STAR TREK: MIRROR UNIVERSE
Because of the flaws in the supposed temporal mechanics of the Star Trek: Coda versus the established temporal mechanics of the Star Trek Universe, which I discussed in my take down of ‘Coda’, along with what happened in the opening teaser of “In a Mirror Darkly”, I submit that the Mirror Universe came about due to the events of Coda, and that actual Prime Universe, dubbed ‘First Splinter Timeline’ by the soulless minions of orthodoxy at Paramount, continued on past the beginning of Coda.
With the timeline erased back to 2063, there was never a CAPT Picard and USS Enterprise to go back in time and ensure that First Contact came about the way it did at the end of Star Trek: First Contact.
In this chronology, Classic Trek mixes with Nu Trek, and includes novels, novellas, and short stories from the ‘Relaunch’ Novelverse. Yes, there is discontinuity between these various sources, but in some cases there is also at least slight (and some major) discontinuity within them.
ENT Season 1
2063
ST:ENT
s04e18e19 “In a Mirror Darkly” (Teaser)
(Vulcans make First Contact with Earth
at Bozeman, Montana, after the Phoenix
draws the attention of their survey ship T'Plana-Hath by reaching warp
speed; instead of shaking the newcomer’s hand, the mirror Zefram Cochrane
shoots him and the Terrans seize the ship)
2155
ST:ENT
s04e18e19 “In a Mirror Darkly”
(the rest of this two-part episode
takes place entirely in the Mirror Universe, featuring the ISS Enterprise discovering the USS Defiant which crossed over during the
events of ST:TOS “The Tholian Web”; beginning of the Terran Empire Rebellion
against it, and the series of events that leads to Empress Hoshi Sato)
ST MU: Glass Empires: Age of the
Empress
(Empress Hoshi Sato I loses her throne
to the Andorians when she is kidnapped by them; after she is freed by T’Pol and
regains her throne, she makes Vulcans equal to Terrans)
2156
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - “Nobunaga”
(Mirror Charles Tucker is tortured by
mirror Phlox to learn the prefix code of the ISS Nobunaga, stolen by Jonathan Archer with Tucker’s help)
2248
ST MU: Shards and Shadows, “Ill Winds”
(features mirror CAPT Robert April of
the ISS Constellation and his wife
mirror Sarah, inventor of the agonizer)
2256
ST:DSC
s01e09 “Into the Forest I Go”
ST:DSC
s01e10 “Despite Yourself”
ST:DSC
s01e11 “The Wolf Inside”
ST:DSC
s01e12 “Vaulting Ambition”
ST:DSC
s01e13 “What’s Past is Prologue”
(Five-part saga of the USS Discovery, commanded by CAPT Gabriel
Lorca, crossing over to the Mirror Universe “accidentally” in the midst of the
Klingon war, discovering the Terran Empire, counterparts of most of the crew,
and the Empress in the form of Mirror Philippa Georgiou whose Prime Universe
counterpart died at the Battle of the Binary Stars (ST:DSC s01e02); also that
CAPT Lorca is actually Mirror CAPT Lorca, formerly of the ISS Buran.
When they finally return, minus the imposter but plus former Empress
Georgiou, nine months have passed. All
are sworn to secrecy as absolute as that later surrounding the Taurus
Meta-genome.)
2255 (3189)
ST:DSC
s03e09e10 “Terra Firma”
(the Guardian of Forever sends Georgiou
back in time from 3189 more than a century to 2255 and over to the Mirror
Universe, at the period of Lorca’s attempted coup d’etat against her, where she
learns the whole truth about the plot’s full extent; the process is to
synchronize her quantum signature with that of the Prime Universe; the bulk of
the story takes place this year, though the framing story is in 3189, the time
in which the Georgiou of the story is now from; and yes, in purely
chronological terms this entry comes before the previous entry, but the
Georgiou acting in the past events is the 34th century Georgiou)
2264
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - “The Greater Good”
(with the help of Spock and Marlena
Moreau, James T. Kirk of ISS Farragut
assassinates Christopher Pike and Number One of ISS Enterprise and takes control of it, with Spock as first officer)
2267
ST:TOS
s02e10 “Mirror, Mirror”
(due to a transporter malfunction while
beaming up to the USS Enterprise from
the planet Halkan, CAPT Kirk, Dr. McCoy, LT Uhura, and LCDR Scott find
themselves on the ISS Enterprise of
the Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe.
2268
ST:TOS
s03e09 “The Tholian Web”
(features the disappearance of USS Defiant, NCC-1764 from a phasic anomaly
near Tholian space; CAPT Kirk is caught in between phases; the Enterprise is
nearly caught in a Tholian energy web waiting to rescue him)
2277
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - “The Black Flag”
(ADM Spock’s agent T’Prynn, Taurus
Reach, COMO Diego Reyes, Imperial Starbase 47, and the Shedai Wanderer)
2267-2295
ST MU: The Sorrows of Empire
(the story of mirror Spock’s overthrow
of Terran emperor James T. Kirk by murdering him, his subsequent reign during
which he attempted to institute the principles of the Prime Universe’s UFP; his
downfall; the conquest of the empire by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance)
2324
Star Trek: Section 31
(most of the action takes place in the
early 24th century Prime Universe, but there are several flashbacks to Georgiou’s
early life in the Mirror Universe; the antagonist of the story is, in fact,
from Georgiou’s early life who has also crossed over)
2333
ST STA: Three
(identical twins Gerda and Idun Asmund,
human orphans raised as warriors on Qo’Nos, serve as helms officer and
navigator aboard the Stargazer; a
transporter accident results in an inhabitant of the Mirror Universe on the pad
who identifies herself as Gerda Idun Asmund; action in both universes)
2340
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - The Traitor
(back in the Mirror Universe, Gerda
Idun Asmund is helmsman of the Terran Rebellion ship captained by mirror
Guinan; Luc Picard saves an away team from a Klingon ambush)
2347-2348; 2372
ST MU: Obsidian Alliances - Cutting Ties
(M'k'nzy of Calhoun, former slave of
the Terran Empire, is now a slave in the mines of Remus until bought by Rojan,
a Romulan business magnate, with whose half-Vulcan daughter, Soleta, he becomes
involved)
2370
ST:DS9
s02e23 “Crossover”
(Major Kira and Dr. Bashir accidentally
cross over to the Mirror Universe while
passing through the wormhole, finding Mirror Kira Nerys as the Intendent of
Terok Nor for the Klingon-Cardassian-Bajoran Alliance, Mirror Ben Sisko as her
chief henchmen, and ‘Smiley’ (Mirror Miles O’Brien) as her fix-it man)
2371
ST:DS9
s03e19 “Through the Looking Glass”
(Smiley crosses over to the Prime
Universe and kidnaps CMDR Sisko to the Mirror Universe to convince Dr. Jennifer
Sisko to stop working for the Alliance and, hopefully, join the Terran Rebellion)
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - “The Sacred Chalice”
(title refers to a brothel on mirror
Betazed run by Lwaxana Troi and her daughter Deanna, also features mirror
versions of Luc Picard, Kestra Troi, and Lursa and B’Etor, daughters of Duras)
ST MU: Glass Empires -
The Worst of Both Worlds
(Luc Picard agrees to take an aging
mirror Noonien Soong to a planet to become a human-machine hybrid, only to
discover mirror Borg)
ST MU: Obsidian Alliances - The Mirror-Scaled Serpent
(Chakotay commands a ship in the Terran
Rebellion which encounters two people thrown into the Alpha Quadrant from the
Delta Quadrant; also features mirrors of Neelix, Kes, B’Elanna, Tom Paris,
Tuvok, Spock, Kathryn Janeway, Lewis Zimmerman, and others)
2372
ST MU: Shards and Shadows – “Bitter Fruit”
(Tuvok and Kes try to assassinate
B’Elanna after she discovers the power of telepathy)
ST MU: Shard and Shadows – “Homecoming”
(features M'k'n'zy of Calhoun and
mirror versions of Edward Jellico, Kalinda Si Qwan, Robin Lefler, Soleta, Mark
Henry, and others)
ST:DS9
s04e20 “Shattered Mirror”
(Dr. Jennifer Sisko crosses over to the
Prime Universe to meet Jake, then lure him to the Mirror Universe, knowing CMDR
Sisko will follow, because the Alliance needs his help to finish their Defiant)
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - “Family Matters”
(features mirror Klag, son of M’Raq,
with mirror versions of Corat Dumar, Drex son of Martok, Worf son of Mogh,
Skrain Dukat, and others)
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - “Homecoming”
(features M'k'n'zy of Calhoun and
mirror versions of Edward Jellico, Kalinda Si Qwan, Robin Lefler, Soleta, Mark
Henry, and others)
2374
ST:DS9
s06e08 “Resurrection”
(in this one, all action takes place in
the Prime Universe, after Mirror Bareil Antos crosses over to steal an object
to take back to the Mirror Universe on behalf of Intendent Kira, who has also
crossed over)
2375
ST:DS9 s07e12 “The Emperor’s New Cloak”
ST MU: Obsidian Alliances – Saturn’s Children
(former Intendent Kira is now a slave
to Martok, who has taken Worf’s former position and made Ro the new intendent,
and the Terran Alliance has installed a Romulan cloak on the Defiant; starts after ST:DS9 “The
Emperor’s New Cloak” and ends about here)
ST MU: Shards and Shadows – “A Terrible Beauty”
(Keiko Ishikawa's life from working in
the Alliance mines to escaping to Terok Nor and meeting Miles O'Brien)
2376
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - “Empathy”
(Terran Rebellion ship Deanna CO William T. Riker, mirror
versions of Tuvok, Christine Vale, and others)
ST MU: Shards and Shadows - “For Want of a Nail”
(features mirror Reginald Barclay,
Duras, Gowron, K’Ehleyr, and Alynna Nechayev)
2377
ST DS9: Warpath, by David Mack
(in the aftermath of Taran’atar’s
attack on Kira and Ro, Elias Vaughn and the USS Defiant chase him into the Gamma Quadrant and discover that his
motives are more complex than apparent)
ST DS9: Fearful Symmetry, by Olivia Woods
(while other events are included, the
main storyline focuses on Prime Kira Nerys, Mirror Intendent Kira Nerys, Prime
Iliana Ghemor who thinks she is the real Prime Kira Nerys, and the Mirror
Iliana Ghemor who is still sane)
ST DS9: The Soul Key, by Olivia Woods
(the storyline begun in the Worlds of
Deep Space Nine novellas “Bajor: Fragments and Omens” and “The Dominion:
Olympus Descending” and continuing thru Warpath
and Fearful Symmetry finally comes to
a head through direct intervention of the Prophets)
2377-2381
ST MU: Rise Like Lions
(centers on Terok Nor and mirror Bajor,
with mirror versions of Miles O’Brien, Iliana Ghemor, Ezri Tigan, Leeta, many
others; tells the story of mirror Miles O’Brien leading the Terran Rebellion to
victory over the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance in 2379; the victors choosing not
to restore the Terran Empire but to establish the Galactic Commonwealth,
headquartered on the planet Deneva*; Smiley’s retirement to Earth with Keiko
Ishikawa)
2385
ST:PRO
s02e19 “Cracked Mirror”
(the reunion of the USS Prodigy with USS Voyager results in both ships ending up in the Mirror Universe, in
which the Terran Rebellion has defeated the Alliance and restored the Terran
Empire*)
2386
ST S31: Disavowed
(Section 31 tasks Dr. Julian Bashir and Sarina Douglas of Starfleet Intelligence with preventing the Breen from getting a new weapon from the Mirror Universe)
* Clearly a
major discontinuity issue, but see my comments above.