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'They're not just simply evil,' David Tipton explains. I think it's just this rich mine of material to play with these characters.'īut there's a trick to characterizing Mirror Universe characters. Discovery has been dipping their toes in that water too. 'And not just us and not just Star Trek Online. 'I think it's been mostly pretty organic,' Star Trek comics writer Scott Tipton tells during a group interview, speaking of the bounty of Mirror Universe content now available to Star Trek fans.

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IDW Publishing has released a series of comics set primarily in that timeline, including one, Succession, that picked up where Discovery left off. The multiplayer video game Star Trek Online, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by Perfect World Entertainment, made the Mirror Universe the focus of several new episodic content additions. However, arguably, the Mirror Universe has nowhere been more thoroughly explored than in Star Trek's recent tie-in media. Star Trek: Discoverymade the Mirror Universe relevant again by making it a focal point of its first season. Woodward for Star TreK: The Next Generation – Mirror Broken, IDW Publishing) The prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise also paid the Mirror Universe a visit in the two-part episode 'In a Mirror, Darkly,' the first episode set entirely in the Mirror Universe with no crossover from the show's main characters.

The idea of a parallel 'dark' universe has since popped up elsewhere in popular culture and growing a goatee became playful shorthand for turning evil.ĭecades after 'Mirror, Mirror' debuted, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine returned to the Mirror Universe in several episodes, revealing that Spock's reforms led to the Terran Empire's fall and the rise of an equally cruel alliance of Klingons and Cardassians. 'Mirror, Mirror' became one of Star Trek's best-known episodes. Kirk even manages to convince the mirror universe's Spock, with his iconic goatee, to bring reform to the Terran Empire, moving it towards the principals of the Federation. As was typical of television of the era, the plot resolves itself by the episode's end, with each character returned to their original universe. Instead, the Terran Empire reigns, and the crew of that empire's ISS Enterprise are as ruthless and ambitious as their counterparts on the USS Enterprise are curious and compassionate. In that universe, the United Federation of Planets does not exist. Each of these is a T6 ship card for a named version of a ship from that holding, and several have unusual special bonus powers.On October 6, 1967, Star Trek: The Original Series introduced its viewers to a whole new universe in the episode 'Mirror, Mirror.' The episode's premise is that a transporter malfunction causes Captain Kirk and his crewmates to swap places with their doppelgangers from a parallel timeline.

In addition, each holding at Tier 3 now has an ultra-rare admiralty ship, again themed to the holding in question.

Some of these duty officers have new features or unusual active roster abilities, while others have desirable combinations of traits! And of course, higher quality in a duty officer is always a plus.

Every holding now has new Tier 3 rewards, including several ultra-rare duty officers, all of the type you'd expect: Romulans from the Embassy, Voth from the Spire, time-displaced officers from K-13, miners from the dilithium mine, Krenim R&D crew from the research lab, and Lukari and Kentari from the colony world.

We've fixed a bug that caused certain rare-quality Romulan Embassy bridge officers to become very rare quality when commissioned-not to worry, though, if you already have one it won't change, and there are new very rare-quality Superior Romulan Operatives at the Embassy.

Fleet-specific missions now have their own section in the mission journal.Members of Klingon fleets should find it much easier to get the attention of their transporter officer for beam-out now.Your fleet transwarp to Bajor now actually goes to Bajor!.In addition, we've gone through and fixed several fleet bugs, to improve your overall fleet experience. We've made several updates to fleets, and they're coming your way! If you're in a fleet, prepare for all-new high-quality rewards that you can requisition from your various fleet holdings.

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