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=== The Mirror Universe ===
The Mirror Universe is a parallel universe in which [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|things have gone differently]] in Earth's history, leading to things becoming less hippy and more [[awesome]]. The main point of divergence appears to occur when the Vulcan scientists who landed at Bozeman, Montana in 2063 are not welcomed with alcohol and music but instead are killed and have their ship looted, though some sources have hinted at earlier differences. Instead of a peace loving Federation searching for knowledge and friendly cooperation for the betterment of all, the ''Terran Empire'' seeks out new life and civilizations to conquer and enslave, as it had done with the Klingons. Pretty much it's the PG-13 version of the Imperium of Man with a bit more Grimderp. Junior officers get promoted by killing their superiors, those who fail at that get thrown in the agony booth for their troubles and the Emperor gets the job by usurping the previous incumbent. As a rule, characters in the mainline become, in the Mirror Universe, a selfish asshole version of themselves or have to go along to get along; examples of the latter include O'Brien and Spock. Following comic book logic the uniforms for the female characters are more revealing, and facial hair is vogue. Occasionally people can cross over from one universe to the next due to technobabble and cause mischief in either realm.

Originally it was a one off TOS setting for an episode of the week, but it was brought back in a few novels and some romps in Deep Space Nine in which [[Fail|the Terran Empire had fallen]]. In Enterprise's fourth season it got a two parter that was pretty good and would have been an annual thing if the show had been renewed, this one having little crossover with the main universe (a ship from TOS ended up in the Mirror Universe and is salvaged after all it's crew have died). We also went there in Discovery, for better or worse. Voyager never did the mirror universe, but instead got a homage episode with some alien historians in the far future getting the details wrong like historians tend to.