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"In A Mirror Darkly" ruminations $(contains spoilers)$
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [qb]1. This timeline and these events are actually how the timeline was SUPPOSED to happen. Ergo, the mirror universe is actually the "real" universe, and the universe of regular Star Trek is the "alternate" one thanks to the time meddling (Never mind the fact that the "alternate" timeline worked out better for everyone involved). [/qb][/QUOTE]It depends on whether you see the events of FC as a causal loop or just a shift in the timeline. In the "normal" Trek timeline, did Picard & crew [i]always[/i] help Cochrane, or did he and his cohorts originally do it by themselves? Did essentially the same events (with different details) occur before the Borg interfered and Our Heroes<sup>TM</sup> merely "corrected" the interference? Or is the original history that the E-E crew read about actually the same one they helped to create? I suppose the corollary to this, as much as I hate to admit it, is whether or not ENT is an alternate timeline or not. Because ENT's timeline has been impacted by the temporal events of FC as seen in "Regeneration." But that same episode does seem to imply that a causal loop *is* in fact in place, as the Borg signal is intended to be the original reason why the Borg were heading for Earth in "Q Who?" (TNG). There are other numerous factors which point to ENT being the "true" history of TOS and everything else as well, so I suppose the causal loop-scenario is in fact correct. However, there is definitely something more to the MU than just an (un)altered timeline. It's not just an [i]alternate[/i] universe but a truly [i]parallel[/i] one. There is some mysterious reason why everything in our universe has an equal and opposite counterpart in the MU. Of course, one could argue that this has been inconsistent across series, or even within episodes. In the original "Mirror Mirror" (TOS), while Kirk and McCoy, et al, were literally polar opposites of themselves in the MU, Spock was still a logical, cool-headed Vulcan. There seems to be two different "uses" of the MU by writers. Firstly, to allow actors to play characters of completely opposite nature to the ones they normally play; and secondly, to show what a particular character might have turned out like if they had been exposed to different life circumstances. Very strange, indeed... -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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