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The Mirror Universe is a fictional parallel universe in which the plots of several Star Trek television episodes take place. It resembles the fictional universe in which the Star Trek TV series takes place, but is separate from the main universe. The characters in the Mirror Universe are aggressive, mistrustful, and opportunistic in personality. Whereas the Star Trek universe depicts an optimistic future in which the Earth-based United Federation of Planets values peace, co-operation and exploration, episodes set in the Mirror Universe feature the human-dominated authoritarian Terran Empire which values war, despotism, and conquest instead. The Mirror Universe has been visited in one episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, five episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and a two-part episode of Star Trek: Enterprise as well as several non-canon Star Trek novels and video games. It is named after "Mirror, Mirror", the original series episode in which it first appeared.
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- mirror universe hindi
- Is there a mirror universe
- The Original Series
- Deep Space Nine
- Enterprise
- Novels
- Star Trek Stargazer
- Dark Mirror
- Shatnerverse
- Star Trek Mirror Universe
- Games
- Comics
- Web series
- References
Is there a mirror universe
The Original Series
The Mirror Universe was first introduced in the original Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror", which featured the brutal Terran Empire, run by humans and their Vulcan allies, in place of the United Federation of Planets. The Mirror Captain Kirk of the ISS Enterprise was a mass murderer who was promoted to Captain after assassinating Captain Christopher Pike. Discipline aboard starships was enforced through torture — either through agonizers carried by crewmembers or agony booths. Officers were barbaric in behavior and advanced in rank by killing superiors who they thought were incompetent. Roman/Nazi-style military salutes were used by crewmembers to show loyalty to their captain.
Deep Space Nine
The Mirror Universe was later revisited in the Deep Space Nine second-season episode "Crossover", and turned into a storyarc that spanned into the final season, with five Mirror Universe episodes over the course of five seasons. The show reveals that when exposed to individuals from the normal universe, the Terran Empire began to reform itself for the better, but was overthrown in the 23rd century by an alliance of alien species who took advantage of the Empire's self-weakening and conquered it, enslaving Terrans and Vulcans in the process.
Enterprise
A two-part episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, entitled "In a Mirror, Darkly", introduces the early developments of the Mirror Universe.
Novels
In addition to the TV episodes, several novels – as well a number of short stories in Star Trek anthologies – make use of the Mirror Universe setting. Elements of these novels may contradict continuity as established in later TV episodes.
Star Trek: Stargazer
The Star Trek: Stargazer novel Three by Michael Jan Friedman also features the Mirror Universe.
Dark Mirror
The Star Trek: The Next Generation book Dark Mirror, written by Diane Duane, offers another explanation of what happened after Captain Kirk and three of his crew encountered the Mirror Universe. In the novel, the Empire is still in existence in the 24th century. The point of divergence initially appears to be the Eugenics Wars where the genetic supermen were not defeated and eventually turned on each other resulting in atomic war, but works dating back to the days of ancient Greece supporting the Empire's current mindset are noted.
Shatnerverse
Various novels have been set in the Deep Space Nine version of the Mirror Universe, including a trilogy by William Shatner, which reveals the Mirror Kirk (or "Emperor Tiberius" as he calls himself) is still alive and plotting to reconquer the Empire.
Star Trek: Mirror Universe
Two collections of Mirror stories were published in 2007: the first involves Mirror Enterprise, TOS and TNG and the second features Mirror DS9, Voyager and New Frontier.
A third collection, entitled Shards and Shadows, was released in January 2009. The Mirror Universe storyline was concluded in the novel Rise Like Lions, released in November 2011. A further story taking place in the Mirror Universe, Section 31 - Disavowed, was released in October 2014.
Games
A number of Star Trek games take place in the Mirror Universe or reference it. Among them, the first-person shooter Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, the massively multiplayer online game Star Trek Online, the battle simulator Star Trek: Shattered Universe which is entirely set in the Mirror Universe, Decipher's tabletop roleplaying game, and Star Trek: Attack Wing.
Comics
The Mirror Universe Saga is a trade paperback that reprints eight issues of DC Comics' Star Trek comic book (issues #9 - #16) chronicling an encounter between the Mirror Universe and our own. It is set immediately after the events of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, which had just been released shortly before the series was first published. The series was credited to Mike W. Barr, Tom Sutton, and Ricard Villagran.
This story, like all Trek comics stories and novels, is not considered canonical with the main Star Trek universe.
Web series
Star Trek Continues is a fan-produced non-canon web series set in the timeframe of the original Star Trek series. Its third episode, "Fairest of Them All" was released in 2014 and is a direct continuation of the episode "Mirror, Mirror". It features Asia DeMarcos as Marlena Moreau (played in the original series by BarBara Luna), Bobby Clark as Council Leader Tharn, Bobby Quinn Rice as Transporter Technician, Michael Dorn as the computer of the ISS Enterprise, and the Kipleigh Brown as Barbara Smith (played in the original series by Andrea Dromm).