Star Trek: The Next Generation
Summary
Star Trek : The Next Generationnever did a Mirror Universe episode , and that finally worked in the show ’s favor . Star Trek’sMirror Universe first debuted in the classicStar Trek : The Original Seriesepisode , " Mirror , Mirror , " in whichCaptain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) and some of his crew find themselves in a dark substitute macrocosm that mirrors their own . In the Mirror Universe , the ISS Enterprise do the Terran Empire instead of the USS Enterprise as part of the United Federation of Planets ' Starfleet . gang member are tortured when they make a mistake and the chain of command is often determined by officers murdering their superiors .
Despite the divergence of events inStar Trek ’s Prime Universe and the Mirror Universe , many people ended up in the same home in both reality . For example , the full crew of the USS Enterprise was the same in both universes , but their personalities were drastically different . Simply put , the Mirror Universe is a humans of opposites , although Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) is lucid in every population . While the Mirror concept crop well for a one - off story withCaptain Kirk and his enterprisingness work party , the Mirror Universe would have felt out of stead onStar Trek : The Next Generationfor a turn of reasons .
InStar Trek : Picardseason 2 , Q ( John de Lancie ) altered the past of the Prime Universe , which result in the
Confederation of Earth , a"xenophobic tyrannic regime"much like the Mirror Universe .
The Mirror Universe is home to the coloured and most demoralise versions of our favorite Star Trek persona , but which of these variants is good ?
Why A Star Trek: TNG Mirror Universe Episode Wouldn’t Have Worked
The Mirror Universe clashes with the tone of TNG and its characters.
Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and thecast ofStar Trek : The Next Generationrepresent the most moralStar Trekcrew , and " evil " versions of those characters would have feel cartoonish . The Mirror Universe form with the campy tone ofStar Trek : The Original Seriesand Kirk was already an aroused Captain , so it was n’t that hard to imagine an malefic version of him . TNG , on the other helping hand , had a more serious and optimistic note , and an evil Captain Picard would have likely been either too sour or too over - the - top . TNGdid tell alternating universe stories , such as " Yesterday ’s Enterprise " and " Parallels , " but they did it in a mode that was new and unique rather than rehashingTOS ' Mirror Universe construct .
AlthoughStar Trek : The Next Generationhad some callbacks toStar Trek : The Original Seriesin its other seasons , Star Trekcreator Gene Roddenberry want to distanceTNGfromTOS . " Mirror , Mirror " is generally see as one of classicStar Trek’sbest episodes , and it would have been difficult for anyTNGepisode to live up to that . Despite not doing a Mirror Universe sequence , TNGfound other means to allow its actors to play unlike , and even evil , reading of their grapheme . Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) , for example , face off against hisevil twin brother Loremore than once , and multiple characters were have by alien entities .
Various non - canon tie - in novel and comic books have tell Mirror Universe story withStar Trek : The Next Generation’scharacters , lead off with Diane Duane ’s novelDark Mirrorin 1993 .
Some Star Trek Shows Overused The Mirror Universe
The Mirror Universe began as a good concept but offers diminishing returns.
Star Trek : Deep Space Ninehad five Mirror Universe episode , begin withDS9season 2 , episode 23 , " Crossover . " This instalment revealed that Mirror Universe Spock had reform the Terran Empire after Captain Kirk and his work party visited there in " Mirror , Mirror . “Although his reform ab initio prove successful , they led to the occupation of the Empire by the Klingon - Cardassian Alliance , which then became the dominant power . In the Mirror Universe , Terok Nor ( space place Deep Space Nine ) was commanded by IntendantKira Nerys ( Nana Visitor ) , and Nana Visitor understandably had fun playing an evil adaptation of Kira . However , with its overly sexualize graphic symbol and general campiness , the Mirror Universe storyline offer decrease returns after the knickknack wear off .
Star Trek : Enterprise’stwo - part " In a Mirror , Darkly " fair a bit well thanDS9’sMirror Universe adventures , as it presented a self - contained tarradiddle that took space totally in the Mirror Universe and connected withTOS .
The Mirror Universe made more signified combined with the darker shade ofStar Trek : Discovery , but it sometimes felt like too much for aStar Trekshow . Still , the Mirror Universe ofDiscoverydid provide the characters ofCaptain Gabriel Lorca ( Jason Isaacs)and Emperor Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) , two ofStar Trek’sbest unexampled villains . After its appearance in multipleStar Trekshows , the Mirror Universe began to feel too much like a gimmick . It ’s a construct that work on better when used sparingly , and it would have felt tonally out of stead onStar Trek : The Next Generation .
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