Would Voyager have benefitted from a Mirror Universe episode?

[DevilEyes]

Living Witness was as close as we got to seeing evil versions of the Voyager crew, and it was fantastic. I liked the mirror versions, probably more than the real ones!

And yeah, we did see Mirror Tuvok in one of the DS9 MU episodes.

The "Mirror-Universe-like" evil versions of the VOY crew in Living Witness were awesome - much better than the DS9 version of the MU. I liked that they weren't portrayed as sex-obsessed and promiscuous, just really ruthless, calculated and dangerous. Contrary to the usual practice, evil!Seven was far less sexed-up or attractively dressed than the real Seven - she was a real Borg instead, robotic and scary, leading her Borg drones!

Too bad that they weren't real - so VOY escaped/missed the basic idea of MU, that these good people we know could all have turned out evil in different circumstances. (I always liked the idea of MU - I just don't like the execution most of the time...)

 

[Kegg]

The "Mirror-Universe-like" evil versions of the VOY crew in Living Witness were awesome - much better than the DS9 version of the MU. I liked that they weren't portrayed as sex-obsessed and promiscuous, just really ruthless, calculated and dangerous.

Indeed. "Author, Author" touched on a similar idea.

Basically, in theory a Voyager MU episode would have been awesome, but the events of the DS9 episodes basically made a VOY episode impossible (they'd all still be in the Alpha Quadrant in radically different roles.)

(I always liked the idea of MU - I just don't like the execution most of the time...)

I love the original TOS episode extremely dearly, considered the DS9 MU to frankly derail the concept beyond recognition, and the ENT episode to be a nice campy return to form.

Basically, the TOS episode is a world where our heroes are barbarians. The DS9 MU is a world where the humans are freedom fighters and the Bajorans were powerful villains. That was an interesting idea in "Crossover" and then it was completely dropped (after Kira, the next MU Bajoran to appear - Leeta - is fighting in the resistance for absolutely no reason at all.)

 

[BashirGarak]

Of course, a MU episode for the Delta Quadrant could have Species 8472 successfully annihilating the Borg entirely. I always thought 8472 was one of the coolest villain concepts; the writers should have written more episodes with them (and ditched the Kazon and the Hirogen).

 

[Admiral Shran]

4. And most importantly Janeway would have a beard!

Who could go wrong with MU beard?

 

[RegFan]

Basically, in theory a Voyager MU episode would have been awesome, but the events of the DS9 episodes basically made a VOY episode impossible (they'd all still be in the Alpha Quadrant in radically different roles.)

What if Voyager was thrown into the Delta Quadrant for a different reason in the MU or otherwise had nothing to do with the Intendant? It might sound unlikely that there would be a MU Voyager with exactly the same crew but things like that happen all the time in the MU.

I like BashirGarak's idea about Species 8472 annihilating the Borg in the MU.

 

[DonIago]

Given there's no Federation in the MU during VOY's timeframe, I'd be curious to hear an explanation as to how the ship would have even been constructed.

I could buy the novella's notion of many of the MU versions of the characters ending up on one of the raiders the resistance fighters were using, though. Sort of an MU Maquis.

 

[maneth]

Nah. Living Witness was great though.

 

[JustKate]

I dunno. The MU episodes are kind of a mixed bag, so this might have been pretty fun...or it might have been just awful. The concept is pretty neat, but I do think it was overused, particularly in DS9. Some of those episodes are very enjoyable (I just watched "Crossover" last night), and some, not so much.