Favorite Alternate Reality stories

[JD]

I thought that with all of the alternate realities stuff coming out soon, such as the newly announced Alternate Realities Fan Collective, Myriad Universes, and Fearful Symmetry, it might kinda fun to do a thread about our favorite alternate reality stories (MU included). They don't have to be entirely set in an AR, I just mean stories that include ARs as a big part of the story.
Mine would be, in no particlular order:
Q, Squared
Age of the Empress
The Sorrows of Empire
The Mirror Scaled Serpent
Warpath

 

[KRAD]

The Mirror Scaled Serpent

Aw, thanks!

My favorite has to be The Sorrows of Empire. I suspect that it will have some company when the two MyrU books are released.

 

[JoeZhang]

Mirror image - I don't actualy like it that much as a story but I like the concept - features an ISS. I have zero interest in the "hey fat bastard fanboy, your favourite wank fantasy is a bi!" universe.

 

[HIj'Qa]

Mirror, Mirror and Yesterday's Enterprise are two of my favorite Star Trek stories. They give a glimpse of familiar characters and situations tossed up and changed around. I like thinking about the possibilities of how and why things are different, and how alternately things could proceed. I haven't been too keen on the novel-length exposition of alt Star Trek. They seem to take things to the extreme opposite end - all sex and violence, and try to fit in every character and tell 500 years of alt history. Makes me wish for just a glimpse again.

I like Dark Mirror for telling a story with variations on the characters that I believed possible in a Terran Empire. I like the Shatnerverse look at the 'mirror universe,' possibly because it is told over several books.

I'm interested in the upcoming Myriad U. Hopefully it will provide glimpses into alt realities that stimulate me to think about the possibilites and how things can change and go different ways.

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

I'm a bit biased in saying this since it was the first Star Trek book I ever read, but my favorite alternate reality story has to be Q-Squared, although I, Q and Cutting Ties are close seconds.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I thought the Dark Passions novels were good, because of the look they gave at the Mirror Universe. I know that not many people seem to enjoy them, but what made them attractive to me was the way they showed the politics of the MU and fleshed out a lot of it for me.

The Mirror-Scaled Serpent is a definite favorite, as is The Sorrows of Empire and Age of the Empress.

Actually, I enjoyed *all* the MU stories thus far. *shrug*

I'm a Trek Lit whore.

 

[LightningStorm]

Millennium Trilogy's alternate future
The Sorrows of Empire
Engines of Destiny

 

[captcalhoun]

Sorrows of Empire
the Mirror Universe Saga comic
Age of the Empress
the reality-hopping in Q&A

 

[Lukara]

I'm a bit biased in saying this since it was the first Star Trek book I ever read, but my favorite alternate reality story has to be Q-Squared, although I, Q and Cutting Ties are close seconds.

Great minds. I, too, vote for "Q-squared"

 

[doublegood]

Millennium Trilogy's alternate future

I thought the future depicted in those novels was legitimately frightening. Although the concept of the entire universe ending based on the events in one tiny section of one tiny galaxy seemed kind of silly, the future as depicted was definitely disturbing.

 

[JD]

Sorrows of Empire
the Mirror Universe Saga comic
Age of the Empress
the reality-hopping in Q&A

Oh yeah, I forgot about the stuff in Q&A, that was really cool too.

 

[T'Leisha]

Sorrows of the Empire, followed by Age of the Empress.
Perhaps the Dark Passions books also, because they were the first MU books i read.

 

[David Mack]

^ Just to be nitpicky, the correct title of my Mirror Universe short novel was The Sorrows of Empire.

 

[JD]

What is it about that title makes it so hard to remember what order the words go it? Becuase I have that same problem alot myself, I don't know how many times I've had to look it up to make sure I got it right.

 

[David Mack]

My guess is that most people find the word "empire" unfamiliar without the definite article in front of it. They associate the word with its most common definition, that of a nation state or assemblage of such states, and less with its alternative definitions:

4. supreme power in governing; imperial power; sovereignty: Austria's failure of empire in central Europe.

5. supreme control; absolute sway: passion's empire over the mind.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

Could be worse.

Could be Fo Tsrow Eht
Sdlrow Htob

 

[Christopher]

What is it about that title makes it so hard to remember what order the words go it? Becuase I have that same problem alot myself, I don't know how many times I've had to look it up to make sure I got it right.

In addition to Dave's undoubtedly correct explanation, there's also the fact that many titles are in the form "____ of the ____." So the mind would tend to default to that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Dark Mirror is my favorite, I think.

I definitely don't care much for the current state of the MU, with the fall of the Empire and all that. I bloody well hate the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. I hope Spock's plan to bring it down will eventually succeed. (At the very least, I hope that the writers haven't forgotten about it!)

Other (non-MU) alternates I like: Echoes (the VOY novel) and Q-Squared.

 

[Starbreaker]

Q-Squared!

 

[Quimby]

I thought that with all of the alternate realities stuff coming out soon, such as the newly announced Alternate Realities Fan Collective, Myriad Universes, and Fearful Symmetry, it might kinda fun to do a thread about our favorite alternate reality stories (MU included). They don't have to be entirely set in an AR, I just mean stories that include ARs as a big part of the story.
Mine would be, in no particlular order:
Q, Squared
Age of the Empress
The Sorrows of Empire
The Mirror Scaled Serpent
Warpath

I love'em all. I am a sucker for alternate realities. I remember many many moons ago John Ordover asked us to compile a list of all of the alternate realities that had showed up in onscreen. My mouth watered for whatever project that information was intended for but alas it never seemed end up a completed work.