#Star Trek The Next Generation Mirror Broken

[staringdownabarrel]

hey, where do I start with star trek?

It really depends on whether you want to watch all of it or if you're mostly hoping to do a bare bones viewing of the older shows before you see the shows currently in production. There's a lot of viewing guides out there if you want to do a completionist viewing, so I'm going to answer this with the assumption you want to do the latter.

Before I begin, I'm not really sure if there's such a thing as a non-contentious version of this list, so keep in mind there's going to be different people with different opinions and some are going to take some pretty big issues with this one.

The Original Series: The Cage, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Mudd's Women, Balance of Terror, Arena, The Menagerie Pts. I and II, Errand of Mercy, Amok Time, Mirror Mirror, I Mudd, The Trouble With Tribbles, Journey to Babel, The Enterprise Incident, Spock's Brain

The Animated Series: Honestly, I'm probably going to get some flack for this one, but you can safely skip it entirely

The Next Generation (the best series): Encounter At Farpoint, The Battle, Hide and Q, Datalore, Skin of Evil, Conspiracy, The Neutral Zone, Elementary Dear Data, The Measure of a Man (I have issues with this episode but it is very popular regardless), Q Who, The Emissary, Peak Performance, Who Watches the Watchers, Yesterday's Enterprise, The Offspring, Sins of the Father, Tin Man, Transfigurations, The Best of Both Worlds Pts. I and II, Family, Brothers, Reunion, The Drumhead, The Mind's Eye, Redemption Pts. I and II, Ensign Ro, Reunification Pts. I and II, I Borg, Chain of Command Pts. I and II, Tapestry, Birthright Pts. I and II, Rightful Heir, Descent Pts. I and II, The Pegasus, All Good Things

Deep Space Nine: Honestly, just watch the entire thing. A lot of the episodes, even the earlier ones, end up tying into ongoing arcs in this show. If you want just one episode to sell you on it, go see Duet or the Past Tense two parter.

Voyager: Caretaker, Jetrel, Threshold (c'mon, it's one of the holidays), Death Wish, Tuvix (notoriously one of the most contentious episodes of any Star Trek show ever made), The Q and the Grey, Worst Case Scenario, Scorpion Pts. I and II, The Gift, Year of Hell Pts I and II, Message In A Bottle, The Killing Game Pts. I and II, Living Witness, Drone, Equinox Pts. I and II, Q2, Author Author (aka what TNG's The Measure of a Man could have been like if it was good), Endgame.

Enterprise: Broken Bow, The Andorian Incident, Shadows of P'Jem, Shockwave Pts. I and II, Carbon Creek, Minefield, Cease Fire, The Expanse, all of season three because it's a season long arc and honestly one of the better seasons, Storm Front Pts. I and II, Borderland, Cold Station 12, The Augments, Babel One, United, The Aenar, Affliction, Divergence, In A Mirror Darkly Pts. I and II, Demons, Terra Prime, These Are the Voyages (also a contentious episode)

[oldschoolfic-ds9]

Sanctimonious Wishes

by BGM, 1995

Data decides to leave Starfleet and is on DS9 during a Dominion attack. The crew of the Enterprise-D and Deep Space 9 then find themselves tangled in an intricate web of deception, involving alternate universes, realities, and personalities.

Words: 19436, Chapters: 6/6, Language: English

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: rape

Characters: Data, mirror!Kira Nerys (Intendant), Elim Garak, mirror!Garak, mirror!Bashir, Kira Nerys, mirror!Lore, mirror DS9 crew

Relationships: mirror!Kira/Data, Garak/mirror!Bashir, mirror!Garak/Kira,

Reader suggested tags (what are these?): mirror universe, crossover - Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Good night everyone tomorrow is New One Piece Chapter,SpyXFamily,Me And Roboco,Akane Banashi,Family Guy Halloween Special,and Linkara Reviews Star Trek Next Generation Mirror Broken :D

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In the summer of 1990 - heading southbound on the PR-52 highway, the neon-green blur of sunlit rainforest is an unfocused temporal distortion relayed through the rear-left passenger window of a Jeep Cherokee. South of La Cordillera Central, neon slowly gives way to olive greens, beige, and sunset orange.

On-site by the shore, the old sun-bleached Cherokee is an animal perfectly camouflaged against the semi-arid landscape of the island's southern coastal plain. A row of small cabins line the beach. Each with its own broken tile mosaic table in front. The outboard motor shack lies under a palm tree, and a yellow barnacle-covered dock after it.

The speargun is more of a toy than a tool. It only has one rubber band, and it fires too slowly to catch anything, but you always carry it anyways. You wouldn't want to catch anything with it though; the blood of speared fish draws sharks - and you never got over your first encounter. Better to dive for conch anyways; their shells are your trophies.

The shark startled you out of the corner of your left eye last summer. It was barely bigger than you; its back was grayish-blue, its belly milky white, and its eyes were as black as outer space. It was one with the sea, perfect and beautiful. You panicked out of the water and smashed your right knee against the port-side edge of la yola. Dad wouldn't stop laughing at you.

At night, the sound of the week's Spanish-dubbed episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation plays in the background. You walk outside. The water is a calm black-lacquered mirror reflecting the stars.

You wonder if all frontiers are one and the same.

[dicktripwire]

Wallpapers from Star Trek Mirror Broken #5

[maxwellthebored]

Ok Mirror Broken looks cool af, but Picard with a beard looks so wrong to me I can’t stand it.

[loganpine]

So long as we are talking about Inquisitors here, let us not sleep on Mirror Mommy!

[quasi-normalcy]

You know, I can’t help but notice, in view of the present cultural context, that suddenly there are a whole lot of Star Trek stories about the Mirror Universe.

Coincidence, I’m sure

[thegaminggang]

IDW Publishing Comics for May 17th, 2017

This week IDW offers a lot to choose from including the premiere issue of Star Trek The Next Generation: Mirror Broken, the one shot The X-Files Funko Universe, and conclusion of Animal Noir.

[trashyunicorn]

How cool is that Data is not so good anymore and also pink?! 🙏🏻💓

This is a cover from a comic book:

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Mirror Broken

Writers: Scott Tipton, David Tipton

Artist: J.K. Woodward

Cover artist: Joe Corroney

[flaetsbnort]

Desencalendo 12/30: Star Trek - The Next Generation - Mirror Broken

Gosto do conceito de ser uma HQ centrada na Enterprise do universo sexy malvado de Jornada nas Estrelas. Achei bem desenvolvido, e esse primeiro volume apresenta o conceito sem arrastar as ideias. Ponto especial para a arte de J. K. Woodward. Geralmente as HQs da IDW têm uma arte super-realista e sem alma, mas aqui Woodward dá uma textura de pintura a elas que quase faz parecer uma escolha artística.

[theodorebasmanov]

I’ve rewatched “Clues” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 14). It’s a very interesting episode and shows some good mind games. The ship accidentally goes through an unstable wormhole and the whole ship except for Data seems to have lost thirty seconds. Or have they? (Spoilers!) Something strange seems to start happening: doctor Crusher’s experimental moss (or something like that) grew unusually, Data behaves weirdly, Worf’s wrist was broken and healed even though nobody remembers, and Deanna seems to have some kind of Capgras syndrome – she’s very anxious and hallucinating that it’s not herself in the mirror – she sees a doppelganger. (Real Spoilers!) After some investigations, diagnostics and interrogating Data, the crew finds out that it was not a wormhole – they’ve encountered a planet of aliens, who want to be alone and undiscovered by other races, so, they made this wormhole illusion, but it didn’t affect Data, so they decided to destroy the ship, but then Captain started negotiations and the aliens agreed to erase everybody’s memories, but it took a day of real-time, so all the pieces of evidence remained. Deanna felt bad because the aliens communicated with the crew through her. After the investigation moved so much forward, the aliens started communicating again and wanted to destroy the ship again, but then Picard offers them to erase both the shreds of evidence and the memories and try again. It worked, the ship went away safely, the mystery of those aliens lived only in Data’s mind.

[oldschoolfic-ds9]

Thine Own Self

by Ainzfern, unknown year

Lieutenant Commander Data undertakes a dangerous mission to the Mirror Universe. While there, he becomes the personal property of Gul Garak. BGM has done a stunning illustration for this story, and I thank her humbly from the bottom of my heart!! To see it, click right here.

Words: 12130, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: none listed

Characters: mirror!Elim Garak, Data

Relationships: mirror!Garak/Data

Reader suggested tags (what are these?): Mirror Universe Fuh-Q Fest, mirror universe, crossover - Star Trek: The Next Generation, illustrated

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[cheese0spider]

Good night everyone tomorrow is New One Piece Chapter,Me And Roboco,Akane Banashi,Solar Opposites Halloween Speical,and Linkara Reviews Star Trek Next Generation Mirror Broken :D

[chnqin]

Ok, so I’m sure this has been done 100 times before, but my main is ostensibly a Star Trek blog so I am contractually obliged to do this.

STAR TREK AU!

WELCOME to the USS Shuoyue, a research and exploritative constitution-class starship captained by the young but promising Lan Xichen and his crew:

Captain Lan Xichen - Captain

Commander Lan Wangji - First Officer

Lieutenant Commander Wei Wuxian - Head of engineering

Lieutenant Commander Wen Qing - Chief Medical Officer

Lieutenant Commander Meng Yao - Quartermaster and second officer

Commander Nie Mingjue - Chief Security/tactical officer and third officer

Lieutenant Jiang Yanli - Head of Communications

Lieutenant Jiang Cheng - Chief Conn Officer (navigator & helmsman)

Lieutenant Nie Huaisang - Tactical & Operations officer

Lieutenant Luo Qingyang - Comms officer, works closely with Nie Mingjue in security and tactics

Lieutenant junior grade Wen Ning - Science officer, specialising in botanical pathology and exobotany

Jin Zixuan - a diplomat, like his father

Character backgrounds

Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen are half Vulcan (I know, I know, I am literally making Lan Wangji Spock but also tell me that he isn’t, you can’t. Also Lans and Vulcans share a lot of similarities), with a human mother and Vulcan father. Their parents are both dead now, but their uncle - a high ranking member of the Vulcan High Council - was not happy about them joining Starfleet. Both were raised on Vulcan. Although Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen’s appearance is similar on an aesthetic level (looking primarily Vulcan), Lan Xichen takes more after his human mother physiologically, and is therefore able to express more emotion without being worried about being overwhelmed by those emotions. Lan Wangji, on the other hand, has a more Vulcan genetic makeup and therefore has to more carefully control his emotions, which are strong and volatile under the surface. Freaky Lan arm strength is here being translated into superior Vulcan strength. The only person who can regularly spar with Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji is Nie Mingjue (although Wei Wuxian when he joins the ship can give them a run for their money).

Wei Wuxian’s father was human, but his mother was half Betazoid half Bajoran, so he has a very unusual mix, and doesn’t really feel like he quite fits in anywhere (I struggled to decide between making him half Betazoid or half Bajoran - the latter has the tragic backstory and the former has maybe a bit more of the personality, and the telepathic powers sort of mirror aspects of his demonic cultivation - so I made him both because it’s my universe and I can). His parents were killed in a freak space accident, and bby Wei Ying was left at a space port, where he lived by sneaking around and stealing things for a few years. The Jiang Family, like the Jins, were diplomats and were travelling through the space station one day and found him. When they found out who his parents were they decided to adopt him (in this AU I think they have a closer and less conflicted relationship than in canon.) Though he grew up on earth, Wei Wuxian’s most dominant genes are his betazoid ones (he has the cute Bajoran nose ridge though), and he struggles with the psionic abilities which are inherent to that species, but can manifest themselves in odd ways in hybrids. This has caused him a lot of problems, and his telepathic abilities had him accused of cheating at the academy, but that is all in the past now (or is it?).

I thought I would make the Wens Romulans, because I don’t want everyone to be human and I think it fits the sect, and also attitudes towards Romulans in general aimed at WN and WQ mirrors their persecution in canon. Wen Qing is actually the one who recommended Wei Wuxian as chief engineer. They studied at the academy together and she knows he’s the best at what he does. Wen Qing and Wen Ning have claimed a sort of asylum from the Federation, who still do not get on with the Romulans. Both of them are incredibly good at what they do and Starfleet is happy to have them, although they moved around a few ships before they found one which accepted them (that the Shuoyue’s Captain and XO are both Vulcans helps). The ship has orders that if they encounter Romulans WQ and WN are to be hidden for their own safety.

The Jins and Jiangs are human, and I was considering making the Nies Klingon, but I’m not 100% on that. If they are then Nie Huiasang’s mother was human, and he is viewed as extremely weak by all his relatives on his father’s side and ridiculously strong by those on his mother’s side, even though he tries to hide it.

Meng Yao’s mother was Orion, which is why everyone is a huge dick to him (Jin Guangshan continues to be as sleazy and awful as possible in every universe). Meng Yao is both quartermaster and 2nd officer because both those roles suit him perfectly. The description of a second officer: “The 2O is often the closest officer to the XO and the CO due to the three generally being the most senior officers aboard. As such, the 2O also often acts as the CO's second conscience and confidante. It is another primary duty of the Second Officer to spearhead secondary away teams. This is so that the CO can remain safe in the confines of the bridge. The 2O is the assistant chief administrative officer on the ship and frequently helps the XO act as liaison between department heads.” In this AU his acceptance into Starfleet replaced the acceptance he wanted from his father, and his talents were appreciated a lot more in Starfleet than with the Diplomatic Dicks Association (as Wei Wuxian coined the Jins). As such, he is less evil and murder-y, and more sneaky and silently ruthless to their enemies.

Nie Mingjue is the third officer, but also a commander, which seems odd, but the chief tactical officer is often combined with 3rd officer, and he prefers to stick to training the crew and ensuring the security and safe running of the ship, rather than focussing on more administrative tasks and matters of diplomacy. However, he has a lot of experience and has earned a high rank as an officer, so only Lan Xichen outranks him. He’s been asked to captain his own ship many times but doesn’t want to have to deal with the bureaucracy that goes along with it.

People say that Nie Huaisang only became a lieutenant because of his brother, but he actually does most of the tactical side of things in the background. He works closely with Jiang Yanli from the operations side of things, and with Luo Qingyang from the security side, as well as his brother, and his unofficial job is in intelligence. He often gets sent on diplomatic away missions.

Although it is unusual for the head of engineering to go on away missions, Wei Wuxian like to come along when possible - first, because it allows him to annoy Lan Wangji; secondly, because he’s a curious (“You mean nosy” “Shut up Jiang Cheng”) person and he likes to meet new civilisations; and thirdly, because things often go wrong and it has been his inventive ability which has often gotten the away team out of trouble.

Lan Xichen, Jiang Yanli, and Meng Yao are the ones sent for missions which involve diplomacy. They all have additional diplomatic training on top of their existing held ranks, and Jiang Yanli is an expert in xeno-relations.

Jiang Cheng is the helmsman and navigator, and is on the command track. One day he hopes to captain a ship of his own with his siblings next to him.

The story begins with a transfer of three new personnel to the ship

Though unusual to have a changeover involving three officers at one time, Wei Wuxian, Jiang Yanli, and Jiang Cheng are an effective team which should not be split up. They don’t have long to get used to their new ship and crew before they are given orders to transfer a team of diplomats to a new Federation planet - a team of diplomats including Jin Zixuan (the man Jiang Yanli joined Starfleet to get away from after their betrothal was broken) and Jin Guangshan (all around bastard; the man Meng Yao mosts hates in this world). As if the journey wasn’t tense enough, Jin Guangshan is promptly murdered upon arrival at the planet, and there are too many suspects to count.

These are the voyages of the Star Ship Shuoyue...

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Wallpapers from Star Trek: The Next Generation - Mirror Broken #0,1, and 2