Some Questions About Terran Mirror Universes
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What would be taking place on the positive axis if the mirror universe is taking place along the negative axis?
Boredom.
Various universes where things turned out “better” than in the Prime timeline? Say, the Khan-era Augments AREN’T megalomaniacs, but instead uplifters, humanity advances rather than suffering through WWIII, and first contact with everybody from the Vulcans (somewhere in deep space instead of on Earth) on through the Klingons ends up going very differently... butterflies.
It's an infinite multiverse. Literally anything is possible.
You can be infinite, but still limited. For example, the list of only even numbers will never include 3.
I believe the Mirror Universe is a particular parallel reality (one of the extremely many, as shown in Parallels), but one that is in some sort of direct correspondence / link to our Prime Universe. Which means that the odds of 'accidentally' getting transported there are significantly greater than to any other parallel reality, which is why we get relatively many episodes in them.
Generally events happen to mirror ('good' people become 'evil', and 'evil' become 'good'), but it's not a direct 1:1 mirror... some people are relatively decent (if a bit rough) in both Universes, others are nasty pieces of work in both.
Generally events happen to mirror ('good' people become 'evil', and 'evil' become 'good'), but it's not a direct 1:1 mirror... some people are relatively decent (if a bit rough) in both Universes, others are nasty pieces of work in both.
Perhaps there is a type of quantum entanglement involved between the universe?
I gave my take. It is a quantum entanglement. The Mirror Universe does not actually exist at all.
Not sure I really understand .... what makes the Mirror Universe more 'fictional' than the Prime Universe? Yes, the Terran Empire is larger than life, but so are some Prime Unverse species ....
A “real” parallel universe, one following logical rules, would spin off a single point of divergence and only get farther from the “original” universe as time passes. Due to exactly how unlikely it is that a specific sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell, anything even slightly different very quickly snowballs into change. Very shortly, no one born in that timeline would be the same person that they were/would have been in the “original.”
So, say, in the timeline where George Washington was killed by the French in the French and Indian War, you won’t see an Alternate JFK in, because he would have never been conceived at all.
Parallels where you see the same characters in each even though centuries have passed since the point of divergence should not, logically, exist, so there has to be something else in play.
Like... TV show logic?
If you’re looking for a dull, out-of-universe explanation, yes. If you’re looking to make it make sense in-universe in regards to the other parallel universes in Star Trek (“Parallels,” etc.) then no.
I have an MU theory that the MU started off as like a warp bubble based on the suppressed negative urges of mankind after they “Evolved”.
And that humans were originally able to overcome their nature because the negative aspects of their nature reflected into the other universe. Then they gradually developed a self sustaining culture based on that evolution and the urges were no longer there to be suppressed, and that’s when the universes started drifting further apart.
(Or maybe they just stopped suppressing them after the Dominion War.)
Kind of like the episode of Rick and Morty where their toxins got removed. Mirror Quark wasn’t “The good Quark”. He was Quark’s subconscious empathy that he suppressed, his “Toxin”.
The MU is Earth’s emotional garbage dump.
And that humans were originally able to overcome their nature because the negative aspects of their nature reflected into the other universe. Then they gradually developed a self sustaining culture based on that evolution and the urges were no longer there to be suppressed, and that’s when the universes started drifting further apart.
(Or maybe they just stopped suppressing them after the Dominion War.)
Kind of like the episode of Rick and Morty where their toxins got removed. Mirror Quark wasn’t “The good Quark”. He was Quark’s subconscious empathy that he suppressed, his “Toxin”.
The MU is Earth’s emotional garbage dump.
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^Wouldn't that imply, though, that the Mirror Universe can't be that old? Younger than, say, Zephram's Cochranes first warp flight?
However, in In a Mirror, Darkly, we see footage that suggests that the Terran Empire already existed around the time of the first landings on the moon.
However, in In a Mirror, Darkly, we see footage that suggests that the Terran Empire already existed around the time of the first landings on the moon.
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