Since they know about us, and were working on the technology to infiltrate our universe, wouldn't it make more sense to be prepared for the next attempt?
Fair enough, although Klingons and most other powers had been wiped out.
Everyone knows about the Borg, but I doubt the Queen's personal infatuation with Picard is public. Genesis was a galactic controversy but I doubt everyone knew Khan was involved.
I'm sure Starfleet and Federation defense contractors will be preparing for it with classified projects.
Why would the Klingons have to get weapons and tech only from other Klingons?
You just gave two examples of things that were classified for a long time. Genesis was highly classified (remember the bar scene with McCoy?). The Hansens were sent on a classified expedition (that not even the captain of the Federation flagship was aware of years later) to track the Borg prior to the Enterprise encountering them in Q-Who?, which Starfleet already clearly knew a great deal about, likely from the NX-01 encounter and the El-Aurian refugees in 2293 (in fact the classified Starfleet Borg database shown in Voyager had a stardate on it corresponding to the same stardate Sulu gave at the start of ST:VI in 2293, which could be when the El-Aurian's distress call from the Borg attack on their homeworld was first received by Starfleet).
Well, because it was a century later, and just because Starfleet officers are discussing it doesn't mean it was declassified to the public at large.
Yeah, but that's frankly a dumb rationalization. All you've got over there is someone who looks like your loved one, but has completely different life experiences. Even if they're not EEEvil, it would still be as pointless as, say, becoming obsessed with your lost loved one's identical twin. (Which is not something people do in real life, even though twins are a lot more common and accessible than routes to a parallel universe, because people understand the distinction.)
There are good reasons you’re just ignoring them.
There's a massive difference between the theoretical, or even mathematically demonstrable existence of parallel worlds and the information that they are real tangible places and you can actually travel between them by at least two means at Starfleet's disposal. That information is a huge deal, imagine what it would do today. There are potentially multiverse spanning consequences. I thought the episode spelled out the reasons very clearly and logically. It actually makes one wonder why, in universe, they allowed it to be public knowledge later on (except to awkwardly keep continuity with DS9 where Sisko has to know without access to a computer about the previous crossover).
Not that we ever saw in the following century.
Looks like in the Mirrorverse, it's Terran Empire or a ragtag band of dissident survivors of conquered worlds. And since the Terrans are intensely xenophobic, I don't see them sharing advanced technology with aliens.
The details of Genesis were classified, but the public at large were aware of some of what happened. Hence "Genesis has become a galactic controversy". Everyone knew the Federation had developed a "doomsday weapon" which could create planets.You just gave two examples of things that were classified for a long time. Genesis was highly classified (remember the bar scene with McCoy?). The Hansens were sent on a classified expedition (that not even the captain of the Federation flagship was aware of years later) to track the Borg prior to the Enterprise encountering them in Q-Who?, which Starfleet already clearly knew a great deal about, likely from the NX-01 encounter and the El-Aurian refugees in 2293 (in fact the classified Starfleet Borg database shown in Voyager had a stardate on it corresponding to the same stardate Sulu gave at the start of ST:VI in 2293, which could be when the El-Aurian's distress call from the Borg attack on their homeworld was first received by Starfleet).
I doubt they'd tech anything classified at Starfleet Academy. O'Brein was surprised Bajoran military officer Kira didn't know of the incident.
It took the Mirror Universe people 100 or 200 years (depending on if you count "In a Mirror, Darkly" or "Mirror, Mirror" as when they'd have started) to develop a transporter mod to intentionally beam between worlds. The Spore Drive is out of the public's reach. I'm not sure anyone could have crossed over even if it was known to the galaxy at large.
Okay, what are they?
Yeah, that part I can see keeping on the DL. But even so it would be simpler merely to record that Lorca was killed in the MU (or just went MIA, if they want to hedge their bets, since for all they know the original may still be alive) and just fudge the details of which Lorca they're talking about.
That was kinda my point. If we actually buy the rationale offered in DSC, then it shouldn't have been public knowledge later on... but we know that it was. Basically the writers painted themselves into an impossible corner: they had to keep it secret to be consistent with the continuity of "Mirror Mirror," but the very act of doing was inconsistent with continuity after "Mirror Mirror."
Yet that is exactly what Lorca did. When he found himself trapped in the PU and realized he had the opportunity, plotted to "acquire" PU Burnham and take her back to the MU with him. He then hoped that after he got her there he could persuade her to stay. Lorca probably knew the odds were against him but he went through with his plan anyway. This is human nature.
Well, yes, apparently. Which is just one of the (many, many) reasons why I think "What's Past Is Prologue" was by far the worst episode of the season, a real shark-jumping episode with a ragingly implausible idiot plot. It's not human nature, it's something the writers retroactively invented for him to paper over the lack of credible motivations in their plot and try to drive home the depths of his heel turn.
I simply do not believe this. My evidence (as mentioned): the fact that despite the existence of identical twins in the real world, this does not happen.
An identical twin is not the same thing, either physically or emotionally, as another literal version of your loved one. If my wife died, would I want her twin sister? No. Would I be sorely tempted by a universe where she survived? You bet. There will be one out there, QM tells me, where she is all but identical, save for some specific differences. And even if she isn't, that level of rationality is not going to play heavily on my mind when it's up against the possibility of resurrecting the dead.
For whatever reason, it became generally known after Mirror Mirror. Not sure why that's hard to imagine. I'm just interested, in universe, as to why that was. That's not Discovery's problem, it's DS9s. My point is that the DS9 writers never thought about the issues.
Well, okay. I guess we see this very differently. To me, the odds of finding that kind of similarity would be vanishingly miniscule (indeed that's inherent in the MW theory of QM); certainly the MU doesn't offer it. A MU counterpart is to my mind functionally indistinguishable from an identical twin, except that the person (A) will have the same name, and (B)—a factor that also works against the motivation you're claiming—will have grown up in a society where almost everyone is a duplicitous sonuvabitch.
This, I don't disagree with. It would indeed be a major mindfuck, not unlike discovering sentient extraterrrestrial life. But this is Star Trek's reality we're talking about; the public learns about some new discovery that should qualify as a major mindfuck pretty much every other week. There's nothing in particular to distinguish the MU from any number of the others.
Well, we seem to have shifted to a slightly different subject here now, haven't we?
Sound like a good idea to me. Why would they advertise it?
