How would you feel if "Discovery" is revealed to be set in a mirror universe?

[Jayson1]

This seems to be the big new theory and I was wondering if it would impact how you see the show? I know it would make the canon fans happy but would anyone think less of the show if you couldn't pretend it was connected to the other shows in quite the same way as the older shows? Also would it impact how you want to see things? Would you start to want to see those big alternate changes like Vulcan being destroyed or Pike being killed etc or would you still want it to sort of continue as if the show was more of less a show that will have much of the same canon stuff happen like it did in the older shows?

Jason

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Relieved.

 

[Tesophius]

It would explain a lot. I would welcome it as an explanation.

 

[GeekUSACarl]

Well as long as it was cleverly written I suppose I wouldn't care. Good writing is good writing ya know... I could see it not being a big deal.

But I would wonder, if this was the Mirror universe, where are all the beards and gotees?

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Although it will be like Lost all over again. So they were in purgatory all this time after all!

 

[Jayson1]

I made the thread and kind of forgot to add my opinion. Me I would love it. Canon would be respected but to me that is the least important reason why I would like it. I love alternate timelines as a concept. It and time travel might be my two favorite sci-fi concepts. I guess I should add robots as well to that list.

Also I would most certainly be for the big change stuff happening, though I would more or less like that their still to be a Enterprise with all the familiar characters aboard.

Jason

 

[Mirror Mirror]

No way this is the mirror vese.

 

[Mudd]

It would make no difference to me. It's either good on a given week or not.

 

[Jayson1]

Well as long as it was cleverly written I suppose I wouldn't care. Good writing is good writing ya know... I could see it not being a big deal.

But I would wonder, if this was the Mirror universe, where are all the beards and gotees?

I don't think it would be THAT mirror universe but one more like our old one, only in this universe tech looks different and human retina's haven't evolved to a point were they can live in area's with to much light, thus explaining the darkness.

Jason

 

[Kor]

It wouldn't be the mirror universe that we have seen before.

There is a Federation that comes in peace instead of a brutal Terran Empire. There was a brutal Terran Empire in the ENT era, and there was a brutal Terran Empire in TOS.

Kor

 

[GeekUSACarl]

I don't think it would be THAT mirror universe but one more like our old one, only in this universe tech looks different and human retina's haven't evolved to a point were they can live in area's with to much light, thus explaining the darkness.

Jason

Well that takes the fun out of it!

No beards = no mirrorverse

dangnabit!

 

[Butters]

I would feel deceived. Like when the makers of BSG told us there was a plan week after week, but it turned out they were making it up as they went went along.

We're told that this is prime, I'm paying for this thing.

 

[Spider]

I you can have a mirror universe, then you can have lots of them. This would just be one of many, with many more to visit.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I would definitely welcome if it this was an another alternate timeline, just so it could have the freedom to do whatever the hell it wants regardless of what happened in later-set Trek shows (like bring in the Romulans or the Borg, have the Enterprise destroyed with all hands aboard, or even have the Federation collapse or whatever).

 

[KennyB]

Irritated.....

 

[Noname Given]

This seems to be the big new theory and I was wondering if it would impact how you see the show? I know it would make the canon fans happy but would anyone think less of the show if you couldn't pretend it was connected to the other shows in quite the same way as the older shows? Also would it impact how you want to see things? Would you start to want to see those big alternate changes like Vulcan being destroyed or Pike being killed etc or would you still want it to sort of continue as if the show was more of less a show that will have much of the same canon stuff happen like it did in the older shows?

Jason

You proceed with a false assumption.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

It's a re-imagining of the Mirror universe. You can't expect it to look like the Mirrorverse of the '60s now do you?

 

[Jayson1]

I would feel deceived. Like when the makers of BSG told us there was a plan week after week, but it turned out they were making it up as they went went along.

We're told that this is prime, I'm paying for this thing.

It would still be prime in the same way the mirror universe shows are prime or even the Kelvin Universe because of the Nimoy/Spock thing. I do think they would want to establish this though on the show in some fashion if they did do this. Perhaps they encounter a "Discovery" with 60's looking sets and uniforms or it could be as simply as them using their spore drive and finding they are lost and they pick up a subspace transmission and when they open it up it is Jeffrey Hunter(using old footage or CGI) talking to someone about something. They then start up the spore drive and then they are in some other place.

Jason

 

[Longinus]

The producers were talking about how it may seem like they're breaking the canon, but it will all make sense in the end (I doubt it.) One way to do it would indeed be some sort of parallel universe, but then it would really not be prime, would it? Other similar, but slightly different way would be 'Yesterday's Enterprise' style divergent time line, which would be reset by time travel at some point. In this scenario we would be now observing things basically going shit from the Federation PoV since Burnham's fuck up in the Battle of the Binary stars. At some point she will travel back in time to that moment, and fix her mistake, basically erasing the divergent time line.

I really hope that this is not the case, but it is a thing that occurred to me when I heard 'it will make sense in the end' thing.

 

[Vger23]

I wouldn't care. My goal is to be entertained...not to have a clear handle on how what I'm watching fits into "canon."