Date: 04 Jun 2013 21:49 Title: Chapter 7
Well, it ought to be fascinating to see the mirror universe. And yeah, he has a point -- given variables, it should be impossible to have a double on the other side. But, obviously, it's not.
Author's Response:
I really wanted to address that, as ST seems to indicate that it's commonplace. And the point is, of course, it should be really, really rare, even given a seemingly infinite choice of universes.
Date: 02 Jun 2013 06:09 Title: Chapter 7
Well, it seems the new recruits and their vets are about ready to head out on a training mission. But I have to say, some of this tech doesn’t give me a very safe feeling. For instance, the time portals make we worried that if someone uses them they’ll end up in a very wrong place. Or time. Or both. Kevin doesn’t do much to make we want to hop into one of those things. I got a very McCoy vide about them … don’t trust them.
I love how all the time ships are named after time traveling things. Favorite, hands down, is the Flux Capacitor (which, as I recall, is an actual piece of Trek tech mentioned in conjunction with the transporters in TNG).
The breakfast scene and the explanation about Daniels very complicated long history was well done and paced. Bernstein is right to question all this now as opposed to later as, later, they’ll in the middle of the mission. I’m still liking the dynamics between these two. There wasn’t a whole lot said here but I just like how they read together. It worked for me and the option to visit your mirror counterpart intrigues me to no end … it’s weird thinking of a future where I can visit an alternate version of myself in another universe.
Author's Response:
I figure, eventually, the deep future means that a lot of the things that are one-time or rare in Trek suddenly become very, very commonplace. Crosses over to and from the mirror; transporting; augmentation, etc.
I never liked the time portal idea and it always seemed too pat. I like time ships because they can break and they can also carry a lot of people, plus they have weaponry, and they can take a little, well, time, to get from place to place.
The Flux Capacitor is the activator in Doc Brown's DeLorean time machine in Back to the Future. Jack Finney is the writer of Time and Again. HG Wells of course is the author of The Time Machine. Audrey Niffenegger (the original Audrey) wrote The Time Traveler's Wife.
Audrey II is an outlier, named after the man-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors.
Date: 30 May 2013 12:27 Title: Chapter 7
That's a very good point you bring up about the Mirror Universe. How do so many people in the MU have counterparts in the prime universe? I mean it should be statistically impossible!