Mirror, Mirror story
A transporter mishap slips Captain Kirk and his companions into a parallel universe , where the Enterprise serves a barbaric Empire instead of the Federation. This episode spun off several plotlines in Deep Space Nine and Enterprise .
30 total · 4 choice · 8 major · 18 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| opposite world | choice | A transporter mishap sent Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura into a parallel universe populated with their evil counterparts. |
| parallel universe | choice | the mirror universe |
| the human capacity for good and evil | choice | mirror Kirk was pure evil, mirror Spock not so bad |
| what if I found myself in an alternate reality | choice | A transporter mishap sent Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura into a parallel universe populated with their evil counterparts. |
| civilization vs. savagery | major | Federation in contrast to mirror universe Empire |
| diplomacy vs. force | major | Federation approach to getting access to Halkan dilithium vs. savage mirror universe guys approach |
| imperialism | major | The Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe sought to conquer the galaxy. |
| military dictatorship | major | Terran Empire |
| pacifism | major | Halkan :: the Halkans |
| rule by strength of arm | major | mirror-universe power structure |