It doesn't work like that. Otherwise Pike would be dead in the Prime Universe.In Mirror, Mirror Chekov tries to assassinate Kirk, but one of his henchmen helps Kirk defeat the attempt. In the process the henchman disintegrates two mirror universe blue jumpsuit dudes with his phaser. Okay, here's the conundrum...what happens to those same 2 dudes in the normal universe? Do they just disappear?
Where is it said there would be a balance? Mirror Kirk is supposed to wipe out the Halkans. Prime Kirk is making nice with them.
It's how they move up in rank on the MirrorBBS
In Mirror, Mirror Chekov tries to assassinate Kirk, but one of his henchmen helps Kirk defeat the attempt. In the process the henchman disintegrates two mirror universe blue jumpsuit dudes with his phaser. Okay, here's the conundrum...what happens to those same 2 dudes in the normal universe? Do they just disappear?
Like Nerys Myk said above, nothing. People can die in one universe but not the other. Don't forget that according to the ship's log, one of Mirror Kirk's first missions involved destroying a planet. It's a safe bet that Prime Kirk didn't do anything like that in our universe. And we have confirmation that Mirror Pike is dead while Prime Pike was still alive. Heck, the DS9 MU episodes were filled with regulars dying over in the MU.In Mirror, Mirror Chekov tries to assassinate Kirk, but one of his henchmen helps Kirk defeat the attempt. In the process the henchman disintegrates two mirror universe blue jumpsuit dudes with his phaser. Okay, here's the conundrum...what happens to those same 2 dudes in the normal universe? Do they just disappear?
In my view, in fact that underscores, if not from a "literary perspective" indicates, why MM would have been better as a one-off. Making the Halkans the "fixed point" in the transposition means that the mirroring is in a sense about the Halkans. MM metaphorically asks the Federation to look at itself in the mirror and ask not only "What if the Federation were evil?" but also "What would it be like if there were no Prime Directive?" Those questions are given specific relevance to the case of the Halkans; that's the Mirror Universe's raison d'être.
Similar currents in time, something to do with the concept Spock described in COTEOF: "There is a theory. There could be some logic to the belief that time is fluid, like a river, with currents, eddies, backwash."
Yes. But as I noted in the other MU thread currently going, the head of the Halkans looks quite a bit more haggard in the MU. He's obviously had a harder life than his counterpart.
Yeah, but I don't think that the Mirror Universe is supposed to be an alternate timeline. It's a parallel universe that, for whatever reason, skews more evil than the Prime Universe. People are always looking for a point of digression from the history of the regular Trek Universe, and I don't think there is one. I think it's always been that way.
