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Mirror Universe Thoughts

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First of all, I have no issue with the Terran Empire types being in Starfleet uniforms as:

A) They're infiltrating as Starfleet.

B) The mirror seems to be a closer reflection since DS9.

That said, two things:

A) When they're not infiltrating, they ought to have the TE combadge.

B) Klingons are really out of place as TE officers.

Beyond that, I always kinda wanted to see a second mirror universe that was more good, pacifist. No wars. Earth and Vulcan just... met in the middle. Even more Utopian than standard Trek. Uniform variants, etc. And then have someone from that Universe come to ours and, on the verge of snapping, set out to change everything the way Kirk did with Mirror Spock. Like some admiral that gets swapped out for his "even more good" counterpart in a transporter accident and starts pushing total pacifism. Like some Starbase gets wiped out because he orders them not to fight back.

I think an Admiral like that could make a compelling villain and deal with some of the necessary darkness of the STO setting.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Terran Empire and the undine working together :O that would make things confusing as hell..

    Mirror Self
    Undine Infiltrator

    Whos who? :O
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    a really good mirror universe. Kinda reminds me of the red dwarf episode 'demons and angels' where the crew are cloned with good and evil counterparts. the problem with being too good is you end up being a doormat and die saying things like "Forgive me, brother. I appear to have stained thy knife-end with my blood. A thousand apologies."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I think they should have different uniforms in all but the infiltration mission. Not completely different but another badge, a sash and for the women something more revealing. As the Decipher RPG Mirror Universe guide states: "In the mirror universe there are two kinds of people. Those who use power to get sex, and those who use sex to get power.";)

    I don't like the idea of a good mirror universe. Where would be the fun in that? And no admiral can order people not to fight back. If he tried security would escort him to sickbay. Sure, he could sabotage the defense grid, but that would be murder. And why would a completely pacifist universe have a Starfleet anyway? Why would they have weapons?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    K-Tar wrote:
    I think they should have different uniforms in all but the infiltration mission. Not completely different but another badge, a sash and for the women something more revealing. As the Decipher RPG Mirror Universe guide states: "In the mirror universe there are two kinds of people. Those who use power to get sex, and those who use sex to get power.";)

    I don't like the idea of a good mirror universe. Where would be the fun in that? And no admiral can order people not to fight back. If he tried security would escort him to sickbay. Sure, he could sabotage the defense grid, but that would be murder. And why would a completely pacifist universe have a Starfleet anyway? Why would they have weapons?

    Agreed on the uniforms.

    What I was picturing was...

    You know how Kirk persuaded Mirror Spock to change things and it eventually created a more nightmarish scenario? You ever read the comic JLA: EARTH 2 where the Justice League tries to liberate and reform a twisted alternate earth and everything they do just makes things worse?

    Picture that from the other side. Someone from a better universe shows up in ours but their solutions keep making things worse. So they go mad at how terrible our universe is and eventually say:
    I believed in pacifism, in enlightenment. It worked where I came from. But every time I try to show you the way, you mess it all up. Nobody ever accomplishes anything in your universe without the threat of force. Well, guess what? I've taken the data from the Hobus subspace supernova and I'm prepared to recreate it. I'm quite the apt pupil, aren't I? Don't say I'm not a fast learner. I've arranged for you and one leader of every faction in the alpha quadrant to be locked in a room. You have thirty minutes to negotiate peace and if there are any hold outs, I launch a chain reaction that will wipe out all life in the galaxy in under 40 years. Absolute peace or absolute death. No middle ground.
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