Tbh i hate the mirror universe now… from being a not-so-serious in-joke that came back every now and then, not as much as nudging the timeline, plot or characters into any too serious a direction, to becoming an important part of cannon that I just don’t like… mostly because of Discovery and Picard.
It’s really just too cheesy. Alternative universes, by all means, but just a mirror universe where there’s a bit of a role reversal which stems from can only be described as “a trend in the 70s”.
Mirror this, bizarro that, cod sarn it. To call it a gimmick is a bit of an understatement. To call it cannon is a bit embarrassing.
Now excuse me, I’ve ranted about Star Trek on the interwebz, so now I have to go fulfill the government mandated 3 hours of grass touching.
I thought the Picard one was a different evil timeline and not the mirror one?
Correct, it’s the confederacy instead of federation or terran empire.
I might be in the minority, but I hated the mirror universe episodes. Every single one of them felt like consequence free filler with bad low stakes plot points. I mean, yeah people died, but not the characters I actually cared about.
I can count on one hand the number of mirror universe episodes I’ve enjoyed in trek. But I don’t even need that one hand to count the mirror episodes I liked in DS9…
I like how they make someone dress sexy whenever they want to show that they’re evil.
Sexy and lesbian. “gay coded villains” are a whole thing.
Mirror Kira was very evil
Garek was a great character and every episode that peeled away a little more of the simple tailor role from him was delightful.
Still… Every now and then I randomly think: Moo-gieeeeeee.
I’m mostly just against the holodeck episodes. Every time my wif watched ds9 with me, it ended up being a holodeck episode. She doesn’t like Star Trek.
I’m trying not to be offended here, but it’s hard.
Moriarty and Ship in a Bottle are not your average holodeck episodes, as far as I’m concerned Inception is just a cheap knock off of Ship in a Bottle.
Ferengi: cool
All others: aw hell naw!But… holodeck episodes!
Who the hell was responsible for the shoddy lumps of code they call safety protocols? And how the fuck can they “fail”? Any halfway responsible programming would assume the default to be safety on hard coded. So if those protocols were to “fail” they wouldengage safety!
Time travel episodes as honorable mention.
Honestly, I would put those above mirror universe episodes any day of the week.
Hot Take: the only truly good mirror universe episode was Mirror, Mirror.
