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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x05 - "Mirrors"

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The writers (again) are getting warp travel confused with hyperspace. You can follow a ship that has gone to warp, and the Discovery should easily be able to catch it.
We don't know what 32nd century warp rules are like. Maybe it's more like Star Wars now.
 
The I.S.S. Enterprise viewscreen from outside compared to the SNW Season 2 Enterprise viewscreen in an external shot.

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Ah yes, the magical tunnel that is only visible from the outside and never the inside. A pet peeve going back to 2009:lol:
 
The writers (again) are getting warp travel confused with hyperspace. You can follow a ship that has gone to warp, and the Discovery should easily be able to catch it.
Especially since in the first episode, Mol and Lak intentionally create fake warp signatures to throw off Discovery’s ability to track their heading.

If it was inherently impossible to track 32nd century warp drive, they wouldn’t have to use a countermeasure in the first place.

And even the countermeasure didn’t make sense, given Discovery has a Spore Drive. They could have jumped instantaneously to the points along every possible heading and found Mol’s and Lak’s ship that way.
 
The writers (again) are getting warp travel confused with hyperspace. You can follow a ship that has gone to warp, and the Discovery should easily be able to catch it.
They said they could track it. That said, they may head for the next clue instead.
 
Ready Room last week had a segment on The Breen


The person who write the episode said it’s Spock, so it’s Spock

It lines up with what we know from DS9
as I wrote before, they clearly implied it was Spock but didn’t outright say it in order to keep open the option for future stories.
 
Not until it's confirmed onscreen.

And again: The High Chancellor was killed for trying to make reforms. Spock actually SUCCEEDED in making reforms.
Spock made reforms, and in retaliation, Tiberius created an alliance with the Klingons and cardassians to destroy the Terran empire.
 
You say that like it's a bad thing. ;)

srsly, I am a literalist. It's just what I do. :shrug:



There can't be an ISS Enterprise-D, since the Empire collapsed long before that ship would have been built.

If any Mirror TNG characters appear, they would be slaves. Like Smiley O'Brien.

Fair enough, though we don't know what happened in the Mirror after "The Emperor's New Cloak", and so a new empire could've happened, and we could get a Mirror Enterprise-D, E, F, or G, and they could've used the ST: Picard sets (if they are still around), or the ST: Picard designs. Personally, I've always just wanted to see Mirror TNG in live action. (The non-canon comics did come up with a neat idea to still find a way to have a TNG Mirror series that doesn't overturn what DS9 established.

There's also the different Mirror reality from DISCO Season 3. That allows them to do anything inside that alternate reality.
 
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According to IDW comics, and made canon in Prodigy season 2, the majority of the Empire is gone, but they still control a small area around Sol and have their imperial ships and all.
 
Except it doesn't. The ISS Enterprise was built on TOS specs since that's what the Defiant came in. Then the ISS Enterprise got refit to SNW specs because, aside from that configuration being in the Defiant's computer logs for the 2250s, people in the Mirror Universe could just have plain liked that setup better (who wouldn't) and changed it to that. That's it.

I mean, in theory but why would they restore basically an "older model" version of the Connie? Surely the purpose of a refit is... that it is better than it was? Why return to an older design?

Probably best not to overthink it too much.. :hugegrin:
 
If you go back and watch TOS Mirror Mirror again, you will see that the ISS Enterprise never even received the Pike to Kirk refit in the first place. Under mirror Kirk's command it's still got the chonky dome, big dish, and pointy nacelles from The Cage. So the ISS has no bearing on the Prime universe's post-Pike refit. The Pike era enterprise (for as little as it appeared in TOS) may have been retconned (which I'm fine with), but a Kirk refit is still on the table for the Prime Enterprise's future. It never happened in the mirror universe.

Good thought - basically we're just taking the existing retcon of the Enterprise's appearance from "The Cage" and extending that to use of stock footage from that episode used in "Mirror, Mirror". Works for me! Though it doesn't explain the interiors..
 
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I mean, in theory but why would they restore basically an "older model" version of the Connie? Surely the purpose of a refit is... that it is better than it was? Why return to an older design?

Probably best not to overthink it too much.. :hugegrin:
Because the mirror universe guys aren't like those bizarre 2260s misguided interior designers and realize like most people that the 2250s config looks better and more futuristic ;)
 
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