#DS9 Shattered Mirror

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DS9 4x19 Shattered Mirror thoughts (I’m re-watching, so beware spoilers for future episodes!) [12 July ‘23]

"Enjoying the view?" "I'm stuck on this new story I'm working on, and coming here helps me focus." "No need to explain, Mister Sisko." Jake is so used to being told off by you, Odo! Aww, but I love how it shows how he's growing up, and other characters see that. :3

"I never chased you away. I chased Nog." So prejudicial, Odo! Jake wasn't exactly a goody-two-shoes

Quark eavesdropping on the conversation and feeling the need to interrupt XD

"Poor kid. I suppose that's what you get for having friends." I shake my head at you, Quark.

The pain in Jake's face upon seeing Jennifer! He's such a good actor.

"You even sound like my mother!" He's so delighted! My heart! 💔

"Maybe the three of us can have dinner together." The SUBTERFUGE, Jennifer!

But the way Sisko just left Jake with her? He can't not trust her, even though she's not his Jennifer.

Kira volunteering to go with him :3 Love herrr

Oh! They didn't get through!

"She likes you." You like Kasidy, Jake! Have you forgotten about how happy your dad is with her?! (Aw bless you really, I'm sure this is super difficult.)

"Bow before the regent!" "I can't think of anything I'd rather do." This Garak has the exact same sarcasm as ours XD

"Believe me, my Regent, it will take the blood of many rebels to quench the thirst of my revenge." "Spoken like a Klingon." "I'm trying." It's strange hearing Garak be forthright!

Mirror!Julian is the weirdest. He's so different.

"If this is supposed to teach me a lesson you might want to turn that little toy of yours to a higher setting." There is definitely a good amount of our Kira in mirror!Kira

Why hasn't Sisko told Jake the truth about what's going on here? Jake would hate to know he's hurting his father by fawning over Jennifer like this.

"What a perverse idea!" Ah yes, you've got her - mirror!Kira will definitely help you, she loves this sort of game.

Garak being accused of stealing the key and then - "The key, sir. Somehow it fell into my boot." - Oh my goodness, that's so tonally different?! Funny, but unexpected -- wild 😂

"So, if it's all right with you, I will see to it that he is sent back to Deep Space Nine." But I know what happens, I'm sure he doesn't get there...

I was expecting Nog to be the informant, somehow

Sisko going to leave, and then stopping and rolling his eyes. He's in far too deep now to turn his back on them.

Killing Jennifer - that was so unnecessary! The Intendant even just left Jake there rather than kidnapping him to ensure her safety?

"We've won!" "You sound surprised." Love how Sisko is always so cool.

Mirror!Worf saying "Make it so" is so weird, right?

Oh, it's not fair Sisko has to watch her die twice, and it's also not fair she had to die in this universe just to make Jake and Ben sad. Gahhh!

[bagheerita]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Shattered Mirror"

[dig-jules]

deep space nine is sooo unserious

[daezedglownut]

Losing my shit at collared and leashed Mirror!Garak 💀

Feels like all my christmases have come at once lmaooo

[hawkp]

EVERYONE IN THE MIRRORVERSE IS SO GAYYYY

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

It's always "the mirror universe is war torn and dystopian" and never "how was the weird gay bondage vibes? The weird gay bondage vibes looked like fun"

[isthereintruthnobeauty1968]

i'd really like to see a little more of nerys hanging out with the siskos :( there's obviously a lot of contrast between her and ben as people right from the start but the darkness and the light & ties of blood and water both going Hey ‼️ Nearly All Of Kira's Family Died Violently And It Continues To Happen To People She Came To Consider Family Recently while they're Characterized as a tight-knit loving family and Right There AND it was recently made a point of in starship down of kira & sisko making an effort to be friends outside of work. please can something nice happen to her for once

[topshelf2112-blog]

I’ve got to rescue MirrorGarak. Julian can have two.

[all-the-fun-of-the-cirkus]

every episode of a show with the concept "all the main characters are evil" should be a slam dunk banger, and yet ds9, which is otherwise a very good show, keeps fucking it up

[cellularennui]

Sisko the Engineer

DS9 s04e20 - Shattered Mirror

[lostyesterday]

I made the following graph because I was interested in which words show up most often in the titles of Star Trek episodes and movies:

I included episode titles from all twelve canon TV shows and all thirteen movies. I only counted nouns for the graph to avoid including boring words like “the” or “and”. I also counted plurals of a word as the same word (“stars” counts as “star”) and compound words where the singular word still carried the same meaning (“starship” counts as “star”). A complete list of episode/movie titles for each word listed in the graph is below the cut.

Time:

Amok Time (TOS)

The Time Trap (TAS)

The Naked Time (TNG)

Time Squared (TNG)

A Matter of Time (TNG)

Time’s Arrow (TNG)

Timescape (TNG)

Hard Time (DS9)

Children of Time (DS9)

A Time to Stand (DS9)

Time’s Orphan (DS9)

Time and Again (VOY)

Once Upon a Time (VOY)

Timeless (VOY)

Time Amok (PRO)

The Time Devouring Scavengers (PRO)

Star

Beyond the Furthest Star (TAS)

Starship Mine (TNG)

Starship Down (DS9)

Far Beyond the Stars (DS9)

North Star (ENT)

Battle at the Binary Stars (DIS)

The Brightest Star (Short Treks)

The Girl Who Made the Stars (Short Treks)

The Star Gazer (PIC)

The Stars at Night (Lower Decks)

Starstruck (PRO)

A Moral Star (PRO)

Man

The Man Trap (TOS)

Where No Man Has Gone Before (TOS)

The Schizoid Man (TNG)

The Measure of a Man (TNG)

Manhunt (TNG)

Tin Man (TNG)

Man of the People (TNG)

A Man Alone (DS9)

Our Man Bashir (DS9)

Inside Man (VOY)

Renaissance Man (VOY)

Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (DIS)

Home

The Voyage Home (movie)

Home Soil (TNG)

Homeward (TNG)

Move Along Home (DS9)

The Homecoming (DS9)

Homefront (DS9)

Homestead (VOY)

Home (ENT)

Far From Home (DIS)

Coming Home (DIS)

Child

Friday’s Child (TOS)

And the Children Shall Lead (TOS)

Plato’s Stepchildren (TOS)

The Child (TNG)

Galaxy’s Child (TNG)

Children of Time (DS9)

Child’s Play (VOY)

Children of the Comet (SNW)

Children of Mars (Short Treks)

Life

Half a Life (TNG)

The Quality of Life (TNG)

Life Support (DS9)

Lifesigns (VOY)

Real Life (VOY)

Life Line (VOY)

Life, Itself (DIS)

Eye

Wink of an Eye (TOS)

The Eye of the Beholder (TAS)

The Mind’s Eye (TNG)

Eye of the Beholder (TNG)

Eye of the Needle (VOY)

Blink of an Eye (VOY)

Kayshon, His Eyes Open (Lower Decks)

Light

The Lights of Zetar (TOS)

The Inner Light (TNG)

The Darkness and the Light (DS9)

By Inferno’s Light (DS9)

In the Pale Moonlight (DS9)

Point of Light (DIS)

Light and Shadows (DIS)

War

A Private Little War (TOS)

The Dogs of War (DS9)

Warlord (VOY)

Warhead (VOY)

The War Within, the War Without (DIS)

Under the Cloak of War (SNW)

Night

Night Terrors (TNG)

Wrongs Darker than Death or Night (DS9)

Night (VOY)

Two Days and Two Nights (ENT)

A Night in Sickbay (ENT)

The Stars at Night (Lower Decks)

Game

The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

The Game (TNG)

Armageddon Game (DS9)

The Killing Game (VOY)

Endgame (VOY)

The Least Dangerous Game (Lower Decks)

Shadow

Shadowplay (DS9)

In Purgatory’s Shadow (DS9)

Shadows and Symbols (DS9)

Shadows of P’Jem (ENT)

Light and Shadows (DIS)

Through the Valley of Shadows (DIS)

Mirror

Mirror Mirror (TOS)

Shattered Mirror (DS9)

In the Mirror, Darkly (ENT)

Mirrors (DIS)

The Mirror Universe (PRO)

Enemy

The Enemy Within (TOS)

The Enemy (TNG)

Face of the Enemy (TNG)

Silent Enemy (ENT)

Behind Enemy Lines (PRO)

Battle

Let that Be Your Last Battlefield (TOS)

The Battle (TNG)

Battle Lines (DS9)

Nor the Battle to the Strong (DS9)

Battle at the Binary Stars (DIS)

Mind

Dagger of the Mind (TOS)

The Mind’s Eye (TNG)

Frame of Mind (TNG)

Mining the Mind’s Mines (Lower Decks)

Mindwalk (PRO)

Blood

Bloodlines (TNG)

Blood Oath (DS9)

Ties of Blood and Water (DS9)

Blood Fever (VOY)

Flesh and Blood (VOY)

World

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (TOS)

The Best of Both Worlds (TNG)

Strange New World (ENT)

All the World’s a Stage (PRO)

Strange New Worlds (SNW)

Ship

Ship in a Bottle (TNG)

Starship Mine (TNG)

Starship Down (DS9)

The Ship (DS9)

One Little Ship (DS9)

Day

Day of the Dove (TOS)

Data’s Day (TNG)

Day of Honor (VOY)

Thirty Days (VOY)

Two Days and Two Nights (ENT)

[pon-farr-night]

I forgot so much crazy shit happened in the DS9 mirrorverse... All of Shattered Mirror is making me go HELLO????

[starplusfourletters]

orville "the road not taken" be like "mom can we have yesterday's enterprise and timeless and tapestry but also the ds9 mirror universe costume department and a side of firefly vibes and also doctor who's cybermen and some miscellaneous star wars and interstellar and a dash of shattered and also thirty days while still being fundamentally galaxy quest"

like at what point do you steal from enough things that it does actually become its own thing

"the fate of the galaxy rests on your messy divorce" yes please

[boreal-sea]

S4E20 "Shattered Mirror"

Sisko has been lured to the mirror universe, where he is piloting that universe's version of the Defiant to defend DS9.

Sisko: "Pattern Delta!" Miles "Smiley" O'Brien: "Pattern what??" Sisko: "Hard to port, hard to starboard!" Smiley: "I'll have to remember that one..."

[A few minutes later, facing down a Klingon Bird of Prey]

Smiley: "Do we run!?" Sisko: "Damn right we run - right at it!" Smiley: "Aah, pattern suicide."

[thegeminisage]

star trek update time. last night we did ds9's "hard time" and "shattered mirror," which, WOW

hard time:

so i knew going in this was going to be an obrien suffering episode but i did NOT expect it to escalate to an ONSCREEN SUICIDE ATTEMPT. JESUS CHRIST

first of all, even real prison would have been less evil than fake prison. argrathans are VILE

kira was so niceys to him when he woke up :( even though you could tell she was super uncomfortable

i read that this episode was originally supposed to be about that lower decks bajoran girl...i'm kind of glad it didn't happen to her, tbh, but also, what did happen to her was still so fucking horrible

episodes that make a great case for why julian bashir can and should join the obriens marriage. he can still see garak on the side!!

i mean was this not julian and miles: the episode?

it was just SO good. everyone trying really hard to help and no one being able to help because obrien is LYING ABOUT IT AND GOD. THEY WASTED THIS GUY ON TNG! FIVE YEARS ON TNG AND THEY GAVE HIM ONE GOOD EPISODE! ONE!!!!!!! HE STOOD AROUND AT THE TRANSPORTER DOING JACK SHIT AND FOR WHAT

i actually thought for a second at the end when they were starving in prison he was gonna eat that guys. tarsus iv blinders. actually what happened was kind of worse

suicide scene. what can i even say except bashir is the most gentle man and good person. and god obrien fucking CARRIED it. five years on tng and i didn't know he could do that except for one fucking scene which was also about the cardassian war

bashir assuring keiko obrien always bounces back and then he almost KILLS HIMSELF.

AND THE THING IS YOU GET IT! he was really scary when he killed his cellmate! he was scary when he hurt quark and almost hit molly! you can see why he would be frightened of himself! it's that moment of absolute rage and then it's over and that guy is dead on the ground and you can't undo it. even though he wasn't REAL and then julian talks him down ANYWAY god i'm actually not even making any coherent sense bc it was just That good. god. GOD.

shattered mirror:

mixed feelings about this one, but mostly positive

i really Don't like how easy it is for characters to hop back and forth between our verse and the mirrorverse. ds9's mirrorverse already takes SO much mystery out of the original, which i could except, but having jake's not-mom and sisko's not-wife pop over for a visit for nooo reason is like. too much really. it should be harder. seeing her should be a bigger deal

about five second after the words "this should be a bigger deal" left my mouth it started being a bigger deal and i immediately took it back lol bc im weak but ultimately thats the kind of writing i'd wanna see for mirror jennifer

i think her using her knowledge of their grief against them WAS fun and evil actually even if it was also evil to me. and jake was already lonely because nog was gone too GOD. hey, also, speaking of nog, why was quark all "oh jake comes down here and pines for nog like every day" like are they boyfriends?? young love? whats going on ds9

speaking of gay people, um. worf and garak. the. the bondage collar. the way we both at the exact same moment had the exact same thought, which was: slave bikini leia. whatever they had going on in this episode was so homoerotic there was even penetration (with a knife).

one thing mirrorverse will do is kill people. odo, quark, rom, and now nog and jennifer. i called both their deaths before it happened but jennifer dying was still SOOOOO. god. at least this time they got to say goodbye?

SO thrilled to see mirror kira again, ik nana visitor was against the evil lesbian stereotype but what if i did wanna see her just lez out now and again? it's pride month i have rights

theme of the evening: mood whiplash. we went from obriens suicide attempt to fun edgy horny mirrorverse worf and garak bondage to sisko and jake's shared grief over jenifer to mirror kira doing ✌👅 at the camera every chance she got. my head was spinning by the end of the night. good for them though

TONIGHT: ds9's "the muse" and voy's "the thaw"

[uss-exile-ncc-440548]

AO3 Masterlist

Commander's AO3 and Star Trek works-

AO3: dhiamn_aehallh

Note: Commander's work is open for public consumption.

The "Very Soong" series: All set in an alternative timeline overseen by an increasingly confused and distressed Q.

Side note: The works of this series can either be read together (once finished) or individually.

mu-yor t' Tevanu - Soval. Forrest. Rogue Vulcan katras on Halloween. Need I say more? - Rating: M - Status: Complete Kunil-talshanar - Max is enjoying Christmas time with Soval up until the point his family enters the picture. Takes place about a year after "mu-yor t'Tevanu" and "Winter Green," the second of which is found in "Small Tales," but neither are necessary to read for this one. - Rating: M - Status: Complete Viridian Tears - ENT storyline, follows Soval mostly. - Rating: M - Status: Active Shattered Reflections - Mirror verse storylines beginning with Akhiy. (Mirror Soval.) - Rating: TBA - Status: SOON Grounded - Follow Che'srik Tal who isn't sure why he's here but he's going to ground someone for it. Other Romulans of the era featured. Takes place around the time of the Romulan War. - Rating: TBA - Status: Pending Ek'wak-yai - A re-telling of Spock and Bones' adventures through life as they fit within the "Very Soong" series. Will include spoilers for some of their parts in said series. Half-Romulan Leonard H. McCoy takes the spot of CMO aboard the USS Enterprise. Slowly the crew begins to learn of his secret and just what it means for them and the Federation. Events leading up to TNG/Two Soong. - Rating: M - Status: Active Two Soong - A re-telling of TNG if Starfleet had found and took in both Data and Lore. Lore may still be a problem, but he's a Starfleet problem… Which might just be the galaxy's problem. Main work. Will branch into DS9 eventually. Side-note: There are two versions, it is currently being rewritten and updated. Original version here. - Rating: M - Status: Rewrite active Welcome to Risa - Follow "Tanvir" and his crew as they get into mischief. Runs alongside Two Soong. - Rating: M - Status: Paused East Wind - DS9 storyline following Sisko and Vreenak. Pre-Guide of Exiles. - Rating: M - Status: Active One Soong - Set during Picard, follows Noonien Soong. - Rating: TBA - Status: Pending Guide of Exiles - Follows Vreenak post Dominion War, may wrap into Kelvin storyline. - Rating: TBA - Status: Pending Guide of Exiles: Part 2 - Follows Letant post Guide of Exiles. Working title. - Rating: TBA - Status: Pending Small Tales - Small one offs that belong to the series. - Rating: M - Status: Active. Requests open

The "Ni'Var" series

Eye of the Storm - T'Lar approaches Sarek after the fal-tor-pan, both of them are concerned for Doctor McCoy's inner state and decide to do something about it. - Rating: M - Status: Complete Lost at Sea - A series of scenes that take place throughout TOS. - Rating: M - Status: Semi-active

Others

Pagh'tem'far - The Prophets decide they're going to mess with one cranky Bajoran's day, but Solbor isn't having it. - Rating: M - Status: Scrapped Keeping Up With The Cardassians - Follow Gul Kyle and you'll get lost. Will eventually include a homemade recipe for Yamok sauce. Pure drivel. - Rating: M - Status: Swimming in Yamok sauce

The Major's AO3 and Star Trek works-

Note: The Major's AO3 is restricted

AO3: StagofRomulus

Quotev: StagofRomulus

The "Mahhoi'eri Temtactau" series. Another take on the "Half-Romulan McCoy" AU. Known as "T'Anahos i-Rateg tr'Duvek", an ex-Tal'Shiar Major with a lot of sorrows. Will also follow his Mirror counterpart known as "Hakar". May delve into the Kelvinverse and STO's storyline later.

Side note: These can be read individually or together (once finished).

Hfihar Duvek (AO3, Quotev)- In which David McCoy, here known as Pangaere i-Rateg tr’Duvek, finds Eleanora after her ship, the USS Gryphon is left drifting through the Romulan Neutral Zone. An accidental violation. Allowing the crew to be spared so long as they behave… And giving Commander Pangaere ample time to know the Chief Engineer, Eleanora. Or would have. Unfortunately, the crew is not big on trusting Romulans. (2221) - Rating: M - Status: Complete Emael ih'kheid Stelai - Follows T'Anahos, Oallae, and Havraha as they wander UFP territory and their encounters with Pike's Enterprise. (SNW) - Rating: TBA - Status: Pending Ahr'ehraet Hru'dheno (AO3, Quotev) - T’Anahos i-Rateg tr’Duvek has served 6 years under Pike. Now chief of security, he finds himself uncertain about the upcoming changes. A new captain, a mostly new crew... What situations will the universe have in store for them? He’s faced hardship before, especially from UFP space, he shall face whatever comes again. This time with old crewmates he’s come to regard as friends.Perhaps things shan’t be too bad after all. (TOS) - Rating: M - Status: Active

Translations of titles-

Ek'wak-yai - Vulcan for "Eternal flame"

mu-your t' Tevanu - Vulcan for "Night of the Dead"

kunil-talshanar - Vulcan for "Happy holidays.

Pagh'Tem'Far - Bajoran. A sacred vision given by the Prophets

Mahhoi'eri Temtactau - Romulan for "Devoted Exile". More specifically an unwilling exile

Ahr'ehraet Hru'dheno - Romulan for "The Security Chief is Tired"

Hfihar - Romulan for "House" as in "House-Clan"

Duvek - Vulcan for "shade". Used as a Romulan house-clan name in this

Eri - Romulan for "Heir"

Emael ih'kheid Stelai- Romulan for "Uncertain Stars"