Parallels should have made a stop in The Mirror Universe

[The Rock]

Would have been nice to see the evil versions of the crew ,and Worf's reactions to them.

I agree!

I also would have liked to have seen an alternate universe that Worf jumps into where the Federation is at war with the Klingons (sort of like that Yesterday's Enterprise episode), and he finds himself on board a Klingon ship where he is ordered to fire at the Enterprise, but refuses to do so.

 

[SmoothieX]

I would have liked to have seen something along the lines of where he was working for the Romulans as a Federation spy or married to a Romulan or something like that, since he hated them so much.

 

[ClayinCA]

Would have been nice to see the evil versions of the crew ,and Worf's reactions to them.

I agree!

I also would have liked to have seen an alternate universe that Worf jumps into where the Federation is at war with the Klingons (sort of like that Yesterday's Enterprise episode), and he finds himself on board a Klingon ship where he is ordered to fire at the Enterprise, but refuses to do so.

Picking up on that, I always thought the one trick missed by "Yesterday's Enterprise" (apart from getting Geordi's uniform right in the last scene ) was not having Worf be shown in command of the Klingon ships that are about to destroy the Enterprise-D right before the C re-enters the anomaly. That would have been a great final twist of the knife (or d'k tahg if you prefer).

 

[Red Ranger]

Would have been nice to see the evil versions of the crew ,and Worf's reactions to them.

I agree!

I also would have liked to have seen an alternate universe that Worf jumps into where the Federation is at war with the Klingons (sort of like that Yesterday's Enterprise episode), and he finds himself on board a Klingon ship where he is ordered to fire at the Enterprise, but refuses to do so.

Picking up on that, I always thought the one trick missed by "Yesterday's Enterprise" (apart from getting Geordi's uniform right in the last scene ) was not having Worf be shown in command of the Klingon ships that are about to destroy the Enterprise-D right before the C re-enters the anomaly. That would have been a great final twist of the knife (or d'k tahg if you prefer).

I agree that would have been awesome. There is a novel involving Q and Trelayne called Q-Squared where they revisit the YE parallel universe and we meet the Klingon Empire Worf there, and he does have a big physical fight with Picard.

One more thought about the so-called Mirror universe. Had they included a scene where Worf finds himself aboard such a ship, it would have been too distracting and different. The point of Parallels was to have Worf bounce through mainly familiar but different enough universes to disorient him. However, it was a nice touch to have the Borg-infested universe version of Enterprise and a crazed Captain Riker to show that there are indeed wildly divergent quantum universes.

I just watched the ep and a few other questions came to mind. Troi says to our Worf that if he succeeds in sealing the quantum fissure, there was a good chance her Worf wasn't coming back. What do you think?

Second, Worf asks Troi to formally become a guardian to Alexander (soh-chim) in case anything ever happened to him. Now, since that request happened in an alternate universe, did Worf ever ask her again?

Third, when all the alternate Enterprises were breaking into that one universe, our Enterprise contacts the Enterprise where Worf is first officer contacts, yet there's Worf on that bridge. Does that mean there were several other Worfs bouncing into different universes? Might explain all the Worfs we see briefly on the shuttlecraft Curie. Did they all return to their quantum universes?

 

[G2309]

I would have preffered seing the reality where the borg had taken over. The concept could have shown us far more interesting realities than we got.
I'm surprised Denise Crosby didn't get in on the episode.

 

[RandyS]

I'm surprised Denise Crosby didn't get in on the episode.

I would have liked that too, but the reason we got as to why she wasn't there was that they were worried it would seem to derrivative of "Yesterday's Enterprise". As if we couldn't tell the difference.

 

[indolover]

I'd have loved to see Regent Worf bossing around an evil Picard lol.. Or Troi in a Intendant Kira-esque catsuit lol...

 

[ALF]

"Parallels should have made a stop in The Mirror Universe..." were it a two-parter. As it stands, it's a pretty tight episode. I can't imagine they could have done it justice squeezed in as an afterthought.

As far as I'm concerned, the alternate timeline of "Yesterday's Enterprise" is the TNG take on a mirror universe, not evil but with the tables turned from the Klingons closing in to defeat the Federation. It is meant to invoke a similar feel for a "mirror" reality, clean and self-contained, more like "In a Mirror Darkly" than anything DS9 did with it since we didn't have to deal with the science of 'crossing over.'

 

[F. King Daniel]

Does that mean there were several other Worfs bouncing into different universes?

Since Worf never met himself in any of the timelines, I think they were all being shunted along.

Did they all return to their quantum universes?

Remember the end of Q-Sqaured, where one timeline ends up with two Datas? If there's a universe for every possibile outcome, many must exist where it went horribly wrong at the end.

Heck, considering the infinitely huge nature of the multiverse, we have no way if knowing Worf really ended up in his own universe or not. He could be in one where the only difference is that Riker's Dad picked a different pair of socks to wear that day.

 

[DonIago]

^It's safe to assume they checked Worf's quantum signature after he sealed the fissure, to ensure he ended up where he was supposed to be.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'd have loved to see Regent Worf bossing around an evil Picard lol..

The novel Q & A had a scene like that.

Spoiler: Q&A

This time it was Picard bouncing around between universes. One of the Enterprises is controlled by the Klingons, with General Worf in command. The ship is called the Qu', which in the Klingon language means "enterprise."

Or Troi in a Intendant Kira-esque catsuit lol...

Dark Mirror has that. Or suggests it, anyway. MU Troi is probably a lot like the Intendant.

 

[F. King Daniel]

^It's safe to assume they checked Worf's quantum signature after he sealed the fissure, to ensure he ended up where he was supposed to be.

Except, if universes split off at each and every possibility occurring everywhere in that universe, surely the quantum signature should be changing billions of times every millisecond? And since this has been happening since the dawn of time, any such a signature should be about as complex as pi by now.

Just sayin.

 

[Finn]

^It's safe to assume they checked Worf's quantum signature after he sealed the fissure, to ensure he ended up where he was supposed to be.

Except, if universes split off at each and every possibility occurring everywhere in that universe, surely the quantum signature should be changing billions of times every millisecond? And since this has been happening since the dawn of time, any such a signature should be about as complex as pi by now.

Just sayin.

But everybody in an universe should be the same.....

 

[DonIago]

Well, if universe A forks to universes B and C, then what happens to the signature of the Worf who's currently stuck in universe D? Does he spontaneously "clone" himself so that there's a Worf for B and C?

 

[Finn]

^He went back to the beginning so that wouldn't be an issue.

 

[Meredith]

Then it would have to be a different Mirror Universe, and not the same one where our Kirk and company ended up in.

Well to see Worf deal with an evil Next Generation crew would be interesting in itself.

I love DS9 ,but they really dropped the ball with the Mirror Universe.

The first mirror episode of DS9 was awesome the rest became parodies of themselves...

 

[F. King Daniel]

^He went back to the beginning so that wouldn't be an issue.

But since things went differently this time, it was, by definition, an alternate reality. In the first timeline we saw, Worf got lost in the multiverse and in the last one he didn't.

 

[Finn]

^He went back to the beginning so that wouldn't be an issue.

But since things went differently this time, it was, by definition, an alternate reality. In the first timeline we saw, Worf got lost in the multiverse and in the last one he didn't.

It wasn't a single timeline. Alternate universes ARE different time lines. When he first went through the fissure, he was never in his time line aka his own reality, but visited a different time line/reality every time he encountered the activated visor.


When he went in to seal the fissure, he wasn't changing the timeline. He was simply returning to his own.

 

[Red Ranger]

Does that mean there were several other Worfs bouncing into different universes?

Since Worf never met himself in any of the timelines, I think they were all being shunted along.

Did they all return to their quantum universes?

Remember the end of Q-Sqaured, where one timeline ends up with two Datas? If there's a universe for every possibile outcome, many must exist where it went horribly wrong at the end.

Heck, considering the infinitely huge nature of the multiverse, we have no way if knowing Worf really ended up in his own universe or not. He could be in one where the only difference is that Riker's Dad picked a different pair of socks to wear that day.

Regarding your last point, DonIago is correct. The reason they sent Worf to the right Enterprise is they scanned the shuttlecraft and noted it matched his unique quantum signature.

I do remember that part in Q-Squared where one Enterprise ended up with the android and humanoid versions of Data, but I think that wasn't what happened in Parallels. It's an intriguing thought, though.

 

[The Badger]

Or Troi in a Intendant Kira-esque catsuit lol...

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Sounds like something to be photoshopped.

Dark Mirror has that. Or suggests it, anyway. MU Troi is probably a lot like the Intendant.

A good reason to get that book, then.