Rereading the Mirror Universe books

[Dancing Doctor]

I was cleaning up my room the other day, and I came across my copies of Glass Empires and Obsidian Alliances. Deciding that it couldn't hurt any, I began to read them over again.

I'm not sure what it is about this time, but I came away with a much greater respect and liking for Fo Tsrow Eht Sdlrow Htob. I'm almost done with Glass Empires, and plan to read Obsidian Alliances.

I wonder how much of a different reaction I'll have to that one?

 

[JD]

^Maybe since you knew what to expect this time, you didn't need to worry about meeting you expectations. That was the main issue I had with it, there was alot that it didn't do that I was expecting MU TNG to do.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

^That makes sense. Whatever the reason, I was able to sit down and just read it. And when I stopped (finally) I thought "Damn, that was better than I thought."

Also, this time, I was able to notice more things in each of the stories than before. I'm beginning to, slowly, accept Spock's reasoning in The Sorrows of Empire, for example.

 

[David Mack]

Vixen said:
I'm beginning to, slowly, accept Spock's reasoning in The Sorrows of Empire, for example.

I'm glad to hear that.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I had really enjoyed it the first time around, but this time I was able to just go along with it. And then there was this mental click, almost.

 

[Nerroth]

Although, it would suck if Spock's reasoning gets undermined by a large-scale Borg or Dominion onslaught on Alliance territory - well, large-scale Borg onslaught, at least.


Hard to rebel with a bunch of nanoprobes in your veins.


(Unless the mirror-Borg aren't stopped in their war against 8472 and end up getting wiped out, and it's the fluidic-space dwellers that end up scourging the rest of the galaxy...)


As an aside, I dearly hope that future MU books feature some kind of mirror-Dominion (maybe even one with a more benevolent setup than the version which reigns in the 'regular' Trekverse's Gamma Quadrant?) and deal with the issue of whether or not they are aware of the anomaly leading to the Bajoran system...

 

[Dancing Doctor]

^That would be very interesting, I agree.

Just wondering, but did anyone else enjoy the Dark Passions novels?

 

[Nerroth]

Nope, sorry. (I mean nope, sorry, I haven't read them.)

Although, another fun MU idea would be if the mirror-Voth have a cultural revolution which sees them accept the Distant Origin Theory, and see a few dozen city ships appear in the Sol system as part of an effort to reclaim 'their' ancestral home world!

(Humans just can't catch a break, can they? Heh heh heh.)

 

[Dancing Doctor]

Well, honestly, humans do deserve some of the things that happen to them...

 

[Nerroth]

It would be ironic if all hadrosaur fossils were systematically destroyed by a previous Terran administration, as part of a reactionary Emperor's rampant creationism...

 

[Christopher]

^^Avoid proposing specific story ideas, please.

 

[Nerroth]

Sorry...

 

[foravalon]

I loved the Dark Passions duology, even though a lot of other people have given them flak.

 

[flandry84]

The MU books seem overly vicious to me.(That's the point,you say).But reading one of the stories,someone is described as flogging someone else and that word just stopped me in my tracks.Ithought about it a little while and came to realise that I was just not not enjoying this series.Sure,I understand the point of the MU and yes ,maybe I'm getting old and grouchy but this series is not one that I will return to.