans for galactic conquest? It’s the explosive finale to Through the Mirror!

 

[Tribble puncher]

I enjoyed the Mirror Broken, but I was disappointed in how short it was. I am not a regular comic reader and was surprised how brief each issue was. It felt like the story was only just getting started when it ended.

News of a sequel is very welcome indeed!

Yeah same here, I enjoyed the comics and the Art overall, and the first 4 issues were really good setting everything up, but then it just ended abruptly, there were all kinds of things set up and never mentioned again. but what was good in the series was really good so I'm glad I got it.

 

[Stevil2001]

Yeah same here, I enjoyed the comics and the Art overall, and the first 4 issues were really good setting everything up, but then it just ended abruptly, there were all kinds of things set up and never mentioned again. but what was good in the series was really good so I'm glad I got it.

Scott Tipton is a hell of a nice guy as far as I can tell, but from reading his IDW Star Trek and Doctor Who work, he has no idea how to satisfactorily pace a comic book story.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Scott Tipton is a hell of a nice guy as far as I can tell, but from reading his IDW Star Trek and Doctor Who work, he has no idea how to satisfactorily pace a comic book story.

Heck, reading his Doctor Who work, I was convinced that he'd never seen an episode of Doctor Who.

 

[Tribble puncher]

Scott Tipton is a hell of a nice guy as far as I can tell, but from reading his IDW Star Trek and Doctor Who work, he has no idea how to satisfactorily pace a comic book story.

Yeah it was just BOOM, over.

Spoiler

They went to the trouble to set all this stuff up with Geordi, Leah Bhraums, Riker and Troi, Guinan, Doctor Crusher and even Barclay as people who would potentially make a move to take over the ship or turn on Picard and nothing happened with ANY of it, just a space battle, all is forgiven, big feast at the end. Also, I'm pretty sure the Klingon/Cardassian Response to that defeat will be Swift and Brutal. Hopefully the sequel series will tie up some of the admittedly numerous dangling threads.

 

[Daddy Todd]

It was originally announced as a 6-part series, with a half-issue prequel on FCBD, but they obviously had a change of heart, and it wound up being 5 issues plus FCBD half-issue.

But then they also did an issue for Loot Crate, 20 pages of new material, that fell sort of between issues 4 and 5, iirc. No idea if that will be in the Trade.

What I’m trying to say, is that they changed their plans between the launch, and the end of the series. Maybe that’s why they are able to get a 5 issue sequel series out so soon — they have plenty of story left to tell.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Fair or unfair, I had the sense that the "Starfleet Academy" annual was a "Ha ha ha, [redacted] you, Harve, we got to do your story" sort of situation.

I don't see why you're reading any sort of maliciousness into it. They probably just thought it was a fun idea & decided to do their own spin on it. Same as when Mike W. Barr decided to do a Doc Savage Annual that told the story of Doc meeting his five friends in a World War I prison camp. This was years after Phillip Jose Farmer alluded to that backstory in Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life and a couple years before Farmer got to write his own version of the story in Escape From Loki. (And honestly, I liked Barr's version better.)

Heck, Peter David even decided to do something similar in his post-STV Trek comics when he did a storyline about the trial of James T. Kirk, which was a popular fan theory for the next movie after STIII.

 

[thribs]

Never been much of a fan of the Mirror universe. Surprised the Terran Empire is still around at this time. DS9 gave the impression that decades have past since they fell.
Would be interesting if it incorporated some STD canon into it. Probably would be the first to do so.

 

[Leto_II]

Never been much of a fan of the Mirror universe. Surprised the Terran Empire is still around at this time. DS9 gave the impression that decades have past since they fell.

Yeah...the writers played pretty fast-and-loose with much of what DS9 established onscreen about not only the status of the Terran Empire itself, but even the efficacy of Spock's reforms. Intendant Kira's exact dialogue from "Crossover":

Our Terrans were barbarians then, but their Empire was strong. While your Kirk was on this side, he met a Vulcan named Spock and somehow had a profound influence on him. Afterwards, Spock rose to Commander in Chief of the Empire by preaching reforms, disarmament, peace. It was quite a remarkable turnabout for his people. Unfortunately for them, when Spock had completed all these reforms, his empire was no longer in any position to defend itself against us.

However, in the Mirror Broken comics, almost none of this is actually depicted, with the old, barbaric Terrans simply getting a bloody nose and limping back to their quarantined home system, seemingly having evolved virtually none during the intervening century or thereabouts.

I mean, you can kinda maybe-sorta make the existence of a hugely-reduced Terran rump-state work in the context of everything DS9 established if you squint sideways hard enough, but the dilapidated moral character and still-cruel, highly-militaristic natures of 24th Century Terrans as depicted in the comics seems extremely incompatible with what DS9 told us, assuming that Intendant Kira is a reliable narrator here.

 

[RandyS]

^You could also make the argument that the TNG episode "Parrallels" established the existence of 285,000 parrallel universes of which we only saw six or seven of them. Half of those, or at least a good number of them could be Terran Empire universes where the Empire never fell and this comic series is showing us one of those.