MU eye trouble. How?

[F. King Daniel]

So, "the singular biological difference between our species" according to Emperor Georgiou is that Mirror humans have an increased sensitivity to light.

Anyone want to speculate how this came about? Heavier cloud cover following nuclear winters on Mirror Earth? Everyone there spending too long indoors?

 

[Lord Garth]

Less sunlight filters through Earth's atmosphere, making all life on the planet predisposed to being more sensitive to light.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The mirror universe's quantum signature causes slight differences in the human eye. "Their rods and cones are all screwed up!"

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[marlboro]

The best thing about being a Trek writer? The show's fans will always come behind you to fix your mistakes, no matter how dumb they may be.

Except for the Warp 10 Lizards. You're on your own with that one.

 

[The Wormhole]

They never turn their lights on, eventually this has an impact on photosensitivity. Hell, I always have the light off if I'm watching TV or on the computer at night. And now any kind of sunlight is too much for my eyes to bear. Seriously, I need to wear sunglasses on dull gray-sky cloudy days, because even that is too bright for me.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Are we supposed to believe that all the continents on planet Earth are flipped right to left too? Does the Earth orbit counter-clockwise...? Canon doesn't support that Terran Empire emblem with Enterprise before, the Original yet to come or the patches given to humans under Cardassian/Klingon subjugation. And the Mirror universe isn't literally a mirror reflection, with everyone's faces and the partings in their hair the wrong way around. Like most things in Discovery the artistic licence to change for change sake, just goes one unnecessary step too far for me.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Parents and schools have little agony booths for their misbehaving children, and later, adults who infringe on traffic rules like jaywalking and speeding get their rods shortened in a booth too.

 

[The Wormhole]

Does the Earth orbit counter-clockwise...?

The animated graphic of the Terran Empire logo used in the opening credits of the Enterprise episodes actually does show Earth spinning in the opposite direction. Though, in Disco the computer files the crew look up detailing the Terran Empire do include an animated logo with Earth spinning the proper direction.

 

[ChristopherPike]

The animated graphic of the Terran Empire logo used in the opening credits of the Enterprise episodes actually does show Earth spinning in the opposite direction.

No, it doesn't.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yes it does. Based on the way Earth is spinning in that clip, the sun would rise in the west and set in the east. Completely opposite of how it actually spins. Just watch the clip for yourself.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Well I'll be damned! It never occurred to me there was anything wrong with that rotation. Maybe I shouldn't put a higher wattage bulb on, just in case it blinds me.

Still not sure why the makers of Discovery decided all the land masses needed to be flipped...

 

[Guy Gardener]

If the planet is seen up side down, then it will seem to rotate the opposite way.

Big block of cheese day.

 

[Psion]

It rotates that way because it's in a mirror.

 

[BillJ]

Much like Vulcan nasal numbing, it is best to just forget this non-sense.

 

[Refuge]

It's a vampire gene.

 

[Discofan]

I think they all took the phrase "Come over to the dark side" too literally.

 

[Tuskin38]

Burnham said the light felt different

My the entire universe is dimmer *shrug*

 

[Guy Gardener]

If their is no astigmatism to masturbation, then they are all half blind half way into puberty.

 

[Refuge]

I had to look one of those words up.

 

[cooleddie74]

Why do the MU Terrans have photosensitive eyesight? Because the Mirror Universe.

And bad writing.