Characters you wanted to see in the MU

[Thor Damar]

Mirror Weyoun hates the Mirror Founders and dedicates his life to crushing them.

And I also second or third or fourth the nominations for MU Dukat and MU Damar.

How about the Romulans? Are they the Vulcans of the MU?

Well, in my own personal MU (that I was working on with JustKate), Sarek's reforms never took hold so there wasn't an exodus from Vulcan. Therefore the Vulcans are even more aggressive than in ENT and the Vulcan Imperium ruled over a significant part of the AQ, or at least until the Terran- Andorian Alliance came calling

So that part of the Beta Quadrant that became the RSE in the OTL is either empty or fulled with minor powers. (The Klingon Regency is...otherwise occupied of course). The Cardassians and Terrans are mostly as they where in the other MUs just smarter (one hopes).

 

[DevilEyes]

Mirror Weyoun hates the Mirror Founders and dedicates his life to crushing them.

And I also second or third or fourth the nominations for MU Dukat and MU Damar.

How about the Romulans? Are they the Vulcans of the MU?

Well, in my own personal MU (that I was working on with JustKate), Sarek's reforms never took hold so there wasn't an exodus from Vulcan. Therefore the Vulcans are even more aggressive than in ENT and the Vulcan Imperium ruled over a significant part of the AQ, or at least until the Terran- Andorian Alliance came calling

How would those Vulcans, militaristic and technologically more advanced, ever get beaten by those backward Terrans? Nah, I can't see it. And if that was the case, where were the Andorians in ENT and TOS MU? Shouldn't that have been "Terran-Andorian Empire" (or Andorian-Terran Empire"), then?

 

[indolover]

^ In TNG: Parallels, how was it that all those different universes had Enterprises, and Worfs, and Rikers, etc.?

If there is a point of divergence from the "normal" universe, it could be as far back as the Big Bang, with Earth just getting caught in the crossfire, so to speak. I never got the impression (from TOS, DS9, or ENT) that there was something special about Mirror Earth that caused the MU to diverge.

The MU is just a parallel universe where things are slightly different. I'm sure that in the whole Trek multi-verse there is at least one universe where Earth, Bajor, Cardassia, and Qu'onos never existed.

My take on the MU is that the Western Roman Empire never fell, and the Terran Empire is just an extension of that. All major figures in history still existed, but had slightly different roles. Columbus discovered America because Caesar told him to do it, not for new trade routes. And Hitler was a good guy, who led Germany in a revolt to uproot Caesar's tyranny. But like in the real universe he lost.

 

[Admiral Shran]

But we don't see any evidence that all other races were affected. The only differences are with those cultures that were affected by the Terran Empire. The Vulcans had been interacting with the Humans since the 21st century (and according to ENT, were conquered by Terrans by the 22nd centrury), the Halkans and the Gorn don't seem to be different, the Cardassians and the Klingons have presumably formed an alliance in order to fight the Terran Empire. Bajorans were also enslaved by the Terran Empire and liberated by the Klingon-Cardassian alliance, which explains their being their allies.

The only changes in the MU that we know of are those brought upon by the formation of the Terran Empire and its imperialistic policy in the Alpha Quadrant. There is no reason to think that the races that live in Gamma, Beta or Delta Quadrant were affected by it.

You make good points. However, for me, personally, I perfer to see the MU as not reliant on Earth for it's formation. That's just me.

Speaking of points of divergence.... Wasn't there a TNG novel which dealt with the TNG Mirror Universe, before DS9 came along, that said that the point where the two split apart was during the Trojan War, when Achilles refused to show compassion towards Priam?

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

^ Dark Mirror by Diane Duane.

add another vote from me to see MU Dukat and MU Damar. With the show, the folks on the station, didn't know about the wormhole, so most likely don't know about anything beyond the wormhole. Maybe in that universe, there is some other power in Gamma Quadrant.

Also, with the Romulans, Sisko said he could find work with them during season 3 episode, when leaving the rebellion. more about them would interesting.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Then why isn't everything different? How can there be another Bajor, and another Cardassia, and another Qu'onos, and another Earth?

There are an infinite number of parallel universes, so the chance that those things exist is at the same time infinitely good, and infinitely remote.

To put it another way: The likelihood that a particular universe WON'T have a Bajor, Cardassia, Earth, etc. is no greater than that of one that will have those planets.