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The Mirror Universe is one ofStar Trek ’s most challenging concepts with its own rich and fascinating history . introduce inStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 , the Mirror Universe has been used sparingly so that each appearance is an event . Thealternate world where nearly every belovedStar Trekcharacter is the inverse of who they are inStar Trek ’s Prime Universespans five television serial publication : TOS , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , Star Trek : Enterprise , Star Trek : Discovery , andStar Trek : Prodigy . The Mirror Universe is also very different from the Kelvin timeline of J.J. Abrams’Star Trekmovies , which diverges from the Prime timeline at a fixed point in the 23rd 100 .
The account ofStar Trek ’s Mirror Universe blossom forth bewilderingly . After its lone 23rd - centuryStar Trek : TOSepisode , " Mirror , Mirror,“Star Trek : Deep Space Ninepicked up the Mirror Universe ’s story in the 24th hundred . Star Trek : Enterprisethen spring backward 200 year with a twenty-second - one C prequel tale . Star Trek : Discoveryseason 1returned to the Mirror Universe in the twenty-third century , a decade beforeTOS , before it pass over to the 32nd hundred and filled in some detail of what became of the Mirror Universe in the last 800 years . Finally , Star Trek : Prodigyseason 2 updated the state of the Mirror Universe afterDS9 . For clarity ’s sake , here is what happened in the Mirror Universe chronologicallyfrom before First Contact with the Vulcans to what is recognise about the substitute reality in the 32nd century .
How Star Trek’s Mirror Universe Is Different From The Prime Universe
It’s not quite a mirror.
Star Trek ’s Mirror Universe runs parallel to the Prime Universe ’s because both reality co - exist in the same infinite but in different dimensional planes . The variances between mass from the Prime and Mirror Universes are in the main cultural , with Mirror twin hew towards malevolency and bigotry . However , there is also at least one decided strong-arm difference between the two universe of discourse : InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 1 , Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) noticed that"the cosmos has lost its brilliance"in the alternate realness . Burnham did n’t just mean metaphorically ; the Mirror interpretation ofCaptain Gabriel Lorca ( Jason Isaacs)needed eye degenerate due to his radiosensitivity to the lightness in the Prime Universe .
The Federation and the Terran Empire get it on of each other ’s beingness .
InStar Trek ’s Mirror Universe , instead of the United Federation of Planets , humanity take shape the Terran Empire and successfully conquered the Alpha Quadrant in the 22nd and 23rd centuries . The Federation and the Terran Empire know of each other ’s existence but suppress this information to forestall further crosswalk . The Mirror Universe ’s Terran Empire was ruled by an Emperor . While Federation starships are designated USS , in the Mirror Universe , Terran vessels take the denomination ISS ( Imperial Starship ) . However , the Terran Empire collapsed by the twenty-fourth century and was run over by their opposition , the Klingons and the Cardassians , which formed an alliance along with other worlds like Bajor .
How The Mirror Universe’s Terran Empire Rose To Power
The Mirror Universe’s First Contact was very different
On the Mirror Universe ’s Earth , history blossom in a mostly identical manner as inStar Trek ’s Prime Universe , exceptthe human subspecies embraced warfare and fascism as a agency to solve problem . Mirror Earth ’s story involve nations conk to war , with the strong overcoming the weak , until the polar date of April 5 , 2063 . This was the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ofFirst Contact with the Vulcans , who land in Boseman , Montana after Zephram Cochrane ( James Cromwell ) became the first human being to achieve warp flight .
Cochrane immediately execute the Vulcan visitant with a shotgun .
However , rather of a peaceful meeting as had occurred in the Prime Universe , which devotee see inStar Trek : First Contact , in the Mirror Universe , Cochrane immediately executed the Vulcan visitor with a scattergun , believe this was the first stride of an alien invasion of Earth . ( Cochrane ’s scattergun by and by came to be possess by the Mirror Jonathan Archer . ) Cochrane ’s people then raided the starship and executed the other Vulcans aboard . With Vulcan technology , the human slipstream took to the star topology , set up the Terran Empirewithin the next century . The Terrans capture and enslaved many of the other races in the Alpha Quadrant , and the xenophobic human - lead imperium lasted for almost 300 long time .
Star Trek’s 22nd Century Mirror Universe
As seen in Star Trek: Enterprise season 4
Star Trek : enterprisingness ’s " In A Mirror , Darkly " reveal that in 2155 , Commander Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) mutiny against his Captain , Maximillian Forrest ( Vaughn Armstrong ) , and took command of the Terran Empire ’s flagship , the ISS Enterprise . Archer ’s scheme involved taking the Enterprise into Tholian space toretrieve the USS Defiant ( NCC-1764 ) , a Constitution Class spaceship that sentence - travel from the 23rd - one C Prime Universe to the 22nd - 100 Mirror Universe in theStar Trek : The Original Seriesepisode " The Tholian Web . "
The USS Defiant ( NCC-1764 ) is unrelated to the USS Defiant inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine .
With the Terran Empire in peril of lose a war against its many enemies , Archer ’s ambition was to apply the far more potent USS Defiant from the alternate reality to represent a coup where he would become the new Terran Emperor . The Enterprise ( and Captain Forrest ) were destroyed by the Tholians , but Archer succeeded in highjack the Defiant . However , Archer was betrayed and killed by his mistress , Hoshi Sato ( Linda Park ) . Sato then took command of the Defiant and completed Archer ’s coup , declaring herself Empress .
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Star Trek’s 23rd Century Mirror Universe
As seen in Star Trek: Discovery seasons 1 and 3
100 years afterStar Trek : Enterprise , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 1 ’s Captain Gabriel Lorca ( Jason Isaacs ) revealed himself to be a Terran from the Mirror Universe . Lorca used theUSS Discovery ’s spore shift hub driveto restoration to the alternative reality . However , he want Michael Burnham to help him represent acoup to dethrone the Terran Emperor Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) . Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery posed as their Mirror Universe counterparts in rules of order to go being trapped in the parallel proportion .
Star Trek ’s Mirror Universe is home to the most evil versions of our favorite Starfleet Italian sandwich , but which ones are the best of the risky ?
By 2257 , the Terran Empire was the prevalent tycoon in the Alpha Quadrant and , under Georgiou ’s formula , the humanity conquered the Klingons , although a band of alien race formed a rebel confederation against the Terrans . Georgiou also knew about the Prime Universe and the Federationbecause she had access to the USS Defiant ’s data point files . But Georgiou ’s sedate menace was Lorca , who nearly succeeded in his coup . At the end ofStar Trek : Discovery ’s four - part saga in the Mirror Universe , Lorca was killed and Georgiou ’s reign was stop , but Michael Burnham brought the evil doppelgänger of her late Captain Georgiou back with her to the Prime Universe .
Starfleet key a chimeric strain on the subatomic degree in the Terran stem cell , which explains the Terran sensitivity towards malevolence .
After the USS Discovery time traveled to the 32nd century Georgiou was in person debriefed byDoctor Kovich ( David Cronenberg ) . During their meeting , Kovich updated Georgiou , who knew nothing of the events seen inStar Trek Deep Space Nine , on the nation of the Mirror Universe . Kovich divulge thatthedistance between the Mirror Universe and the Prime Universe had been increasing for centuries , which has prevented crossovers . In fact , no one had jumped from either reality for 500 age . Kovich also inform Georgiou that Starfleet identified a chimeric strain on the subatomic layer in the Terran bow cell , which explains the Terran predisposition towards malevolence .
Star Trek : Discovery series head Sonequa Martin - Green discusses how time of year 1 ’s Mirror Universe multi - part arc was a turning head for the audience .
WithEmperor Georgiou dying from cross both time and realness , the Guardian of Forever ( Paul Guilfoyle ) examine her worthiness . Georgiou regress to the Mirror Universe in the twenty-third one C , where she realized she had changed from her time with the compassionate Michael Burnham inStar Trek ’s Prime Universe . The Guardian of Forever was satisfied with Georgiou ’s newfound linear perspective and sent the Emperor back to a time when the Prime and Mirror Universes had not yet permanently depart . Georgiou ’s fib will keep inStar Trek : division 31 .
Star Trek’s Mirror Universe In The 23rd Century
As seen in Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2 and Star Trek: Discovery Season 5
Star Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 ’s " Mirror , Mirror " was the first appearance of the Mirror Universe that bulge it all . Chronologically set a decade afterStar Trek : Discoveryseason 1 , a transporter accident switched the Prime Universe’sCaptain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner)and three of his policeman with their Mirror Universe counterpart . While the USS Enterprise ’s Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) quickly imprisoned the evil duplicate of his crewmates , aboard the ISS Enterprise , Kirk had to sail the dangerous political waters of the Terran Empire , whereassassinating your superior officers and competitor is the key fruit to procession and power .
Kirk challenged Mirror Spock to do what he could to change the destiny of the Terran Empire .
As Kirk grok the profound differences between the two world , he realise that the goateed Mirror Spock harbored weighty doubts about the length of service of a fascistic regime like the Terran Empire , which the Vulcan calculate wasdoomed to totally collapse within 240 years . Before switching back to his proper macrocosm , Kirk challenged Mirror Spock to do what he could to transfer the destiny of the Terran Empire .
In the greater context of the overall Mirror Universe ’s story , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 2 disclose that thePrime Universe ’s Spock already knew what the Mirror Universewas thanks to his adopted babe Michael Burnham ’s experiences and from meeting Emperor Georgiou . As part of his lifelong pact never to reveal the the true about Burnham or the USS Discovery , Spock ’s swift and critical actions when he meets Mirror Kirk become recontextualized since the Vulcan knew precisely where this evil version of his Captain came from .
Star Trek : Discovery land the ISS Enterprise into the 32nd C , and a translation of its dedication plaque reveal new Mirror Universe contingent .
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , sequence 5 , " Mirrors,“picks up Mirror Spock ’s story when Captain Michael Burnham and Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) ascertain the abandoned ship ISS enterprisingness in interdimensional space and pilot it into the 32nd century . Book and Burnham memorise thatMirror Spock ’s attempt to reform the Terran Empire failed , and the Vulcan was assassinated . A group of refugee revolutionise by Mirror Saru ( Doug Jones ) hijacked the ISS Enterprise in an attack to flee into the Prime Universe . Although the Enterprise was leave abandoned , the Mirror refugees did make it into the Prime reality and start new life .
Star Trek’s Mirror Universe In The 24th Century
As seen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2
" Smiley , " the Mirror Miles O’Brien , emerged as a fundamental character ofDS9 ’s Mirror Universe taradiddle .
DS9 ’s Mirror Universe saga was intensive , withcharacters crossing over into both world , and the activity revolved around the Deep Space Nine place post , which was still known as Terok Nor in the Mirror Universe . In " Through the Looking Glass , " Commander Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) had to briefly substitute his dead counterpart , who was the Terran resistance ’s leader in the Mirror Universe . Meanwhile , " Smiley , " the Mirror Miles O’Brien , emerged as a central character ofDS9 ’s Mirror Universe story ; Smiley not only recruited the Prime Sisko , but he also stole the plans for theUSS Defiant from Deep Space Nineso that the Terran rebels could have a warship of their own .
Word of the Mirror Universe eventually reached the Ferengi Alliance and Grand Nagus Zek ( Wallace Shawn ) pass over to the Mirror Universe in social club to open up business sector opportunities . The Terrans ' primary enemy was the Klingon and Cardassian Alliance ’s Regent , who was break beWorf ( Michael Dorn ) . The Regent was eventually overthrown by the rebels inDS9 ’s net Mirror Universe installment , " The Emperor ’s New Cloak . “DS9 ’s Mirror Universe story left off with the Terran rebels still fightingto bring down the Klingon and Cardassian Alliance .
After seven seasons with no Mirror Universe episode , reference from Star Trek : Voyager ’s Mirror Universe have in conclusion appeared in Prodigy .
Star Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , episode 14 , " Cracked Mirror , " is nowthe farthest bed point in time of the Mirror Universe ’s saga . “Cracked Mirror " revealed thatafterStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , the Terran Empire wax again in the recent 24th hundred . embrace their one-time ways and forming a new Terran Armada , humanity once again began inhibit the galaxy . Briefly cut through over into the Mirror Universe , Captain Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ) and the vernal crew of the USS Protostar found themselves aboard the ISS Voyager - A and become prisoners of the Mirror interpretation of Admiral Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) and Captain Chakotay . After Mirror Janeway teamed up with the Protostar ’s submarine to repel the timeline - deplete threat of the Loom , what ’s next forStar Trek ’s Mirror Universe remains to be seen .
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