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We’re all mad here… in the mirror universe

By Ames

Star Trek’s infamous mirror universe has its stans (one of them is inexplicably on this podcast), but holy Prophets, is it stupid if you’re unfortunate enough to actually think about it. Just the butterfly effect of it all makes everything that exists within it not only unlikely but absolutely bananas. And yet there’s a lot to love about it if you can just suspend your disbelief long enough. We talked last week about the sheer enjoyment you can get from watching the characters acting as their flippy-flop selves because of how they swing wildly for the fences.

So this week, the A Star to Steer Her By hosts are looking at the episodes themselves. Do they hold up to scrutiny or do they only really work if you accept that you’ve entered some kind of wonderland where everything is slightly bonkers? Suspend your disbelief with us as you scroll on below and listen to our scheming on this week’s podcast episode for our thoughts (transport over to 1:00:18) on mirror universe appearances throughout Trek. Off with your head!

The Shadow Cast is Darkest in a Sea of Light: In Defense of The Mirrorverse

I’ve finally gotten to the mirrorverse plot line in Star Trek Discovery and have seen many people complain about Star Trek going “grim dark” with Picard and Discovery and this element of the series being a common example.

I humbly disagree

There’s a phrase you hear often that light shines brightest in darkness

I believe the equal and opposite is true as well

Star Trek is about optimism and, like this series’ namesake, discovery. The mirrorverse is deliberately the opposite. The mirrorverse is a black hole in a sea of light, impenetrably dark in contrast to what shines around it.

When we watch settings that are inherently dark and gritty like Dune or Blade Runner, we become accustomed to the cruelty and relative, degraded morality of it all. We get used to it as we get used to the setting and the people it creates.

Star Trek, Discovery included, even at times of war, is laced with people who dream of a better future and want to end the war to continue striving for that future unfettered. They live in a near Utopia, with utopian ideals. The audience finds themselves believing it too, which is ultimately Star Trek’s largest unique appeal.

Thrusting those people and ideals into a pit of darkness lets you appreciate the darkness for what it truly is; horrific, xenophobic, unjust, and unkind. You get used to, even hold sacred, the optimism Starfleet creates. So your emotional reaction to the horrors of Starfleet’s polar opposite are raw and shocking. You recognize the evil more acutely after being submerged in the good. It’s a brutal reminder of the world Star Trek and it’s characters rejects. As long as they don’t stay in the Mirror Universe, I’m not too concerned about Trek sliding too far into the shadows, especially with Lower Decks, Prodigy and Strange New Worlds exploring the less morally muddy waters than other recent trek.

TL:DR I love the mirrorverse. I’m not saying people who don’t are wrong, I just see the appeal as something that doesn’t clash as badly with Star Trek’s founding ideals as some people seem to believe. I find those arcs and struggles played up against different crews and Federation time periods fascinating. Everyone reacts differently to their worst selves and has their own ways of sticking to their better identity, I think that’s as Star Trek as it gets.

#Star Trek #Star Trek discovery #st disco #mirror universe #mirrorverse #the wolf inside #Star Trek meta #meta #grim dark #god it has been a long time #finally have something intelligent to say again lmao #Lars speaks Star Trek

Stamets sitting on the floor with Culber’s lifeless body in his arms just breaks me 😭

#ash’s complete star trek rewatch #hugh culber #paul stamets #star trek discovery #st disco #1x11 #the wolf inside

wait...they think that Stamets killed Culber....what if he wakes up and the fucking tell him that I'M GONNA SCREAM OH MY GOD

#star trek #star trek disco #paul stamets #hugh culber #culmets #1x11 #the wolf inside #i hate this #there were other ways to keep tyler's secret under wraps without killing culber

If Mirror Sarek was a leader of the resistance against the Terran Empire, how the fuck did Mirror Spock become a commanding officer of an ISS ship?

#mirror mirror #the wolf inside #star trek discovery #sarek #st disco #dis #tos #txt

re-watching the mirror universe episodes for fic reasons and decided to make some gifs for 1x11 the wolf inside.

michael: we’re done here

michae: go check on my prisoner

#star trek discovery #ashburn #michael burnham #ash tyler #michael burnham x ash tyler #gifs #pretty pretty pictures #the wolf inside #sonequa martin-green #shazad latif

So I finally did it. Have started an original work. which I’m currently quite pleased about. Thank you @strwxberrymilk for giving my confidence a boost. Here is a snippet from Chapter One.

I remembered my first werewolf kill. My father had been proud of me that day too. We’d laid an ambush. Why werewolves drove cars rather than ran, I could never understand. Probably to try and fit in. That's not to say they didn't run in wolf form sometimes. Mostly though when travelling from city to city they drove. By the time he saw the stinger, it was too late. Tyres ripped to shreds and his car not going anywhere. When he’d emerged from the car, he’d known it was an ambush. He’d shifted there and then, into a big black wolf, twice the size of a normal one.

Father had given me a crossbow for my fourteenth birthday. I had coated the bolt tips in Wolfsbane. It was illegal to grow or possess the plant, the penalty for that was death. Unless you lived on the fringe, then it was a must have. Silver was scarce. Silver and Wolfsbane, the only two things that could take a werewolf down.

I had fired my crossbow, the bolt had hit the wolf in the shoulder. My father was so proud of me at that moment. He hugged me, and my brothers stood there, patting me on the back.

We’d walked over to where the wolf was laying on the ground, he was groaning, hurt. I didn't feel sorry for him, he was the enemy. They never took prisoners, why should we! When my father handed me the axe, I swung it hard, slicing through the beasts neck without hesitation. It took two attempts, and it was dead. My face was spattered in the beasts blood. First blood, my father had called it. He had stood behind me, gripping my shoulders, as the wolf shifted back into a man. His head separated from his body.

“Look at him, Erin. Always remember, they may look like us, but they’re monsters!”

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