How would you feel if "Discovery" is revealed to be set in a mirror universe?
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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?
I know you’re being cheeky, but that’s not really what people have been arguing. A visual update but not a re-imaging. A re-imaging is nu-BSG or Burton’s PotA.
It would be the end of the world as we know it.....or maybe not.
Its the sonic shower universe!
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Gonzo
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I won't mind either way personally, it won't affect whether I enjoy the show or not.
It doesn't feel like a mirror universe to me though, one too many snowflake Admirals and "Starfleet doesn't fire first" statements.
It doesn't feel like a mirror universe to me though, one too many snowflake Admirals and "Starfleet doesn't fire first" statements.
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Gonzo
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Thing is the Klingon war still happened in the prime timeline so the difference would be marginal at best.
I hope they think it through properly if they do.
It's a reboot of the mirror universe, which means the real universe (when we see it) will also be a reboot. Unless they find another mirror universe. We could have several mirror universes. In fact, we should visit multiple mirror universes, one of them will surely have them back in their pastel jammies.
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Gonzo
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They act like they are under a lot of pressure which is understandable as there is a war on and they are ultimately just scientists who now find themselves on a warship.
For instance Saru is an ideal officer for an explorer or science vessel but he has no business being on a warship, he hasn't got the right mentality for it, yet there he is on a warship along with Stamets and they clearly don't like it.
The only two characters who seemed ok with it are Lorca and Landry (RIP) which does beg the question of why a student of war like Lorca would be given Captaincy of a science vessel in the first place.
Burnham needs to stop feeling sorry for herself as careers can be remade in war, there is just as much opportunity in war as there is destruction.
I would be irritated unless there was a very good story reason to validate that decision -- that is, NOT because there are some fans irate about visual continuity, which to me is a thoroughly meaningless thing to get upset about. But good stories are good stories. If it's a good story, sure. If it's to dry angry fandom tears, then no.
Like they did with Edison in the 2100s?
Actually DS9's first crossover episode I felt did a good job of being more subtle in showing that everyone isn't bad in the mirror universe. Granted they went for more campy fun in the later episodes but different universe's don't have to be written like they have been. You can have the "Fringe" way and be more complex. Also this show has space monsters and spore drives so I think alternate universe's would fit in find. In fact I am surprised how much the show doesn't feel all that more edgy than "DS9."
Jason
I see it as a reboot anyway. It wouldn't affect that. An in universe reboot and an out of universe reboot are different flavours of the same thing. It will still take a lot of mental exercise for me to see it as it's own thing for me. I don't especially like reboots. It's certainly a better reboot than the JJ films but it's still a reboot. And the way it presents itself, as this high-budget, highly serialised, 10-episode season (I know it's 13 for this show, but the point is that it's similar in style to a lot of other 10 episode season shows), very serious show make me overly critical of everything. The old star treks were enjoyable even at their worst because they didn't take themselves so seriously all the time. Their episodic nature made it easier to forgive inconsistencies and bad writing. The relative cheesy-ness of everything made me not question when something silly happened. The old shows didn't explain everything, they just hand-waved it, but they got away with it because of how they were presented. An explanation wouldn't change the fact that it just doesn't feel right to me. It would just make the show easier to ignore, just like people ignore the JJ movies. Which I'm not sure is a good or bad thing.
In fairness, no one has tried to have sex with themselves yet and there is a distinct lack of midriffs on display.
I agree, that is why I think this alternate universe would be more like the prime were Starfleet is still good and so forth. I'm not sure why people jump to the idea that a alternate universe has to be "evil" like in the Mirror Universe stories. I mean the Kelvin Universe doesn't have a evil Federation and it's just another alternate universe as well.
Jason
Why was General Groves put in charge of a science project (the Manhattan Project)?
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