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* OutGambitted: In ''Age of the Empress', Sato tricks Shran into an alliance by claiming the records of the future aboard the ''Defiant'' showed they would be married with a son. She smugly thinks she can use her "future knowledge" to defend her various actions and win others to her side. She's stunned when, following the marriage, Shran pulls a coup on her. Shran reveals he never believed Sato's talk in the first place and managed to decode the records to discover ''Defiant'' isn't from this universe at all. However, he does plan to use their marriage and a lab-created "son" to break Andoria away and forge its own Empire with Shran as ruler.
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* OutGambitted: In ''Age of the Empress', Empress'', Sato tricks Shran into an alliance by claiming the records of the future aboard the ''Defiant'' showed they would be married with a son. She smugly thinks she can use her "future knowledge" to defend her various actions and win others to her side. She's stunned when, following the marriage, Shran pulls a coup on her. Shran reveals he never believed Sato's talk in the first place and managed to decode the records to discover ''Defiant'' isn't from this universe at all. However, he does plan to use their marriage and a lab-created "son" to break Andoria away and forge its own Empire with Shran as ruler.
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* SequelHook: The [[spoiler: Dominion]] finds the wormhole opening in the Gamma Quadrant.
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* SequelHook: In the final scene of ''Rise Like Lions'', The [[spoiler: Dominion]] finds the wormhole opening in the Gamma Quadrant.Quadrant.
* SexSlave: In ''The Mirror-Scaled Serpent'', Thomas is B'Elanna's sex slave. The half-Terran B'Elanna was herself fathered by her mother Miral's slave.
* SexSlave: In ''The Mirror-Scaled Serpent'', Thomas is B'Elanna's sex slave. The half-Terran B'Elanna was herself fathered by her mother Miral's slave.
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* OutGambitted: Sato tricks Shran into an alliance by claiming the records of the future aboard the ''Defiant'' showed they would be married with a son. She smugly thinks she can use her "future knowledge" to defend her various actions and win others to her side. She's stunned when, following the marriage, Shran pulls a coup on her. Shran reveals he never believed Sato's talk in the first place and managed to decode the records to discover ''Defiant'' isn't from this universe at all. However, he does plan to use their marriage and a lab-created "son" to break Andoria away and forge its own Empire with Shran as ruler.
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* OrbitalBombardment: In ''Age of the Empress'', the rebel fleet bombards Earth from space, devastating many cities including Beijing, Chicago, Kyoto, Mumbai, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Stalingrad. In retaliation, the ''Defiant'' and a taskforce of Starfleet ships launch an orbital attack on the rebel stronghold Aldus Prime.
* OutGambitted: In ''Age of the Empress', Sato tricks Shran into an alliance by claiming the records of the future aboard the ''Defiant'' showed they would be married with a son. She smugly thinks she can use her "future knowledge" to defend her various actions and win others to her side. She's stunned when, following the marriage, Shran pulls a coup on her. Shran reveals he never believed Sato's talk in the first place and managed to decode the records to discover ''Defiant'' isn't from this universe at all. However, he does plan to use their marriage and a lab-created "son" to break Andoria away and forge its own Empire with Shran as ruler.
* OutGambitted: In ''Age of the Empress', Sato tricks Shran into an alliance by claiming the records of the future aboard the ''Defiant'' showed they would be married with a son. She smugly thinks she can use her "future knowledge" to defend her various actions and win others to her side. She's stunned when, following the marriage, Shran pulls a coup on her. Shran reveals he never believed Sato's talk in the first place and managed to decode the records to discover ''Defiant'' isn't from this universe at all. However, he does plan to use their marriage and a lab-created "son" to break Andoria away and forge its own Empire with Shran as ruler.
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* StarKilling: Trilithium warheads. One is used to destroy the [[spoiler: Ferenginar]] system.
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* SpacePirates: In ''The Worst of Both Worlds'', Picard knew the space pirate Black Jack Crusher, the commander of the ''Bonny Beverly'', before his death.
* StarKilling: Trilithium warheads.One In ''Rise Like Lions'', one is used to destroy the [[spoiler: Ferenginar]] system.
* StarKilling: Trilithium warheads.
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* FantasticSlurs: In ''The Worst of the Worlds'', Picard, Vash and Bagro all refer to the Cardassians as "Cardies" and "spoonheads."
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Empress Sato tries to have an offspring with Shran. Given the ''very'' different genetic structures of the parents, the baby is artificially engineered and it's not even certain if the experiment ultimately succeeds.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: In ''Age of the Empress'', Empress Sato tries to have an offspring with Shran. Given the ''very'' different genetic structures of the parents, the baby is artificially engineered and it's not even certain if the experiment ultimately succeeds.
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* IstanbulNotConstantinople: In ''Age of the Empress'', Volgograd is still known as Stalingrad in 2155.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "A Terrible Beauty" is a reference to the line "A terrible beauty is born" from the poem "Easter, 1916" by Creator/WilliamButlerYeats.
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* ImmediateSequel:
** The beginning of ''Age of the Empress'' recreates the final scene of "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II]]" and carries on directly from there.
** The first scene of ''The Sorrows of Empire'' takes place several days after "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]".
** The beginning of ''Age of the Empress'' recreates the final scene of "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II]]" and carries on directly from there.
** The first scene of ''The Sorrows of Empire'' takes place several days after "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]".
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* KlingonPromotion:
** In "The Greater Good", Kirk kills Pike using the Tantalus field in 2264 and becomes captain of the I.S.S. ''Enterprise'', as referenced in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]".
** In ''The Mirror-Scaled Serpent'', it is mentioned that Tuvok became the captain of the I.S.S. ''Excelsior'' after killing Styles, who was plotting to overthrow Emperor Spock.
** In ''Rise Like Lions'', Klag slays Martok in honorable combat in 2377 and takes his place as Regent. The following year, Klag is himself killed by Duras, who becomes the new Regent.
** In "The Greater Good", Kirk kills Pike using the Tantalus field in 2264 and becomes captain of the I.S.S. ''Enterprise'', as referenced in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]".
** In ''The Mirror-Scaled Serpent'', it is mentioned that Tuvok became the captain of the I.S.S. ''Excelsior'' after killing Styles, who was plotting to overthrow Emperor Spock.
** In ''Rise Like Lions'', Klag slays Martok in honorable combat in 2377 and takes his place as Regent. The following year, Klag is himself killed by Duras, who becomes the new Regent.
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** ''The Sorrows of Empire'': Mirror [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]]'s rising through the ranks to admiral, coup to become emperor and purposely weakening the Terran Empire so that the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance would conquer them - and be destroyed from the inside.
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** ''The Sorrows of Empire'': Mirror [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]]'s rising through the ranks to admiral, staging a coup to become emperor and purposely weakening the Terran Empire so that the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance would conquer them - and be destroyed from the inside.
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* AntiHumanAlliance: In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' era (mid-22nd cenrury), the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and Orions are loosely united against the Terran Empire. Given the brutality of the Terrans, it's a matter of necessity.
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* AntiHumanAlliance: In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' era (mid-22nd cenrury), century), the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and Orions are loosely united against the Terran Empire. Given the brutality of the Terrans, it's a matter of necessity.necessity.
* AnyoneCanDie: Given that it takes place in the mirror universe, this trope is in full effect when it comes to the mirror versions of familiar characters being, for the most part, murdered, executed or killed in battle.
* AnyoneCanDie: Given that it takes place in the mirror universe, this trope is in full effect when it comes to the mirror versions of familiar characters being, for the most part, murdered, executed or killed in battle.
* TheCoup: In ''The Sorrows of Empire'', Spock seizes control of the Terran Empire by assassinating Empress Hoshi Sato III using the Tantalus field.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Both played straight and inverted.
** Played straight given the [[AnyoneCanDie high casualty rate]] in the mirror universe.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} in that the mirror universe versions of several characters live years or even decades longer than their counterparts. Examples include Deanna's sister Kestra and father Ian, Duras, K'Ehleyr, Tasha Yar, Eddington, Sloan, Seska, Gowron, Dukat and Damar.
** Played straight given the [[AnyoneCanDie high casualty rate]] in the mirror universe.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} in that the mirror universe versions of several characters live years or even decades longer than their counterparts. Examples include Deanna's sister Kestra and father Ian, Duras, K'Ehleyr, Tasha Yar, Eddington, Sloan, Seska, Gowron, Dukat and Damar.
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** Kira has to become the underling to Ro.
** Having been exiled from his home world as a slave, Mac returns to forge his people into a rebellion.
** Torres kills her treacherous lover/slave...[[spoiler: who turns out to be Tom Paris]].
** Having been exiled from his home world as a slave, Mac returns to forge his people into a rebellion.
** Torres kills her treacherous lover/slave...[[spoiler: who turns out to be Tom Paris]].
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** Kira has to become the underling to tforgeo Ro.
** Having been exiled from his home world as a slave, Mac returns to forge his people intoa rebellion.rebels.
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* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Keiko fall in love. In ''Rise Like Lions'', they have a daughter named Molly, though she is not the direct counterpart of the prime universe Molly as she is 12 years younger.
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* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Keiko fall in love. In ''Rise Like Lions'', they have a daughter named Molly, though she is not the direct counterpart of the prime universe Molly as she is 12 years younger. In ''Fearful Symmetry'', Julian describes them as "soul mates in any universe."
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** ''Nobunaga'' (Trip Tucker)
** ''Ill Winds'' (Commodore [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Robert April and his wife Sarah]])
** ''The Greater Good'' (How Mirror Kirk seized control of the ''Enterprise'')
** ''The Black Flag'' (Mirror versions of the [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] crew)
** ''The Traitor'' ([[Literature/StarTrekStargazer Gilaad Ben Zoma]] leads a resistance cell)
** ''The Sacred Chalice'' (Deanna Troi, the daughter of harem owner Lwaxana Troi, on the ruins of Betazed)
** ''Bitter Fruit'' (Kes as a member of Memory Omega)
** ''Family Matters'' (Mirror versions of the IKS ''[[Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire Gorkon]]'' crew)
** ''Homecoming'' (Mirror ''Excalibur'' returns to Romulus)
** ''A Terrible Beauty'' (How Mirror Keiko joined the resistance)
** ''Empathy'' (Mirror versions of the ''[[Literature/StarTrekTitan Titan]]'' crew on Lru-Irr)
** ''For Want of a Nail'' (Mirror K'Ehleyr and Barclay as resistance commandos)
** ''Ill Winds'' (Commodore [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Robert April and his wife Sarah]])
** ''The Greater Good'' (How Mirror Kirk seized control of the ''Enterprise'')
** ''The Black Flag'' (Mirror versions of the [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] crew)
** ''The Traitor'' ([[Literature/StarTrekStargazer Gilaad Ben Zoma]] leads a resistance cell)
** ''The Sacred Chalice'' (Deanna Troi, the daughter of harem owner Lwaxana Troi, on the ruins of Betazed)
** ''Bitter Fruit'' (Kes as a member of Memory Omega)
** ''Family Matters'' (Mirror versions of the IKS ''[[Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire Gorkon]]'' crew)
** ''Homecoming'' (Mirror ''Excalibur'' returns to Romulus)
** ''A Terrible Beauty'' (How Mirror Keiko joined the resistance)
** ''Empathy'' (Mirror versions of the ''[[Literature/StarTrekTitan Titan]]'' crew on Lru-Irr)
** ''For Want of a Nail'' (Mirror K'Ehleyr and Barclay as resistance commandos)
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** ''Nobunaga'' "Nobunaga" (Trip Tucker)
**''Ill Winds'' "Ill Winds" (Commodore [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Robert April and his wife Sarah]])
**''The "The Greater Good'' Good" (How Mirror Kirk seized control of the ''Enterprise'')
**''The "The Black Flag'' Flag" (Mirror versions of the [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] crew)
**''The Traitor'' "The Traitor" ([[Literature/StarTrekStargazer Gilaad Ben Zoma]] leads a resistance cell)
**''The "The Sacred Chalice'' Chalice" (Deanna Troi, the daughter of harem owner Lwaxana Troi, on the ruins of Betazed)
**''Bitter Fruit'' "Bitter Fruit" (Kes as a member of Memory Omega)
**''Family Matters'' "Family Matters" (Mirror versions of the IKS ''[[Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire Gorkon]]'' crew)
**''Homecoming'' "Homecoming" (Mirror ''Excalibur'' returns to Romulus)
**''A "A Terrible Beauty'' (How Mirror Keiko joined the resistance)
**''Empathy'' "Empathy" (Mirror versions of the ''[[Literature/StarTrekTitan Titan]]'' crew on Lru-Irr)
**''For "For Want of a Nail'' Nail" (Mirror K'Ehleyr and Barclay as resistance commandos)
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* AbusiveParent: In ''The Sorrows of Empire'', Marlena's father François regularly beat her and her elder siblings when they were children, particularly if [[AlcoholicParent he had been drinking]].
** Regent Gorkon is responsible for forming the Alliance and conquering the Terran Republic.
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* EnemyCivilWar: A large part of both Memory Omega's and the Terran Rebellion’s plan depends on driving a wedge between the two great powers of the Alliance. Cardassia and the Klingons indeed end up fighting each other.
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* EnemyCivilWar: A large part of both Memory Omega's Omega and the Terran Rebellion’s Rebellion's plan depends on driving a wedge between the two great powers of the Alliance. Cardassia and the Klingons indeed end up fighting each other.
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* InHarmonyWithNature: One of the stories in ''Shards and Shadows'' is set on Lru-Irr, the planet of the Irriol race introduced in ''Literature/StarTrekTitan''. The entire biosphere, Irriol included, is telepathically interconnected to the point where prey will lay down and be eaten if the ecological balance requires it.
* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Keiko fall in love.
* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Keiko fall in love.
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* InHarmonyWithNature: One of the stories in The ''Shards and Shadows'' story "Empathy" is set on Lru-Irr, the planet of the Irriol race introduced in ''Literature/StarTrekTitan''. The entire biosphere, Irriol included, is telepathically interconnected to the point where prey will lay down and be eaten if the ecological balance requires it.
* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Keiko fall in love. In ''Rise Like Lions'', they have a daughter named Molly, though she is not the direct counterpart of the prime universe Molly as she is 12 years younger.
* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Keiko fall in love. In ''Rise Like Lions'', they have a daughter named Molly, though she is not the direct counterpart of the prime universe Molly as she is 12 years younger.
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** And scores more with every major ''Trek'' character warped in some way.
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* PuppeteerParasite: Emperor Spock discovers that the [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Kurlans]] have succeeded in infesting Trill, hijacking the elder egg-laying symbionts as a means of creating more of their body-stealing parasites.
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* PuppeteerParasite: Emperor Spock discovers that the [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Kurlans]] have succeeded in infesting Trill, hijacking the elder egg-laying symbionts as a means of creating more of their body-stealing parasites. He orders every joined Trill to be put to death except for Curzon Dax, who serves as a reminder of what he has become.
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* CulturePolice: In ''The Worst of Both Worlds'', it is mentioned that Alliance banned all "decadent" Terran works of art such as ''Literature/LesMiserables'' after conquering the Terran Republic.
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** ''The Mirror Scaled Serpent'': The Mirror Universe version of the crew of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' and their exploits to take down Intendant B'Elanna.
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** ''The Mirror Scaled Mirror-Scaled Serpent'': The Mirror Universe version of the crew of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' and their exploits to take down Intendant B'Elanna.
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** ''The Worst of Both Worlds'': The story of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Luc Picard]], slave to Gul Macet, captain of a small ship called the ''Stargazer'', as he liberates himself from the Alliance while at the same time defending it from the Borg.
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** ''The Worst of Both Worlds'': The story of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Luc Picard]], slave to Gul Macet, Madred, captain of a small ship called the ''Stargazer'', as he liberates himself from the Alliance while at the same time defending it from the Borg.
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** ''The Sacred Chalice'' (Deanna Troi, the daughter of harem owner Lwaxanna Troi, on the ruins of Betazed)
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** ''The Sacred Chalice'' (Deanna Troi, the daughter of harem owner Lwaxanna Lwaxana Troi, on the ruins of Betazed)
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* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'', ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'', Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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** ''The Mirror Scaled Serpent'': The Mirror Universe version of the crew of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' and their exploits to take down Intendent B'Elanna.
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** ''The Mirror Scaled Serpent'': The Mirror Universe version of the crew of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' and their exploits to take down Intendent Intendant B'Elanna.
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** ''Saturn's Children'': "Smiley" O'Brien, from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', has to deal with unrest in the Terran Rebellion, while at the same time, former Intendent Kira uses her wits to regain her position while dealing with political enemies.
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** ''Saturn's Children'': "Smiley" O'Brien, from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', has to deal with unrest in the Terran Rebellion, while at the same time, former Intendent Intendant Kira uses her wits to regain her position while dealing with political enemies.
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** Also the Taurus Pact, this universe's version of the [[Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact Typhon Pact]].
* AntiHumanAlliance: In the Series/StarTrekEnterprise era (mid-22nd cenrury), the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and Orions are loosely united against the Terran Empire. Given the brutality of the Terrans, it's a matter of necessity.
* AntiHumanAlliance: In the Series/StarTrekEnterprise era (mid-22nd cenrury), the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and Orions are loosely united against the Terran Empire. Given the brutality of the Terrans, it's a matter of necessity.
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** Also the The Taurus Pact, this universe's version of the [[Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact Typhon Pact]].
* AntiHumanAlliance: In theSeries/StarTrekEnterprise ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' era (mid-22nd cenrury), the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and Orions are loosely united against the Terran Empire. Given the brutality of the Terrans, it's a matter of necessity.
* AntiHumanAlliance: In the
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* ContinuitySnarl: The fate of the Constitution-class ''Defiant'' follows from that depicted in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', which was different from what was established in the Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers stories. Reconciling the accounts is not unworkable, but might require some thought. Then again, if the interspace in which the ship was lost connects two universes it could connect more, so the two ''Defiant'' fates aren't necessarily an issue either way.
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* ContinuitySnarl: The fate of the Constitution-class ''Defiant'' follows from that depicted in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', which was different from what was established in the Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'' stories. Reconciling the accounts is not unworkable, but might require some thought. Then again, if the interspace in which the ship was lost connects two universes it could connect more, so the two ''Defiant'' fates aren't necessarily an issue either way.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Mirror Seska is a member of the Terran Rebellion and feverent in her disaproval of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. She believes the Cardassians should rule the quadrant, but they shouldn't have allied with the Klingons to do it.
* DividedWeFall: When O'Brien's Terran Rebellion and Calhoun's Xenexian-Romulan forces come together, the two leaders spend more time posturing and insulting one another than they do co-operating. This leads Memory Omega to impose itself on them as, essentially, their joint leader.
* DividedWeFall: When O'Brien's Terran Rebellion and Calhoun's Xenexian-Romulan forces come together, the two leaders spend more time posturing and insulting one another than they do co-operating. This leads Memory Omega to impose itself on them as, essentially, their joint leader.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Mirror Seska is a member of the Terran Rebellion and feverent fervent in her disaproval of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. She believes the Cardassians should rule the quadrant, but they shouldn't have allied with the Klingons to do it.
* DividedWeFall: When O'Brien's Terran Rebellion and Calhoun's Xenexian-Romulan forces come together, the two leaders spend more time posturing and insulting one another than they doco-operating.cooperating. This leads Memory Omega to impose itself on them as, essentially, their joint leader.
* DividedWeFall: When O'Brien's Terran Rebellion and Calhoun's Xenexian-Romulan forces come together, the two leaders spend more time posturing and insulting one another than they do
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* PullingTheThread: Eddington does a beautiful job of this as he line by line exposes how [[spoiler: Sito Jax's journal on being pregnant]] was actually a complex code showing [[spoiler: she's an Alliance spy.]]
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* PullingTheThread: Eddington does a beautiful job of this as he line by line exposes how [[spoiler: Sito Jax's Jaxa's journal on being pregnant]] was actually a complex code showing [[spoiler: she's an Alliance spy.]]
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Dukat, when asked by Damar what Cardassia has to gain from conquering Bajor in the wake of its secession from the Alliance, answers "Revenge!" He also throws his glass at the wall – hey, it's the mirror universe, it’s supposed to be over-the-top.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Dukat, when asked by Damar what Cardassia has to gain from conquering Bajor in the wake of its secession from the Alliance, answers "Revenge!" He also throws his glass at the wall – hey, it's the mirror universe, it’s it's supposed to be over-the-top.
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* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'', ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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* TheAlliance: The Galactic Commonwealth.
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* TheAlliance: TheAlliance:
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** The Galactic Commonwealth.
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* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Kieko fall in love.
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* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Kieko Keiko fall in love.
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** Janeway is first just an engineer on ''Voyager'' not the Captain. It then turns out she's loyal to the Alliance.
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** Janeway is first just an engineer on ''Voyager'' ''Voyager'', not the Captain. It then turns out she's loyal to the Alliance.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Dukat, when asked by Damar what Cardassia has to gain from conquering Bajor in the wake of its secession from the Alliance, answers “Revenge!” He also throws his glass at the wall – hey, it’s the mirror universe, it’s supposed to be over-the-top.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Dukat, when asked by Damar what Cardassia has to gain from conquering Bajor in the wake of its secession from the Alliance, answers “Revenge!” "Revenge!" He also throws his glass at the wall – hey, it’s it's the mirror universe, it’s supposed to be over-the-top.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: A smuggler is tortured by [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Zhao Sheng]] by being blown out the airlock, transported back onto the ship, then put back into the airlock. The third time round, the prisoner gives in and co-operates.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: A smuggler is tortured by [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Zhao Sheng]] by being blown out the airlock, transported back onto the ship, then put back into the airlock. The third time round, the prisoner gives in and co-operates.cooperates.
* {{Tuckerization}}: In ''The Sorrows of Empire'', Lt. Kyle, who was played by John Winston, is given the first name Winston.
* {{Tuckerization}}: In ''The Sorrows of Empire'', Lt. Kyle, who was played by John Winston, is given the first name Winston.
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''Star Trek: Mirror Universe'' is a series of books in the Franchise/StarTrekNovelverse, Literature/StarTrekNovelverse, filling in the gaps between the episodes taking place in the MirrorUniverse (as shown in the various TV series). There were three anthologies:
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* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse, Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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** Betazed is a horrible, blasted out world cited as one of the ugliest in the galaxy.
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* InSpiteOfANail: While there are scores of differences of people and their relationships, in ''Saturn's Children'', Miles and Kieko fall in love.
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* PullingTheThread: Eddington does a beautiful job of this as he line by line exposes how [[spoiler: Sito Jax's journal on being pregnant]] was actually a complex code showing [[spoiler: she's an Alliance spy.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: "Muck" (the Mirror Universe Calhoun) meets Shelby (his wife in the regular universe) who's a slave. There's a connection between them as she aids Muck and seems to indicate they'll end up a couple in this universe as well...[[spoiler: and then Shelby is killed without warning]].
** Torres kills her treacherous lover/slave...[[spoiler: who turns out to be Tom Paris]].
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* OutGambitted: Sato tricks Shran into an alliance by claiming the records of the future aboard the ''Defiant'' showed they would be married with a son. She smugly thinks she can use her "future knowledge" to defend her various actions and win others to her side. She's stunned when, a few years later, Shran pulls a coup on her. Shran reveals he never believed Sato's talk in the first place and managed to decode the records to discover ''Defiant'' isn't from this universe at all. However, he does plan to use their marriage and a lab-created "son" to break Andoria away and forge its own Empire with Shran as ruler.
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* OutGambitted: Sato tricks Shran into an alliance by claiming the records of the future aboard the ''Defiant'' showed they would be married with a son. She smugly thinks she can use her "future knowledge" to defend her various actions and win others to her side. She's stunned when, a few years later, following the marriage, Shran pulls a coup on her. Shran reveals he never believed Sato's talk in the first place and managed to decode the records to discover ''Defiant'' isn't from this universe at all. However, he does plan to use their marriage and a lab-created "son" to break Andoria away and forge its own Empire with Shran as ruler.
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* DramaticIrony: Scores of cases as people who are allies in one universe are enemies in this one and vice versa.
** In the ''New Frontier'' series, Si Cwan and Zak Kebron are constantly at odds. In this universe, they're good friends.
** Picard intends to use the Borg against the Alliance.
** Kira has to become the underling to Ro.
** Having been exiled from his home world as a slave, Mac returns to forge his people into a rebellion.
** In the ''New Frontier'' series, Si Cwan and Zak Kebron are constantly at odds. In this universe, they're good friends.
** Picard intends to use the Borg against the Alliance.
** Kira has to become the underling to Ro.
** Having been exiled from his home world as a slave, Mac returns to forge his people into a rebellion.
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* MirrorSelf: Pretty obvious with unique turns on characters:
** Mac is not a warrior from the beginning but a downright cowardly wimp who has to learn to fight to survive.
** Janeway is first just an engineer on ''Voyager'' not the Captain. It then turns out she's loyal to the Alliance.
** Harry Kim is a brutal, near psychopath who just wants to kill Klingons.
** Seska is allied with Chakotay while still a Cardassian
** And scores more with every major ''Trek'' character warped in some way.
** Mac is not a warrior from the beginning but a downright cowardly wimp who has to learn to fight to survive.
** Janeway is first just an engineer on ''Voyager'' not the Captain. It then turns out she's loyal to the Alliance.
** Harry Kim is a brutal, near psychopath who just wants to kill Klingons.
** Seska is allied with Chakotay while still a Cardassian
** And scores more with every major ''Trek'' character warped in some way.
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* OutGambitted: Sato tricks Shran into an alliance by claiming the records of the future aboard the ''Defiant'' showed they would be married with a son. She smugly thinks she can use her "future knowledge" to defend her various actions and win others to her side. She's stunned when, a few years later, Shran pulls a coup on her. Shran reveals he never believed Sato's talk in the first place and managed to decode the records to discover ''Defiant'' isn't from this universe at all. However, he does plan to use their marriage and a lab-created "son" to break Andoria away and forge its own Empire with Shran as ruler.
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* ContinuitySnarl: The fate of the Constitution-class ''Defiant'' follows from that depicted in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', which was different from what was established in the StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers stories. Reconciling the accounts is not unworkable, but might require some thought. Then again, if the interspace in which the ship was lost connects two universes it could connect more, so the two ''Defiant'' fates aren't necessarily an issue either way.
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* ContinuitySnarl: The fate of the Constitution-class ''Defiant'' follows from that depicted in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', which was different from what was established in the StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers stories. Reconciling the accounts is not unworkable, but might require some thought. Then again, if the interspace in which the ship was lost connects two universes it could connect more, so the two ''Defiant'' fates aren't necessarily an issue either way.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Memory Omega is pulling a lot of strings with regard to the rebellion, and K'Ehleyr in turn is (at first) propping up Picard as their leader because she knows no Terran or Romulan would ever take orders from a Klingon, half-human or not.
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* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Just before his death, Emperor Spock records a message for the future. In it, he lists out all the people he murdered (including his own mother), all the worlds he destroyed, and all the crimes he committed in the name of his grand plan. He closes by saying he has become that which he opposed - a tyrant and a despot - and that history must not laud him but instead treat him as the villain he is.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: {{Implied}} at the end of ''Rise Like Lions''. [[spoiler:The Mirror Dominion finds the Bajoran wormhole before anyone on the Alpha Quadrant side does. Uh-oh.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: {{Implied}} at the end of ''Rise Like Lions''. [[spoiler:The Mirror Dominion finds the Bajoran wormhole before anyone on the Alpha Quadrant side does. Uh-oh. Except as it turns out in ''Literature/Section31Disavowed'', maybe not.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: {{Implied}} at the end of ''Rise Like Lions''. [[spoiler:The Mirror Dominion finds the Bajoran wormhole before anyone on the Alpha Quadrant side does. Uh-oh.]]
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** ''Cutting Ties'': The Mirror Universe version of the ''StarTrekNewFrontier'' crew as they free themselves from the Romulan Empire.
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** ''Family Matters'' (Mirror versions of the IKS ''[[StarTrekKlingonEmpire Gorkon]]'' crew)
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fate of [[StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] in ''The Black Flag'' is pretty similar to that suffered by the prime universe Vanguard, several (real world) years later.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fate of [[StarTrekVanguard [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] in ''The Black Flag'' is pretty similar to that suffered by the prime universe Vanguard, several (real world) years later.
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* PuppeteerParasite: Emperor Spock discovers that the [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Kurlans]] have succeeded in infesting Trill, hijacking the elder egg-laying symbionts as a means of creating more of their body-stealing parasites.
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* PuppeteerParasite: Emperor Spock discovers that the [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Kurlans]] have succeeded in infesting Trill, hijacking the elder egg-laying symbionts as a means of creating more of their body-stealing parasites.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: A smuggler is tortured by [[StarTrekVanguard Zhao Sheng]] by being blown out the airlock, transported back onto the ship, then put back into the airlock. The third time round, the prisoner gives in and co-operates.
* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: A smuggler is tortured by [[StarTrekVanguard [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Zhao Sheng]] by being blown out the airlock, transported back onto the ship, then put back into the airlock. The third time round, the prisoner gives in and co-operates.
* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstreamStarTrekNovelVerse, Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream
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''Star Trek: Mirror Universe'' is a series of books in the Franchise/StarTrekNovelverse, filling in the gaps between the episodes taking place in the MirrorUniverse (as shown in the various TV series). There were three anthologies:
* ''Glass Empires'':
** ''Age of the Empress'': The rise of Empress [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Sato]] to power.
** ''The Sorrows of Empire'': Mirror [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]]'s rising through the ranks to admiral, coup to become emperor and purposely weakening the Terran Empire so that the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance would conquer them - and be destroyed from the inside.
** ''The Worst of Both Worlds'': The story of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Luc Picard]], slave to Gul Macet, captain of a small ship called the ''Stargazer'', as he liberates himself from the Alliance while at the same time defending it from the Borg.
* ''Obsidian Alliances'':
** ''The Mirror Scaled Serpent'': The Mirror Universe version of the crew of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' and their exploits to take down Intendent B'Elanna.
** ''Cutting Ties'': The Mirror Universe version of the ''StarTrekNewFrontier'' crew as they free themselves from the Romulan Empire.
** ''Saturn's Children'': "Smiley" O'Brien, from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', has to deal with unrest in the Terran Rebellion, while at the same time, former Intendent Kira uses her wits to regain her position while dealing with political enemies.
* ''Shards and Shadows'':
** ''Nobunaga'' (Trip Tucker)
** ''Ill Winds'' (Commodore [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Robert April and his wife Sarah]])
** ''The Greater Good'' (How Mirror Kirk seized control of the ''Enterprise'')
** ''The Black Flag'' (Mirror versions of the [[StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] crew)
** ''The Traitor'' ([[Literature/StarTrekStargazer Gilaad Ben Zoma]] leads a resistance cell)
** ''The Sacred Chalice'' (Deanna Troi, the daughter of harem owner Lwaxanna Troi, on the ruins of Betazed)
** ''Bitter Fruit'' (Kes as a member of Memory Omega)
** ''Family Matters'' (Mirror versions of the IKS ''[[StarTrekKlingonEmpire Gorkon]]'' crew)
** ''Homecoming'' (Mirror ''Excalibur'' returns to Romulus)
** ''A Terrible Beauty'' (How Mirror Keiko joined the resistance)
** ''Empathy'' (Mirror versions of the ''[[Literature/StarTrekTitan Titan]]'' crew on Lru-Irr)
** ''For Want of a Nail'' (Mirror K'Ehleyr and Barclay as resistance commandos)
The Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch novels ''Fearful Symmetry'' and ''The Soul Key'' are crossovers with the Mirror Universe series.
Finally, we have the concluding novel, ''Rise Like Lions'': The fall of Terok Nor, the destruction of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, the secession of Bajor, and the establishment of a new government body, the Galactic Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth later features in ''Literature/StarTrekSection31Disavowed''.
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!!These books contain examples of:
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Mirror Universe Picard is one, though not an independent one as he wants to be.
* TheAlliance: The Galactic Commonwealth.
** Also the Taurus Pact, this universe's version of the [[Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact Typhon Pact]].
* AntiHumanAlliance: In the Series/StarTrekEnterprise era (mid-22nd cenrury), the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and Orions are loosely united against the Terran Empire. Given the brutality of the Terrans, it's a matter of necessity.
* TheAtoner: Damar, after wiping out pretty much every non-Cardassian servant or slave (''Rise Like Lions'' mostly focuses on the Vulcans, apparently because they're the ones that actually are responsible for the triggering events and because Vulcans are very popular as slaves) in the Cardassian realm. When it became clear their telepathy was behind the anarchy gripping Cardassia, he ordered the genocide, and it shattered his sense of worth. He seeks solace in the [[GoodOldWays Oralian Way]].
* BeingHumanSucks: Vash, after her Tellarite and Vulcan companions smell and hear things, respectively, far sooner than she could, reflects that human senses are so often inadequate - and many races live longer as well.
* TheButcher: The Tellarite Gral (in the Prime Universe a diplomat) is known to the Terran Empire as "The Butcher of Berengaria".
* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: [[spoiler: Dukat]] gets his head blown off by [[spoiler: a Vulcan-influenced Damar]] as he's giving a speech to the Cardassian people.
* ContinuitySnarl: The fate of the Constitution-class ''Defiant'' follows from that depicted in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', which was different from what was established in the StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers stories. Reconciling the accounts is not unworkable, but might require some thought. Then again, if the interspace in which the ship was lost connects two universes it could connect more, so the two ''Defiant'' fates aren't necessarily an issue either way.
* DarkMagicalGirl: [[spoiler: Kes ends up as this]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: Much more so than even the bleakest installments in the Prime Universe.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Mirror Seska is a member of the Terran Rebellion and feverent in her disaproval of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. She believes the Cardassians should rule the quadrant, but they shouldn't have allied with the Klingons to do it.
* DividedWeFall: When O'Brien's Terran Rebellion and Calhoun's Xenexian-Romulan forces come together, the two leaders spend more time posturing and insulting one another than they do co-operating. This leads Memory Omega to impose itself on them as, essentially, their joint leader.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Kes starts succumbing to the temptations of her incredible psychic powers after [[spoiler: Neelix dies]], but comes down quickly when she realizes [[spoiler: she has seconds left to live.]]
* DyingAlone: In ''The Sorrows of Empire'', Mirror Spock and his wife, Marlena, have a conversation in which he promises her that they'll be together when they die, but notes that in the end, ''everyone'' is alone when they die.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: ''Rise Like Lions'', full stop. So, [[spoiler: billions of people on all sides are dead, combatants and civilians alike. Yet now, the galaxy appears to have entered an unprecedented era of peace... unless the Dominion finds the wormhole or the Borg return...]]
* EnemyCivilWar: A large part of both Memory Omega's and the Terran Rebellion’s plan depends on driving a wedge between the two great powers of the Alliance. Cardassia and the Klingons indeed end up fighting each other.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Kes]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fate of [[StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] in ''The Black Flag'' is pretty similar to that suffered by the prime universe Vanguard, several (real world) years later.
* GoodOldWays: The Oralian Way on Cardassia, just like in the Prime Universe.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Empress Sato tries to have an offspring with Shran. Given the ''very'' different genetic structures of the parents, the baby is artificially engineered and it's not even certain if the experiment ultimately succeeds.
* HappinessInSlavery: Mirror Janeway and Mirror [[Literature/StarTrekTitan Christine Vale]] are both loyal to the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Vale even gets a speech about how the savagery of the Terran Empire is evidence her people shouldn't be allowed freedom.
* HopeSpringsEternal: The ending of ''The Sorrows of Empire'' is both one of the bleakest and simultaneously most uplifting there is.
* InHarmonyWithNature: One of the stories in ''Shards and Shadows'' is set on Lru-Irr, the planet of the Irriol race introduced in ''Literature/StarTrekTitan''. The entire biosphere, Irriol included, is telepathically interconnected to the point where prey will lay down and be eaten if the ecological balance requires it.
* LastOfHisKind: The Dax Symbiont, following the genocide of the other symbionts on Trill.
* MirrorUniverse: Duh.
* NecessarilyEvil: The actions Spock takes to ensure that the the spirit of the Terran Republic and freedom lives on are quite ruthless, and he knows it. He even calls himself a villain.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Kes.
* PuppeteerParasite: Emperor Spock discovers that the [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Kurlans]] have succeeded in infesting Trill, hijacking the elder egg-laying symbionts as a means of creating more of their body-stealing parasites.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Dukat, when asked by Damar what Cardassia has to gain from conquering Bajor in the wake of its secession from the Alliance, answers “Revenge!” He also throws his glass at the wall – hey, it’s the mirror universe, it’s supposed to be over-the-top.
* RunningGag: The MirrorUniverse episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had a running gag concerning Ferengi characters being killed off. The joke climaxes in ''Rise Like Lions'' with [[spoiler: the destruction of Ferenginar itself]].
* SequelHook: The [[spoiler: Dominion]] finds the wormhole opening in the Gamma Quadrant.
* StarKilling: Trilithium warheads. One is used to destroy the [[spoiler: Ferenginar]] system.
* ThanatosGambit: Spock's death is just one step in a huge, century-long gambit of his own design.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: A smuggler is tortured by [[StarTrekVanguard Zhao Sheng]] by being blown out the airlock, transported back onto the ship, then put back into the airlock. The third time round, the prisoner gives in and co-operates.
* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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''Star Trek: Mirror Universe'' is a series of books in the Franchise/StarTrekNovelverse, filling in the gaps between the episodes taking place in the MirrorUniverse (as shown in the various TV series). There were three anthologies:
* ''Glass Empires'':
** ''Age of the Empress'': The rise of Empress [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Sato]] to power.
** ''The Sorrows of Empire'': Mirror [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]]'s rising through the ranks to admiral, coup to become emperor and purposely weakening the Terran Empire so that the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance would conquer them - and be destroyed from the inside.
** ''The Worst of Both Worlds'': The story of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Luc Picard]], slave to Gul Macet, captain of a small ship called the ''Stargazer'', as he liberates himself from the Alliance while at the same time defending it from the Borg.
* ''Obsidian Alliances'':
** ''The Mirror Scaled Serpent'': The Mirror Universe version of the crew of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' and their exploits to take down Intendent B'Elanna.
** ''Cutting Ties'': The Mirror Universe version of the ''StarTrekNewFrontier'' crew as they free themselves from the Romulan Empire.
** ''Saturn's Children'': "Smiley" O'Brien, from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', has to deal with unrest in the Terran Rebellion, while at the same time, former Intendent Kira uses her wits to regain her position while dealing with political enemies.
* ''Shards and Shadows'':
** ''Nobunaga'' (Trip Tucker)
** ''Ill Winds'' (Commodore [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Robert April and his wife Sarah]])
** ''The Greater Good'' (How Mirror Kirk seized control of the ''Enterprise'')
** ''The Black Flag'' (Mirror versions of the [[StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] crew)
** ''The Traitor'' ([[Literature/StarTrekStargazer Gilaad Ben Zoma]] leads a resistance cell)
** ''The Sacred Chalice'' (Deanna Troi, the daughter of harem owner Lwaxanna Troi, on the ruins of Betazed)
** ''Bitter Fruit'' (Kes as a member of Memory Omega)
** ''Family Matters'' (Mirror versions of the IKS ''[[StarTrekKlingonEmpire Gorkon]]'' crew)
** ''Homecoming'' (Mirror ''Excalibur'' returns to Romulus)
** ''A Terrible Beauty'' (How Mirror Keiko joined the resistance)
** ''Empathy'' (Mirror versions of the ''[[Literature/StarTrekTitan Titan]]'' crew on Lru-Irr)
** ''For Want of a Nail'' (Mirror K'Ehleyr and Barclay as resistance commandos)
The Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch novels ''Fearful Symmetry'' and ''The Soul Key'' are crossovers with the Mirror Universe series.
Finally, we have the concluding novel, ''Rise Like Lions'': The fall of Terok Nor, the destruction of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, the secession of Bajor, and the establishment of a new government body, the Galactic Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth later features in ''Literature/StarTrekSection31Disavowed''.
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!!These books contain examples of:
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Mirror Universe Picard is one, though not an independent one as he wants to be.
* TheAlliance: The Galactic Commonwealth.
** Also the Taurus Pact, this universe's version of the [[Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact Typhon Pact]].
* AntiHumanAlliance: In the Series/StarTrekEnterprise era (mid-22nd cenrury), the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and Orions are loosely united against the Terran Empire. Given the brutality of the Terrans, it's a matter of necessity.
* TheAtoner: Damar, after wiping out pretty much every non-Cardassian servant or slave (''Rise Like Lions'' mostly focuses on the Vulcans, apparently because they're the ones that actually are responsible for the triggering events and because Vulcans are very popular as slaves) in the Cardassian realm. When it became clear their telepathy was behind the anarchy gripping Cardassia, he ordered the genocide, and it shattered his sense of worth. He seeks solace in the [[GoodOldWays Oralian Way]].
* BeingHumanSucks: Vash, after her Tellarite and Vulcan companions smell and hear things, respectively, far sooner than she could, reflects that human senses are so often inadequate - and many races live longer as well.
* TheButcher: The Tellarite Gral (in the Prime Universe a diplomat) is known to the Terran Empire as "The Butcher of Berengaria".
* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: [[spoiler: Dukat]] gets his head blown off by [[spoiler: a Vulcan-influenced Damar]] as he's giving a speech to the Cardassian people.
* ContinuitySnarl: The fate of the Constitution-class ''Defiant'' follows from that depicted in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', which was different from what was established in the StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers stories. Reconciling the accounts is not unworkable, but might require some thought. Then again, if the interspace in which the ship was lost connects two universes it could connect more, so the two ''Defiant'' fates aren't necessarily an issue either way.
* DarkMagicalGirl: [[spoiler: Kes ends up as this]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: Much more so than even the bleakest installments in the Prime Universe.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Mirror Seska is a member of the Terran Rebellion and feverent in her disaproval of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. She believes the Cardassians should rule the quadrant, but they shouldn't have allied with the Klingons to do it.
* DividedWeFall: When O'Brien's Terran Rebellion and Calhoun's Xenexian-Romulan forces come together, the two leaders spend more time posturing and insulting one another than they do co-operating. This leads Memory Omega to impose itself on them as, essentially, their joint leader.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Kes starts succumbing to the temptations of her incredible psychic powers after [[spoiler: Neelix dies]], but comes down quickly when she realizes [[spoiler: she has seconds left to live.]]
* DyingAlone: In ''The Sorrows of Empire'', Mirror Spock and his wife, Marlena, have a conversation in which he promises her that they'll be together when they die, but notes that in the end, ''everyone'' is alone when they die.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: ''Rise Like Lions'', full stop. So, [[spoiler: billions of people on all sides are dead, combatants and civilians alike. Yet now, the galaxy appears to have entered an unprecedented era of peace... unless the Dominion finds the wormhole or the Borg return...]]
* EnemyCivilWar: A large part of both Memory Omega's and the Terran Rebellion’s plan depends on driving a wedge between the two great powers of the Alliance. Cardassia and the Klingons indeed end up fighting each other.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Kes]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fate of [[StarTrekVanguard Vanguard Station]] in ''The Black Flag'' is pretty similar to that suffered by the prime universe Vanguard, several (real world) years later.
* GoodOldWays: The Oralian Way on Cardassia, just like in the Prime Universe.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Empress Sato tries to have an offspring with Shran. Given the ''very'' different genetic structures of the parents, the baby is artificially engineered and it's not even certain if the experiment ultimately succeeds.
* HappinessInSlavery: Mirror Janeway and Mirror [[Literature/StarTrekTitan Christine Vale]] are both loyal to the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Vale even gets a speech about how the savagery of the Terran Empire is evidence her people shouldn't be allowed freedom.
* HopeSpringsEternal: The ending of ''The Sorrows of Empire'' is both one of the bleakest and simultaneously most uplifting there is.
* InHarmonyWithNature: One of the stories in ''Shards and Shadows'' is set on Lru-Irr, the planet of the Irriol race introduced in ''Literature/StarTrekTitan''. The entire biosphere, Irriol included, is telepathically interconnected to the point where prey will lay down and be eaten if the ecological balance requires it.
* LastOfHisKind: The Dax Symbiont, following the genocide of the other symbionts on Trill.
* MirrorUniverse: Duh.
* NecessarilyEvil: The actions Spock takes to ensure that the the spirit of the Terran Republic and freedom lives on are quite ruthless, and he knows it. He even calls himself a villain.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Kes.
* PuppeteerParasite: Emperor Spock discovers that the [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Kurlans]] have succeeded in infesting Trill, hijacking the elder egg-laying symbionts as a means of creating more of their body-stealing parasites.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Dukat, when asked by Damar what Cardassia has to gain from conquering Bajor in the wake of its secession from the Alliance, answers “Revenge!” He also throws his glass at the wall – hey, it’s the mirror universe, it’s supposed to be over-the-top.
* RunningGag: The MirrorUniverse episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had a running gag concerning Ferengi characters being killed off. The joke climaxes in ''Rise Like Lions'' with [[spoiler: the destruction of Ferenginar itself]].
* SequelHook: The [[spoiler: Dominion]] finds the wormhole opening in the Gamma Quadrant.
* StarKilling: Trilithium warheads. One is used to destroy the [[spoiler: Ferenginar]] system.
* ThanatosGambit: Spock's death is just one step in a huge, century-long gambit of his own design.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: A smuggler is tortured by [[StarTrekVanguard Zhao Sheng]] by being blown out the airlock, transported back onto the ship, then put back into the airlock. The third time round, the prisoner gives in and co-operates.
* VestigialEmpire: It seems the Romulan Star Empire splinters and collapses no matter which universe we’re in; the mainstream StarTrekNovelVerse, VideoGame/StarTrekOnline, and now here. After the destruction of Romulus occurs early thanks to a thalaron weapon, the colonies are left to be conquered by Klingons or join Calhoun’s resistance. [[spoiler: The Star Empire gets re-established after the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance collapses, and forms an alliance with the new Galactic Commonwealth]].
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