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Cryptic seriously dropped the ball with the Mirror Universe.
emacsheadroom
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By not having a single mirror version of any of the other in-game characters.
I have nothing against Chase Masterson and I do appreciate her reprising a role from 20 years ago to enrich the STO universe, but I also don't feel ashamed to confess that Leeta was not really a DS9 character I invested much in.
Where's Jorel, the drunken derelict who just needs a little inspiration to start a resistance against the Terran Empire? Where's Grand Inquisitor D'tan, the Romulan judge obsessed with ideological purity? Where's J'mpok the pacifist who languished in Regent Worf's prison of the dishonoured and had a chance to escapee when the Terran Empire conquered the Klingons?
But most importantly: Where the heck is Mirror Shon with his white goatee?
Cryptic writers, start taking some notes.
I have nothing against Chase Masterson and I do appreciate her reprising a role from 20 years ago to enrich the STO universe, but I also don't feel ashamed to confess that Leeta was not really a DS9 character I invested much in.
Where's Jorel, the drunken derelict who just needs a little inspiration to start a resistance against the Terran Empire? Where's Grand Inquisitor D'tan, the Romulan judge obsessed with ideological purity? Where's J'mpok the pacifist who languished in Regent Worf's prison of the dishonoured and had a chance to escapee when the Terran Empire conquered the Klingons?
But most importantly: Where the heck is Mirror Shon with his white goatee?
Cryptic writers, start taking some notes.
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It's like watching Kim Jong Un aspiring to be Joseph Stalin.
Much like Mirror Archer. Using grav plating and a full team to take out one Gorn.
The whole Mirror Universe is just a bunch of unstable morons and cowards.
Unstable: look how she destroyed one of her own ships just to give off a signal that she won't tolerate mutiny. Like they have that much ships to spare after all their defeats. Or how she almost killed her own first officer by not being able to control herself and throwing knifes across her own bridge.
Cowards: as in they'll strike from behind in their ever-lasting opportunism.
I honestly don't understand why people like the Mirror Universe so much. Besides the moronic behaviour of some of its major characters, their whole universe and its major factions seem to be one giant failure and it's hard to identify with any of it.
Not every villain has to play to the same type (incompetence is a valid character trait.)
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Incorrect, it was James O'Brien.
Ah. Ok. It's been awhile.
Still, there was a time when Leeta was not the MU villain in charge of everything. And that character is related to the DS9 Mirror stories.
I imagine we may even see an entire update dedicated to resolving the Mirror Invasion once and for all. Might even see the return of "DS9 Under Siege!" in some form, considering even the True Way is involved in Mirror Universe nonsense.
XD Good comparison! So true!
Ah I always figured as much. Now if only completing either gave you the old floor trophy like way back when, lol.
She's been the villain leading the MU invasions and the MU forces. The figurehead for now. My point was, in the past that was not her.
That they did use an O'Brien, which was tied to the canon episode and the character of Smiley.
And who know what the future holds? Possibly it's all just Mirror Agent Daniels or even the Time Trapper himself.
I've seen it. Trust me. You really don't want to know where it is.
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I hear she shaves it. The goatee, I mean...
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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It is not impossible to do it temporarily. Mind Game and Coliseum are both missions where the almighty player character is imprisoned and barely escapes. Mind Game had an undercover agent remove the brainwashing while Coliseum had us transported just before our characters were killed. The Battle of Caleb IV requires temporal interference to save our crew. Our character's past selves were destroyed and they were killed in action over 100 years ago.
Perhaps it's "on the drawing board" and they'll release it in the future as an entire Episode line.
Having more than one Mirror Universe character featured in Episodes is fine for immersion, yes- but it would have served them much better if they had utilized the timeline/mirror premise for more than just a Fed-related content expansion with an alternate tutorial, IMO.
Being critical doesn't take skill. Being constructively critical- which is providing alternative solutions or suggestions to a demonstrated problem, however, does.
Not only would you have to have the exact same parents in both universes (which would be unlikely), you'd have to be conceived at the same exact instant.
I mean, I realize this is Star Trek, which requires you to believe several impossible things. But the mirror universe just breaks simple logic. So the less we see of it, the better.
Ignoring a problem doesn't make it "go away".
Being critical doesn't take skill. Being constructively critical- which is providing alternative solutions or suggestions to a demonstrated problem, however, does.
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