Mirror!verse Notes
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thenowinscenarioSometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure, I'm sure you know that, Doctor.- Kirk to McCoy (TOS 1.27 The Alternative Factor)
Mirror!Kirk is based on the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror" (2.04) and is a mix of the TOS mirror!verse comic Mirror Images (IDW) and the AOS Mirrored comic from the ongoing Star Trek (IDW, Chapters 15 and 16).
James T. Kirk served under Captain Pike on the flagship of the Terran Empire, the ISS Enterprise. The Imperial warship acted as the iron fist of the Empire's reign, exterminating and enslaving alien species and putting them to work mining resources and doing menial labour. Vying for an occupational advancement, Commander Kirk began a series of subtle attempts on Captain Pike's life, always remaining careful to ensure there were never any solid connections or leads back to himself. With each successive failure, Kirk gained enemies and lost time; every attempt was an increased chance to be found and outed for attempted assassination and mutiny. The consequences would be dire. Using his exceptional charm and the promises of fortune, positions, and power, he swayed parts of the crew out from under Pike: McCoy, the chief medical officer and Jim's close friend; Spock, the senior science officer; Scott, the chief engineer; and several of the ship's security team.
Getting restless and impatient, Kirk almost succeeds on Pike's life while the Captain is planetside, claiming the people and land for the Empire. The plan was far more direct that his others, involving a "faulty" shuttle rigged to explode when Pike is due to have boarded. However, a delay from dispatching a rebel alien faction buys Pike the minutes he needs to avoid his incineration.
Pike wasn't oblivious to these attempt, nor who would benefit most from his downfall. There was no certain evidence, but Kirk was fully in his sights with his friend, McCoy, under great suspicion. He employed his most trust-worth crew member, Spock, to monitor his first in command. Working in tandem with his crew, Jim kept Pike distracted with delays and misinformation, even having McCoy come to him with vague and misleading whispers of Kirk's treachery to keep the doctor's name and reputation with Captain Pike stable. Mr. Scott remained completely off the radar, though his own difficulties arose from working Jim's schemes with the ship from under the watchful Sulu's eye.
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Captain Kirk led a branch of the attack on the Klingon home world of Qo'nos and some of the nearby prison planets and asteroids, namely Rura Penthe, where Nero and his crew were still being held captive after the Kelvin crippled their ship decades earlier. Seeking revenge, Kirk took a strike team into the holding cells, torturing Nero's crew until they were given the access codes to the Narada's controls and dispatching them after they outlived their use. Kirk handled Nero by himself, detailing the cause of his vengeance as the murder of his father while beating the Romulan within an inch of his life, finally snapping his neck with his bare hands.
Taking the Narada for himself and his team, Kirk assumed command of the vessel and all advanced technology aboard. Scotty found Nero's Debrune Teral'n in the Captain's quarters and relinquished the weapon to Kirk; fitting, given that this is the greatest symbol of the Romulan Star Empire and was formerly kept in possession of the high-ruling senate before Nero appropriated it.
With the aid of Uhura's translation, they team tracked the wormhole anomaly down an intercepted Spock Prime as he came through, capturing both him and his ship. Kirk attempted to interrogate him about the red matter with limited success, though learning some about Spock Prime's universe in the process. Scotty deduced the nature of the red matter himself, making Spock Prime expendable and swiftly disposed of.
In control of the Imperium's flagship, the futuristic Borg/Romulan hybrid ship, and the Vulcan-made fastest ship in the universe carrying an unbelievable weapon, Captain Kirk is in a position of power over whomever he chooses to exert it upon. But Captain Kirk's ambition isn't content to stay just a Captain taking orders from the Empire and he has many enemies, including those eager to usurp his position the moment he shows weakness among his crew.
I AM the No-Win Scenario.
⇐The Crew⇒
Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy
- ∴ Bones. The closest and most trustworthy of Kirk's coterie. If there's a man Jim would call a confidant, a person who would never betray him even under duress, it would be Leonard McCoy. He's know him longer than anyone else on his crew, and that's given the doctor a certain extent of freedom to push back not afforded to almost anyone else.
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Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
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Nyota Uhura
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Pavel Chekov
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Hikaru Sulu
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⇐The Ship⇒
The Narada
∴ Pre Borg retrofitting.
∴ Post Borg retrofitting.
∴ Details [1] [2] [3]
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Narada
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Narada
- ∴ In the Star Trek prequel comic book miniseries Star Trek: Countdown, the Narada's advanced weaponry and appearance are explained as being the result of the ship being retrofitted with salvaged and reverse-engineered Borg technology. The Tal Shiar in the 24th century had been experimenting with Borg technology, and Nero's ship was the experimental vessel used. The Narada was retrofitted at the Vault, a cloaked military installation in deep space, subsequent to the destruction of Romulus. The Borg nanoprobes allowed the ship to grow and repair itself, and also take on a much larger and more menacing appearance. The ship's speed was increased from Warp 9.8 to "...immeasurable transwarp speeds." This information also appeared on the Blu-ray release of the film in the supplement section "Starships."
- ∴ Despite being only a mining vessel in its own time, the Narada possessed weaponry far more advanced than that of any ships it encountered in the 23rd century. The primary weapons seemed to be highly destructive missiles, each of which could break into several component projectiles. These projectiles were powerful enough to penetrate the standard shielding which starships of the time utilized. The Narada housed at least enough of these weapons to easily destroy entire fleets of ships; more than fifty vessels were destroyed over twenty-five years, including a fleet of Federation starships deployed against it over Vulcan and six of the seven Federation ships sent to investigate Nero's attack on that planet.As a mining vessel, the Narada also had an immense drilling apparatus, which was a platform at the end of a lengthy boom seemingly hundreds of kilometers long. The drill emitted a powerful beam that could penetrate a planet's surface and continue all the way to its core. The high energy output from the beam itself also acted as a disruptor of sorts, causing localised interferance in communications and beaming transporter signals. With the Jellyfish in its possession, the Narada could also deploy bombs loaded with incredibly destructive red matter.
- ∴ A deleted scene from the film establishes that the Narada was crippled after it was rammed by the Kelvin. A convoy of Klingon warbirds eventually arrived and captured the ship and its crew. Twenty five years later, Nero and his crew escaped from their imprisonment on Rura Penthe, reclaimed the Narada, used the ship to destroy 47 Klingon warbirds, and continued on their mission.
The Enterprise
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The Jellyfish
∴ The Jellyfish.
∴ Details [1] [2] [3]
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Jellyfish_%28ship%29
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Jellyfish
- ∴The design of this starship was made by Geordi La Forge in conjunction with the Daystrom Institute as well as the Vulcan Science Academy at some point in the 2380's. The ship was created with the intention of being used as part of scientific as well as exploration missions. Starfleet was working with the creators of the ship in order to determine which of the ship systems were capable of being adapted for use by the Federation.
- ∴ In 2387, the ship was modified during the Hobus Crisis when the unstable star threatened to create a shockwave that would destroy entire worlds in its path with Romulus being the first planet facing a possibility of destruction. The Jellyfish was chamber designed for the safe storage and transport of red matter, as well as a means of extracting the matter for the purposes of its mission.
- ∴ This experimental series of space craft were designed to be equipped with trans-metaphasic shielding which was capable of withstanding conditions that would destroy most other starships. Through the use of this form of special shielding, the Jellyfish was capable of moving through more dangerous terrain and survive it such as the interior of a star. They were designed for use by a single occupant with the vessel being the size of a shuttle craft. It contained a warp drive which was able to attain warp eight as well as four forward mounted torpedo launchers.
Mudd's Trader Ship
∴ The Jellyfish.
∴ Details [1] [2] [3]
- ∴ Appropriated from Harry Mudd's half-Bajoran daughter, known only as 'Mudd'. Every bit her father's daughter, Mudd specializes in procuring goods- illegal or not- and selling them back to the highest bidder. She was detained and her ship appropriated while delivering appropriated Starfleet weapons and technology to a planet of what should have been a developing race of aliens, and instead on the brink of genocidal inter-species war and Klingon invasion.
- ∴ There's nothing exceptionally remarkable about the ship- a standard intergalactic (if immorally obtained) trade ship, unmarked and good for reasonable distances with admirably manoeuvrability for a shuttle of its class. Stored safely inside the Enterprise.
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First Contact
Date: 2013-06-17 08:40 pm (UTC)Instead of the Vulcans gradually releasing technology to Earth over time, the Terran Empire applied the stolen Vulcan technology to a policy of aggressive expansion. Because of this, the Empire was able to engage in technological research and development considerably earlier than its traditional counterpart. Thus, the Starfleet of the mirror universe was somewhat more advanced than its counterpart. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")
22nd Century
Date: 2013-06-17 08:42 pm (UTC)By 2155, the Terran Empire had already conquered the Vulcans, Denobulans, Andorians, Orions and Tellarites and had launched attacks against the Klingons, Rigelians, and Xindi. However, the flagship of the Empire, the Enterprise, under the command of Captain Maximilian Forrest, had a much more racially-diverse crew than its regular universe counterpart, with numerous Vulcans and Tellarites serving as crewmembers.
In that year, the USS Defiant, a Federation ship launched in the 23rd century of a parallel universe, was reported in Tholian space. The first officer of the ISS Enterprise, Commander Archer, reviewed the reception of this distress call and proposed a bold surgical strike at the asteroid base at which the Tholians were keeping the Defiant. Archer's proposal was quickly rejected by Forrest, causing Archer to mutiny against his Captain and take control of Enterprise to retrieve the Defiant so its technology could be utilized against the rebellion. Enterprise arrived and dispatched a boarding party to gain all information they could about the ship, and destroy it to prevent the Tholians from being able to use it. Unfortunately, during the retrieval operation, the Tholians attacked Enterprise and destroyed it, stranding the boarding party aboard the Defiant. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")
Following the destruction of the ISS Enterprise and the death of Captain Forrest, Commander Archer and his away team commandeered the USS Defiant. They proceeded to destroy the Tholian hangar in which the ship was being held and rescued a number of former Enterprise crewmembers, including Hoshi Sato, after apparent consideration of leaving their comrades stranded. Archer made a rendezvous with the ISS Avenger, the flagship of Admiral Black. Archer vaporized the admiral and took command of both vessels. Commander T'Pol and Crewman Soval led a mutiny of the non-Human crewmembers on board the Avenger and attacked the Defiant in hopes of destroying it. They were destroyed after Commander Charles Tucker reinitialized the power systems that Phlox had attempted to disable. Commander Archer, acting as Captain, then set a direct course for Earth, where he intended to declare himself Emperor of the Terran Empire. However, Hoshi Sato poisoned him with the assistance of his bodyguard Travis Mayweather. The two then took control of the Defiant, and upon arriving at Earth, Sato declared herself Empress. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")
It remains unclear as to whether Sato actually established herself as Empress, or if the Defiant played any further role in the Mirror Universe. However, the book Glass Empires follows Hoshi as she establishes herself using the power of the vessel.
Somewhere between 2155 and 2267, the symbol of the Empire appears to have been altered. The earlier symbol closely resembles that of the United Earth government, depicting all of Earth's continents, though replacing a laurel of peace with an aggressive sword. However, by the mid-23rd century, the symbol, while remaining essentially the same, depicted only the continents of Earth's western hemisphere, suggesting the seeds of the Empire were sown in that hemisphere.
23rd and 24th Centuries
Date: 2013-06-17 08:43 pm (UTC)As Kirk predicted, the mirror-Spock later became the captain of the ISS Enterprise and eventually rose to become Commander-in-Chief of the Empire. He began instituting major reforms that were very popular, turning the Empire into a more peaceful and less aggressive power. Unfortunately, Spock's reforms left the Empire unprepared to defend itself against the emerging threat of a united Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, which managed to conquer the entire Terran Empire, turning the Terrans themselves into a slave race. The Bajorans, a people conquered by the Empire, came to be a powerful voice in this Alliance. (DS9: "Crossover")
Apocrypha
Date: 2013-06-17 08:44 pm (UTC)In the game Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force, part of the story involves going through a scavenger base composed of many species' ships. One of these ships is a Empire Starfleet vessel, apparently dating back to the 23rd Century. It is populated by Humans, who behave typically for the mirror universe. How it came to be in Voyager's canon dimension is unknown.
Source
Date: 2013-06-20 07:37 am (UTC)