The Comic Mirror Images and the Mirror Universe Timeline

[JonnyQuest037]

I went through all the episodes trying to find ones that would have interesting MU equivalents, but there aren't many. For instance, any episode that begins with them on a humanitarian mission or answering a distress call would never happen, nor would most episodes starting with pure research missions; any episode about them resolving a diplomatic crisis would be over in minutes because they'd just blow everything up, so there wouldn't be much of a story; and episodes about battling cosmic threats or things that attack the ship would turn out largely the same, so there wouldn't be much point in telling it.

I figure the MU crew were just doing dastardly deeds that took roughly the same amount of time. Pirate raids instead of humanitarian missions, CAUSING distress calls instead of answering them, that sort of thing.

That doesn't really work, since many of the characters were not actually evil in the Mirror Universe, or at least were less evil than others (Forrest, Spock, most of the humans in DS9 MU) and some "bad"/"evil" people were "good" in the MU (Brunt).

I was just talking about the original TOS episode & not really factoring in what DS9 did with the MU later on. Sorry, should've been clearer.

 

[F. King Daniel]

James Dixon's nutty chronology (version 17 was the last) includes a mirror universe timeline from "The Best of Trek #14". It's based on the Spaceflight Chronology, and includes such gems as Emperor Pike breeding the Flying Pancakes from "Operation: Annihilate" (which although really interesting clashes with "Mirror, Mirror" that says Kirk killed Pike), Khan's guys winning the Eugenics Wars, Surak dying as an infant and all sorts of fun evil versions of SFC-timeline events.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

James Dixon's nutty chronology (version 17 was the last) includes a mirror universe timeline from "The Best of Trek #14". It's based on the Spaceflight Chronology, and includes such gems as Emperor Pike breeding the Flying Pancakes from "Operation: Annihilate" (which although really interesting clashes with "Mirror, Mirror" that says Kirk killed Pike), Khan's guys winning the Eugenics Wars, Surak dying as an infant and all sorts of fun evil versions of SFC-timeline events.

Sadly, that's one of the few "Best of Trek" books I don't have. Maybe I should hit the used bookstore this weekend...

And why couldn't Mirror Kirk have assumed command of his Enterprise after their version of "Operation: Annihilate!"? After all, Mirror Archer assumed command of his Enterprise about 4 years after ours did.

 

[Christopher]

^Keep in mind that the Flying Pancakes existed well before the events of "Operation -- Annihilate!" They destroyed the civilization on Ingraham B in 2265, Theta Cygni XII some unspecified time before that, Levinius V around the 2060s, and Beta Portolan in ancient times. So it's theoretically possible that Mirror Pike could've found them sometime before Kirk assassinated him and bred them into an altered form to serve his purposes (though I'm not sure if that's what the BoT chronology actually claims).

 

[Robert Treat]

Wasn't there also a 24th century Terran Empire in "Q & A"?

 

[JD]

Yeah, and there was one in... crap, the DS9R book that starts with Sisko talking to the different alternate universe versions of himself.

 

[ProwlAlpha]

I believe thats Fearful Symmetry. If the Defiant was the first Constitution class vessel to be in the Mirror Universe, wouldn't the class be called the Defiant Class?

 

[TheAlmanac]

So it's theoretically possible that Mirror Pike could've found them sometime before Kirk assassinated him and bred them into an altered form to serve his purposes (though I'm not sure if that's what the BoT chronology actually claims).

It's not. As mentioned before, Morse's chronology is already inconsistent with "Mirror, Mirror" itself when it comes to Pike, and it uses the Spaceflight Chronology dates:

2201
Emperor Pike orders his scientific advisers to study biological warfare. By the end of the year, they succeed in creating a new life form whose sole purpose is death and destruction.

2206
Pike's artificially created flying parasites escape from a lab on Ingraham B. Before they can be stopped, they destroy a number of neighboring civilizations, as well as Ingraham B itself.

 

[Christopher]

^That just goes to show how easy it was to overlook details in the days before home video and the Internet. That author remembered Ingraham B but forgot about the earlier worlds the Flying Pancakes had destroyed going back centuries.

Still, the 2206 reference (which I believe corresponds to the early first season by the Spaceflight Chronology dating scheme) doesn't actually specify that Pike is still alive at that point.

 

[TheAlmanac]

Still, the 2206 reference (which I believe corresponds to the early first season by the Spaceflight Chronology dating scheme) doesn't actually specify that Pike is still alive at that point.

No, but later entries in the same chronology do. Emperor Pike is ultimately killed and replaced by Emperor Nogura, with the entry corresponding to "Mirror, Mirror" happening in between.

 

[Christopher]

^Hmm, yeah, that is a pretty big goof. Well, like I said, in the days before home video and the Internet, a lot of fans (and even pro authors) weren't as precise in their memory of details as would be expected today.