• Doxin@yiffit.net
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      10 months ago

      Sexy and lesbian. “gay coded villains” are a whole thing.

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    Tbh i hate the mirror universe now… from being a not-so-serious in-joke that came back every now and then, not as much as nudging the timeline, plot or characters into any too serious a direction, to becoming an important part of cannon that I just don’t like… mostly because of Discovery and Picard.

    It’s really just too cheesy. Alternative universes, by all means, but just a mirror universe where there’s a bit of a role reversal which stems from can only be described as “a trend in the 70s”.

    Mirror this, bizarro that, cod sarn it. To call it a gimmick is a bit of an understatement. To call it cannon is a bit embarrassing.

    Now excuse me, I’ve ranted about Star Trek on the interwebz, so now I have to go fulfill the government mandated 3 hours of grass touching.

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    10 months ago

    DS9 mirror universe episodes were just the writers being down bad. But I’m here for it.

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    10 months ago

    I might be in the minority, but I hated the mirror universe episodes. Every single one of them felt like consequence free filler with bad low stakes plot points. I mean, yeah people died, but not the characters I actually cared about.

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      10 months ago

      Mirror universe, time travel and holodeck episodes, the holy trinity of filler episodes in Star Trek.

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        10 months ago

        Oh look we have all these sets and costumes from a different show next door and we’re low on budget this season. Welp looks like we’re doing a Pirate episode! The question is, time travel, Holodeck or mirror universe? 🤔

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      10 months ago

      I can count on one hand the number of mirror universe episodes I’ve enjoyed in trek. But I don’t even need that one hand to count the mirror episodes I liked in DS9…

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    10 months ago

    I’m mostly just against the holodeck episodes. Every time my wif watched ds9 with me, it ended up being a holodeck episode. She doesn’t like Star Trek.