But, he does make it clear Iaponius was included due to Sato. It is an on screen thing that was included, even if we don't know what that connection actually means.
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But, he does make it clear Iaponius was included due to Sato. It is an on screen thing that was included, even if we don't know what that connection actually means.
Seems pretty clear. It's the new emperor adopting a title of the old emperor to present herself as the legitimate continuation of the line, like the way Julius Caesar's cognomen was adopted by later emperors as a title meaning "ruler" (and eventually evolved into other titles like Kaiser and Czar).
She could still have gotten married, though the marriage was likely done for political gain rather than love. Likewise, when the marriage ended, it likely wasn't through divorce, thus explaining why you don't see Mr. Georgiou in the Mirror Universe.
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If we want to assume that the Emporer did not get her name from marriage, it may also be that Georgiou is a family name from several generations back by marriage but the majority of her lineage has been of east Asian descent. This doesn't coincide with Desperate Hours in which it is a name she kept from a divorce, but its the mirror universe. Everything is cook-y over there anyway.
Like how a hologram in one universe is somehow human in another supposedly parallel but twisted universe?
Exactly. Unless that dude was Felix, I guess.
Sometimes I feel like we have to talk about the Mirror Universe like we're making bad "In Soviet Russia.." jokes.
"FELIX, IN MIRROR UNIVERSE, HOLOGRAM PROGRAM YOU,"
I've always liked the theory that he was a robot. That way he is still an artificial lifeform.
Grade A thinking (but that's what they pay you for). I honestly don't remember that detail, but it definitely would explain that particular change between universes. That was probably in The Long Mirage.
I haven't read any of the DS9 books since The Fall, but that would make sense.
Doc Zimmerman modeled the EMH on himself; Noonien Soong did the same with Data and Lore; therefore I see no reason why Felix wouldn't do the same with Vic. And it would also explain the mirror version actually being Felix.
I vaguely remember this. It's also never explicitly stated that Vic is modeled off of Felix. I recall them actually getting in contact with him and no one makes the observation that they look alike...but they also don't HAVE to make that observation if they already knew Felix. But I'm in the camp that Vic was not actually modeled off of Felix.
I am enjoying JD's suggestion that muVic is a robot. One more drop for the 'the Mirror Universe is whacky' bucket.
^ But humans could not possibly create an android Vic in the MU. By that time, they are slaves and would never have access to that kind of technology.
^ I dunno, after all the zillions of androids we've seen in the novelverse and their respective makers or races of origin, he could be a random one. Crazier things have happened.
I cannot remember about the novels at the moment, but that is what I have always assumed.
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It wouldn't be the first time names didn't quite match across universes. Maxwell Forest versus Maximilian Forest.
Or "Patrick West" versus "Ivan West," for another example.
We have at least two iterations of the MU consistent with DS9 in which Data exists.