Although its sophomore time of year did amuch better jobof balance self - examination with nostalgiafor Star Trek ’s past , the debut time of year of Discoverycreatively flatlinedwith itsfull - on retreatinto the Mirror Universe . Even before original series designer Bryan Fullerleft the show , there were plans to go to Trek’siconic alt - reality … but they sound so much more fascinating thanMAGA Captains .
Speaking on the four-hundredth episode of Robert Meyer Burnett ’s Robservations series , Fuller briefly touched upon his more absent approach to Star Trek that was in the works when he was first developing what would become Discovery . In fussy , he go away into a elaborated examination of how he had designate to approach our heroes inflict the crueller , harsher , yet still eerily familiar world of the Mirror Universe , in ways that felt both reflective of our current clime and honoring what made the Mirror Universe such afearsome and compellingconcept in the first blank space .
“ The thing that really fascinated me in sitting down and crafting the news report for Discovery was the human condition , ” Fuller began . “ I intend that there are elements in the Mirror Universe that we have seen that have sort of boiled to the broadest ends of the spectrum and everything felt really binary . And what I really need to do in setting out was looking at the minutiae of simple decisions that have a cascade effect on our life . So , it ’s not about golden lamé sashes and goatees versus no sash and clean - shaven . It is more about we are at forking in the road every instant of our lives and we either go leftover or right . ”
“Would you get that I’m bad if I paraphrased the president at you?”Image: CBS
For Fuller , what that meant was less a simplistic story of the Discovery crew facing off against their Terran Empire counterparts ( aswe ultimately gotin the final show ) , but instead something that feel more reflective about the aroused questions that come from being faced with a literal representation of the alternative to every moral choice they ’ve ever made .
“ It urinate me opine of Joe Menosky ’s lecture in [ theStar Trek : Voyager episode ] ‘ Latent epitome , ’ ” Fuller went on to say , drawing upon comparing to other times Star Trek has betroth with this tolerant moralistic thought experiment . “ The Doctor has a Sophie ’s Choice , he can only save one life . And he chose Ensign Harry Kim versus this other national flag and it is a split - decision , and it have his entire program to unscramble because he ca n’t handle how his option was always go to cost a life . It was his Kobayashi Maru . So , there was something in the misunderstanding made by Burnham in ‘ Battle of the Binary Stars ’ that had this ripple , but the Mirror Universe was always meant to be an geographic expedition of a small step in a different direction . ”
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Different facial hair, but very familiar personality.Image: CBS
Ultimately , unlike what we let on Discovery , this would ’ve looked quite different to what Star Trek fans might have anticipated when they were told they were catch a Mirror Universe history , akin to what we receive with sinister duplicates , fascistic imagery , and yes , even an Agony Booth or six .
“ It was n’t needs the Mirror Universe we know from all of the other serial , ” the producer take on . “ It was something that was closer to our timeline and experience , so you may still recognize the human being and go , ‘ What did I do ? How did that seem like a good conclusion for me in that moment and how do I keep with my animation forward ? ’ And everything was a variety of an extrapolation out on that . So , there were things that I wanted the Mirror Universe to operate in a narrative exploration of like ‘ Oh roll in the hay , if I just did n’t do that one affair , everything would be just , ’ as counterbalance to , ‘ I do n’t acknowledge that person , I do n’t know who that person is , because they are a polar opposite of who I am . ’ ”
But while it may not have convey the symbology and iconography of Mirror Universe trappings we ’ve get to expect , Fuller ’s mind feels right at home with what made the Mirror Universe body of work as a construct . That original episode in Star Trek is iconic for so much more than just theentire genre of facial hairit introduce into science - fiction pop culture . What made “ Mirror Mirror”such incredible televisionis not just the way our heroes viscerally reacted to the inherent alienness of their alternate ego , but what was also still so chillingly similar about these vis-a-vis too , especially Spock . The Mirror counterpart that were transported over to the prime Trek reality are so apace detained , because they ’re alarm citizenry incapable of masquerading as secure — but Mirror Spock is the real scourge , the substantial scare of it all , because he ’s fairly much just actual Benjamin Spock with his moral core invert . He ’s recognisable as person even while also being entirely unrecognisable in his ethics .
It is that kind of fear that it seems Fuller ’s version of the Mirror Universe would ’ve likewised examined . It at least say something more about those musical theme from “ Mirror , Mirror ” than having the surprise twist of the serial be that your show ’s captain is really justthe sort of guywho operate around paraphrasing Donald Trump quotes , at least .
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