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IDW Mirror Image - TNG?

JoeZhang

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From, what I guess, are scheduling reasons, the current storyline in IDW's Mirror Image is going to take a break and the next issue will feature:


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Anyone know what the actual story will be?
 
From the solicitations:
In the third chapter of this all-new Mirror Universe saga, we jump ahead to a never-before-seen period for the Mirror Universe: the waning days of the war between the Empire and the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. As the Empire's sphere of influence shrinks with every losing battle, we ship out with the ISS Starbreaker, where a young navigator, Lieutenant Jean-Luc Picard, is forced into command of his crippled vessel, and must figure out a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, or sparing that, at least keep himself and his remaining crewmates alive to fight another day.
 
Man, is it ever disquieting to see any version of Picard giving that salute...

EDIT: Good that he looks like Shinzon, though.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
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Have we see a mirror universe picard in the books? What's he upto?

(I remember one in the shatnerverse...)
 
Have we see a mirror universe picard in the books? What's he upto?

Greg Cox's entry had MU Picard. He was an Indiana Jones-esque 'freelance archaeologist' (if not to say tomb robber) initially the employ of a Cardassian patron. I thought it was a particularly nice touch for Greg to present a law-and-order type like Picard as being the morally compromised character in a universe where the 'bad guys' rule where a roguish character like Vash (also in the story) is more straighforwardly heroic.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
I'm a little confused... I've heard it suggested that Mirror Images is compatible with the current Pocket MU continuity, but The Sorrows of Empire had the Terran Empire dissolved in 2293 and conquered two years later. Picard wasn't even born until 2305. So is this in a different continuity, or is the idea that some vestige of the Empire continued to exist and fight on for some 30-odd years after the main Empire ceased to exist? There's certainly precedent; the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire thrived for a millennium after the fall of Rome.
 
I'm a little confused... I've heard it suggested that Mirror Images is compatible with the current Pocket MU continuity, but The Sorrows of Empire had the Terran Empire dissolved in 2293 and conquered two years later. Picard wasn't even born until 2305. So is this in a different continuity, or is the idea that some vestige of the Empire continued to exist and fight on for some 30-odd years after the main Empire ceased to exist? There's certainly precedent; the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire thrived for a millennium after the fall of Rome.

Unless picard was born sooner and lives longer in this continuity.
 
I'm a little confused... I've heard it suggested that Mirror Images is compatible with the current Pocket MU continuity, but The Sorrows of Empire had the Terran Empire dissolved in 2293 and conquered two years later. Picard wasn't even born until 2305. So is this in a different continuity, or is the idea that some vestige of the Empire continued to exist and fight on for some 30-odd years after the main Empire ceased to exist? There's certainly precedent; the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire thrived for a millennium after the fall of Rome.

In the TNG episode Parrallels, we saw that there werre at least 285,000 different continuities/realities in the ST universe (multiverse?).

Surely there is more than one variation of the MU in that batch. So all the different variations we've seen in the comics, novels, and series can be valid.

Everyone is happy, right?
 
In the TNG episode Parrallels, we saw that there werre at least 285,000 different continuities/realities in the ST universe (multiverse?).

Surely there is more than one variation of the MU in that batch. So all the different variations we've seen in the comics, novels, and series can be valid.

You missed my point. Obviously there are multiple different Mirror Universe continuities already extant in Trek Literature. My point is that I'd heard that the Mirror Images miniseries would be consistent with the specific Mirror Universe continuity seen in Glass Empires, Obsidian Alliances, Shards and Shadows, and the DS9 Relaunch. And the description of this story doesn't seem compatible with that continuity.
 
Did we see a mirror Picard in Stargazer: Three? Actually, would that book "fit" with the current MU stuff? It's been so long since I've read it and I don't quite recall.
 
Did we see a mirror Picard in Stargazer: Three? Actually, would that book "fit" with the current MU stuff?

IIRC, no and no. In fact, I have the impression that the book itself suggested that the characters who crossed over were from a Mirror Universe that might not have been the exact same MU we'd seen in the shows.
 
In the TNG episode Parrallels, we saw that there werre at least 285,000 different continuities/realities in the ST universe (multiverse?).

Surely there is more than one variation of the MU in that batch. So all the different variations we've seen in the comics, novels, and series can be valid.

You missed my point. Obviously there are multiple different Mirror Universe continuities already extant in Trek Literature. My point is that I'd heard that the Mirror Images miniseries would be consistent with the specific Mirror Universe continuity seen in Glass Empires, Obsidian Alliances, Shards and Shadows, and the DS9 Relaunch. And the description of this story doesn't seem compatible with that continuity.

As memory would have it, I think you're mistaken, but it's actually not your fault. Originally, there was to be a second "Mirror Images" series set in the TNG era to immediately follow the TOS one. Though it wasn't exactly intended to have the comprehensive consistency that you're talking about, I believe that's what you're actually thinking of when you say that the TNG story was supposed to follow the books.
 
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