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Mirror Bashir

Trill naming conventions don't work like that. When they're joined, they take the name of the symbiont as their surname. Ergo, Ezri Tigan became Ezri Dax. Jadzia's pre-joining last name was never revealed, but we know for a fact that a Dax symbiont exists because we've seen it multiple times on screen, coming out of or being put into Jadzia or Ezri.

Uh, yes, I know. I'm talking about Mirror Jadzia. Did they ever refer to her as Dax?
 
Easily solved. Felix based his holo-program on a guy he knows.

In the mirror Universe, we hear Mirror Bashir call him 'Fontaine'. So apparently, the name of the 'original' was the same (the family name at the very least).

I'm not sure I would be too happy if (in the prime universe) there was a hologram walking around with both my face and my name.

Possibilities:
1. Holo-vic was programmed without knowledge of the original. That wouldn't exactly be ethical.
2. The 'original' Fontaine gave his consent for his name and image to be used. I guess that's just about possible but I wouldn't know why anyone would do that. Even an egomaniac like Dr. Zimmermann who gave the EMH his own face didn't call the Mark 1 'Zimmermann'.
 
Maybe altBashir didn't have developmental issues as a kid.

Maybe both Bashir's issues were minor.

Or maybe prime Bashir just hit his head as a child, and that explains his cognitive issues. His parents just needed to fix the damage, but figured while we're here, what the hey, let's juice up his IQ a bit.

Easily solved. Felix based his holo-program on a guy he knows.

Perfect explanation.

Not that surprising that a Terran freedom fighter would get pleasure out of torturing the Intendant. I don't think you need to postulate "extra sadistic" for that. What do you think Kira would have done if Dukat had fallen into her hands during the occupation?

It would make an entertaining, if VERY R-rated, fanfiction.

Uh, yes, I know. I'm talking about Mirror Jadzia. Did they ever refer to her as Dax?

Did Joining even exist in the MU?
 
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There's no way MU Bashir could be enhanced. Terran slaves would never have access to that kind of technology.

Did Joining even exist in the MU?

Why wouldn't it?

We know Ezri wasn't joined, but not sure about Jadzia. When Sisko meets her, he impulsively calls her Dax, but that's just because he knows her prime counterpart.

In the novelverse, Jadzia was NOT joined, and Curzon was Dax's final host.
 
Uh, yes, I know. I'm talking about Mirror Jadzia. Did they ever refer to her as Dax?
My bad. I'm sorry for misunderstanding.

Answering your question, yes. From "Through the Looking Glass":

JENNIFER: Dax tells me you're leaving.
SISKO: I thought I'd pay the Romulans a visit. See if I can convince them to help us.
 
Definitely hold him hostage and keep him hostage until the Cardassian government ended the occupation.

Or, you know, the Cardassian Central Command might've gone "He's a wrong'un. Keep him."

I'm pretty sure Cardassia would have said it was his fault for getting himself taken prisoner and written him off for dead, definitely not negotiated.
 
Possibly. Wasn't Dukat already on the outs with Central Command and was made Prefect of Terok Nor as a way to punish him?

It also may have been a more general Cardassian mentality, and not even been particularly biased towards Dukat personally. 'If you lose (i.e. in this case, lose the station), death is an appropriate punishment'. It does seem a bit like a 'win or die' culture.
 
Possibly. Wasn't Dukat already on the outs with Central Command and was made Prefect of Terok Nor as a way to punish him?

Perhaps. I was thinking they would probably just have a policy of never negotiating with the Maquis. As Kira said once, when you start negotiating with terrorists they've won.
 
I LOVED mirror Bashir but then I'm a Bashir fan. He was so arrogant and brash to the point where he pissed of Sisko and he got way punched out by him. I think he falls onto a table and it crashes. It was a huge departure from canon Bashir which made it even more amusing. It looked like he and Jadzia ended up together in that timeline. Even though it was implied (or more?) that she did the deed with Sisko. That Sisko was implied to be a big jerk.
 
Were Trill even subjugated by the Alliance? Surely they were a subjugated race that the Empire ran, but post fall they'd be liberated. Did the alliance simply take over the rule? If so why didn't they with Bajor?

Jadzia wsa there because she was 'friendly' with Ben. Ezri was there because she worked with Brunt. Neither of those suggest that Trill was nothing more than an independent planet.
 
Were Trill even subjugated by the Alliance? Surely they were a subjugated race that the Empire ran, but post fall they'd be liberated. Did the alliance simply take over the rule? If so why didn't they with Bajor?

Jadzia wsa there because she was 'friendly' with Ben. Ezri was there because she worked with Brunt. Neither of those suggest that Trill was nothing more than an independent planet.

Hard to say. It seems like Vulcans are treated much in the same way as Terrans by the Alliance.

I feel like the Alliance tends to see things as more "Imperial vs. Not Imperial"... the Bajorans don't appear to have been conquered by the Terran Empire, so they were cool to join the Alliance.

If your world had been under the thumb of the Terran Empire, you might as well be Terran.

I question how the Klingons got so powerful though, since DSC "graced" us with more Mirror Universe... and in the 2250's the Terran Empire had destroyed Qo'nos and it seemed like were well on their way to exterminating the Klingons wholesale.
 
Were Trill even subjugated by the Alliance? Surely they were a subjugated race that the Empire ran, but post fall they'd be liberated. Did the alliance simply take over the rule? If so why didn't they with Bajor?

Jadzia wsa there because she was 'friendly' with Ben. Ezri was there because she worked with Brunt. Neither of those suggest that Trill was nothing more than an independent planet.

IIRC, in one of the MU stories the symbionts are annihilated by the Terran Empire as a threat (probably because they're essentially repositories of history). From onscreen evidence we know the Trill themselves were spared.
 
Almost certainly not. Such technology would not have been available to Terrans.
It could have been done illegally. But, in fact, not so different from the prime universe since there it had been done illegally too.
 
I LOVED mirror Bashir but then I'm a Bashir fan. He was so arrogant and brash to the point where he pissed of Sisko and he got way punched out by him. I think he falls onto a table and it crashes. It was a huge departure from canon Bashir which made it even more amusing. It looked like he and Jadzia ended up together in that timeline. Even though it was implied (or more?) that she did the deed with Sisko. That Sisko was implied to be a big jerk.
That was Prime Sisko, impersonating Mirror Sisko who was dead, who was the big jerk, right?
 
IIRC, in one of the MU stories the symbionts are annihilated by the Terran Empire as a threat (probably because they're essentially repositories of history). From onscreen evidence we know the Trill themselves were spared.

The Terran Empire didn't seem to be overly genocidal, to the point of their 22nd century ship crews being actually pretty damn diverse.

They seemed to prefer to subjugate aliens to serve the Empire.
 
The Terran Empire didn't seem to be overly genocidal, to the point of their 22nd century ship crews being actually pretty damn diverse.

They seemed to prefer to subjugate aliens to serve the Empire.
Going by the novelverse, when Spock became Emperor he "took care of" many telepathic civilizations not necessarily because he wanted to, but because any civilization that could read his mind would be aware of his plans to weaken the Empire so it could be conquered.

IIRC, the issue with the Trill symbionts was that they could engage in infiltration.

Of course, in "Mirror, Mirror" we know that MU Kirk likely would have devastated if not annihilated the Halkans.
 
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