Yes indeed. And not have Mirror Dax find out about Prime Sisko. And meet Prime Dax.
Probably fits in with Missed Opportunities thread, but it's a shame Farrell couldn't have at least shown up to play Mirror Dax in ENC.
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Probably fits in with Missed Opportunities thread, but it's a shame Farrell couldn't have at least shown up to play Mirror Dax in ENC.
I really hate that idea. I'd much rather see the Terran Rebellion build a liberal democracy. That's what they did in the novel Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions by David Mack.
The universe itself isn't evil per se. It's that many of the people we associate with being good or benign in our universe are tyrannical and oppressive in the MU. The Halkans of the Mirror Universe were also peace-loving pacifists so far as we could tell, the Klingons and Cardassians were as brutal as they were in our universe but formed an alliance and Miles O'Brien was cynical but at heart a good man who just wanted dignity and peace for those like himself.
Spock was the same, Brunt was a decent Ferengi. The MU was not all evil characters
And T'Pol and Soval were two other Vulcans who were more or less principled people in the Mirror Universe but serving a totalitarian Terran Starfleet instead of the multicultural and democratic one of our universe.
Don't forget Smiley & O'Brien!
I will say I think the best MU episodes are: TOS's 'Mirror, Mirror' (obviously), DS9's 'Crossover', and the 2 Enterprise outings.
Yes. And the story would be about how liberty, justice, and equality win out against fascism. A fulfillment of Kirk's belief that freedom would win out in the end.
I don't say this easily, but: I think Discovery is better than Picard. While I still like both, it's no longer equally. It's not even neck-and-neck anymore.
Hey. This is the Controversial Opinions thread.
Hey. This is the Controversial Opinions thread.
DSC Season 4 looks like it's going to have the superior season this year, that's for sure.
I liked the characters and dialogue way more in Picard s2, I liked the story and concepts more in Discovery s4, I think both of them needed to wrap their stories up a third of the way through the season and then start a new arc.
DISCO Connie is prettier than TOS Connie.
I know, it's a controversial take, but I prefer what John Eaves did to the classic TOS Connie and updated it for DISCO & SNW.
I know, it's a controversial take, but I prefer what John Eaves did to the classic TOS Connie and updated it for DISCO & SNW.
My connietroversial Connie rankings:
- Refit
- TOS
- Kelvin
- Disco/SNW
- Kelvin Beyond
- Kelvin A
Does the Enterprise look different from one Kelvin film to the next? 
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Does the Enterprise look different from one Kelvin film to the next?
Kind of. It's the same in Star Trek (2009) and Into Darkness up until it gets badly damaged by the Vengeance. At the end we see it after extensive repairs and it has some differences (much larger impulse engines, slightly different nacelle fins, possibly additional phaser turrets):
Apparently it had further refit work between Into Darkness and Beyond because it then changes significantly between those films. The neck is made much skinnier; the nacelle pylons are swept back; and the nacelles themselves are physically smaller. This picture of the Eaglemoss models shows the differences quite well.
My headcanon is that we might assume the refit we see at the end of Into Darkness is supposed to be the Enterprise as we see her in Beyond. We only get a glimpse anyway so it's easy to write off any discrepancies.
I was looking for shots from Beyond to show off the difference, but they do a good job of hiding it with dramatic camera angles.
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It is one of Trek's little ironies that they fix a lot of the issues I had with the design of the Abramsverse Enterprise (namely those horribly unbalanced and badly positioned nacelles) at the beginning of Beyond and then almost immediately rip her apart...
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