I'm glad STNG didn't do a mirror episode but on some level Yesterday's Enterprise could be considered a mirror episode for the entire Federation.
Why didn't TNG go to the mirror universe?
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I think the best mirror episodes tend to be the ones others hate... the best ones are when you give the cast the chance to ham it up, be ridiculous, and mustache twirling evil.
Fell flat in Discovery, being too serious. I think a TNG Mirror episode would have been similar, and took itself way too seriously. ENT had a good mix... it was a serious enough plot but with just enough ridiculousness that it worked.
Fell flat in Discovery, being too serious. I think a TNG Mirror episode would have been similar, and took itself way too seriously. ENT had a good mix... it was a serious enough plot but with just enough ridiculousness that it worked.
There could be two mirror universes, I suppose.
I would imagine so, yes, with Parallels being the model.
Their is actually a infinite number of different universes. Many of them that will of course look a lot like the Mirror Universe.
In the old TNG novel „Q & A“, there is a scene aboard an ISS Enterprise-E where the Terran Empire never fell. Lore is Picard’s first officer and O’Brien a beleaguered engineer.
Another mirror concept I like was from the DS9 novel - turns out the connection between prime and mirror universe happened because Sisko was supposed to help Mirror!Sisko become the emissary. He failed.
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They did not need to. They explored it through characters that were polar opposites on the crew, in Lore (Data), Tom Riker (William Riker), Duras (Worf), Dr. Russell (Crusher), and Shinzon (Picard) & his Viceroy (Troi).
And it turns out that the Confederation of Earth is a better mirror universe for TNG than the universe of the Terran Empire. The Terran Empire are more like a bunch of pirates plundering other planets, while the Confederation of Earth is a dystopic, fascist regime.
And it turns out that the Confederation of Earth is a better mirror universe for TNG than the universe of the Terran Empire. The Terran Empire are more like a bunch of pirates plundering other planets, while the Confederation of Earth is a dystopic, fascist regime.
Interesting thought. Who's Geordi's opposite, then?
Wesley's would be Locarno.
Wesley's would be Locarno.
I don’t know if Geordi has ever had an opposite. The only two names I could think that could have been are Leah Brahms, and Taibok.
He got off the wrong foot with Leah Brahms, but worked everything out with her.
Taibok brainwashed Geordi and replaced him with an imposter, but Geordi never met him or the imposter again. Even though it had an effect on Geordi. I suppose if Taibok had brainwashed him to try and destroy the Enterprise instead of targeted the Klingon governor, that would have made Geordi's opposite, as Geordi cares for the Enterprise.
He got off the wrong foot with Leah Brahms, but worked everything out with her.
Taibok brainwashed Geordi and replaced him with an imposter, but Geordi never met him or the imposter again. Even though it had an effect on Geordi. I suppose if Taibok had brainwashed him to try and destroy the Enterprise instead of targeted the Klingon governor, that would have made Geordi's opposite, as Geordi cares for the Enterprise.
I'd never really thought about it until I read "Dark Mirror" by Diane Duane and the comics last year. Now I'm like, alright, I'm ready, give me all the Mirrorverse fic.
The "evil twin" AU is a trope, sure, but it would have been fun to get an episode or two out of. I was trying to think of the closest that each TNG character canonically gets to doing a really truly bad thing and it was harder than I thought. Of course, that just made the Mirrorverse chaos even more appealing, ha.
The "evil twin" AU is a trope, sure, but it would have been fun to get an episode or two out of. I was trying to think of the closest that each TNG character canonically gets to doing a really truly bad thing and it was harder than I thought. Of course, that just made the Mirrorverse chaos even more appealing, ha.
I always found TOS "Mirror Mirror" to be fascinating, because you never really knew if Kirk and co. actually went to an evil parallel universe, or it was all just made up by the Halkans. Because logically, the Mirror universe would make no sense as presented. But either way, it was a pretty good premise.
Then DS9 came along and totally bastardized the concept. And then DSC came along and made it even worse.
Then DS9 came along and totally bastardized the concept. And then DSC came along and made it even worse.
That Mirror Universe comic Jean-Luc still SENDS ME because daaaaayuuum sir. I have no idea why they made him so ripped but I'm definitely not complaining 
That Mirror Universe comic Jean-Luc still SENDS ME because daaaaayuuum sir. I have no idea why they made him so ripped but I'm definitely not complaining
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In those first two pictures, is Data supposed to be some kind of Borg or something? He sure looks like it.
I don't think it's been explained yet. In the comics, he simply has that stuff by the 2360s. In the VOY one-off, Pirate Queen Janeway is unfamiliar with the Borg in 2372.
That Mirror Universe comic Jean-Luc still SENDS ME because daaaaayuuum sir. I have no idea why they made him so ripped but I'm definitely not complaining
Rewatch the finale of INS. Patrick Stewart was hitting the gym big time for those movies. Biceps, forearms and shoulders!
He was looking so ripped because he'd done a movie called "Safe House" where he had a rather... umm... revealing shower scene (I am still looking RESPECTFULLY), along with a lot of others where he basically runs around in a tank top and/or bathrobe and he wanted to look as ripped as possible for that movie. Hence why Insurrection (and the Star Trek fandom, haha) also profited from this. I guess the mirror universe comic did try to honor this rather iconic time period in his career indeed
To steal a quote, the snarling would get old—unless…you mentioned Dr.Who…which made me remember this planet:
Tivoli
Tivoli was the most conquered planet in the galaxy. It was inhabited by a species of rodent-like humanoids. They were one of the oldest civilisations in the galaxy and simply let invaders do as they wished. Their anthem was "Glory To <Insert Name Here>" and their cities were designed to be...
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Imagine if you will, a similar world…this story has a plot like that of the Twilight Zone episode “A Nice Place to Visit”
-on steroids.
Like the Organians, the residents of this Tivoli-like world don’t fight back—and are just too agreeable. Ultra Masochists.
But this world (in the Hyades) has—in truth—never been conquered.
There was a line from “The Blue Bird” that would be an apt title:
“You Struck Me, So I Must Kiss You”
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Each would-be conqueror is either so unnerved that they try to get away—or have their souls slowly eaten…shades of the Devidians.
Ah yes, the Adventures of Jacked-Luc Picard.Sadly, TNG only visited the Mirror Universe in novels and comics.
At TNG’s peak. This would’ve been something!
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