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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Just the other day I watched a neat video by the Feral Historian in which he argued the theory that the Mirror Universe is not actually a traditional "alternate timeline" that diverged at a particular point in history and just developed differently from there. He argues that it's a more amorphous psychoactive kind of place that is "recreated" whenever visitors enter it based on those visitors themselves. I rather liked it.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

With the multiverse all things are possible. The "mirror" universe could just be whatever multiverse happens to be the antipode of the current zeitgeist. Like a sociological dipole. Therefore appearing to be "recreated" as a psycho-re-active kind of place, but also a physical reality that always existed. This could be happening often enough through various combinations that the "mirror" universe would even have a memory of previous encounters with a "prime" universe similar to, but not necessarily identical to, the prime universe we are currently watching.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Woah awesome. Watching it now and this guy could have been on Star Trek, damn! He'd fit right in.

[-] blueamigafan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I always thought he was supposed to be Felix, julians friend who wrote the holo program originally

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's a distinct possibility. Mirror!Bashir calls him Fontaine, but it could be an alias. It's also possible that Mirror!Fontaine is an android.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

The alias theory is fun. I remember some old novel that took place in the Mirror Universe having a never-Borgified Annika Hansen working as a spy, and her spy designation was "Agent Seven" just because there's a rule of cool about these things.

[-] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I always thought that Felix modeled the hologram Vic off of a friend of his named Vic Fontaine. So, in the Mirror Universe, the Vic we see is the original friend.

[-] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You mean just the actual shape, like the face for the doctor using Zimmermans? That's plausible.

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