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"In A Mirror Darkly" ruminations $(contains spoilers)$
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [qb] Well, it is too wacky. Any mirror-universe will look vastly different the further away from the point of divergence. It's a simple domino effect. You start one chain of events off and it's going to go in an entirely different direction. [/qb][/QUOTE]The beauty of infinite parallel universes is that, by the very idea of an infinite number of them, there must be one or more which look exactly like this one but for some minor change. That overrides the domino notion quite handily. This also means that if you don't like a particular mirror-universe story, you're perfectly at liberty to disregard it as being part of another parallel universe . . . though if it refers back to another episode you must assume the point of divergence is after that one. For instance, there would indeed be a parallel universe in which Mirror-Spock's changes to the Terran Empire did not result in the Alliance destroying them and enslaving humanity. (That's one thing I never liked about the DS9 MU visits, since the notion that peace was, on a practical level, "a bad thing" bothered me, and undercut the original TOS ep. But, with infinite universes, that's no problem at all.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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