I believe they take place roughly a year from now in the timeline. It definitely hits close to home given the circumstances.
The time loop variety are my favourite. The one from TNG where the enterprise keeps getting blown up is great. I also love the Discovery episode. It was like fighting an evil groundhogs day guy.
Honestly, I would put those above mirror universe episodes any day of the week.
Hot Take: the only truly good mirror universe episode was Mirror, Mirror.
I mean, if you don't like the style and accoutrements there's no reason to force yourself through them. There's more than enough Trek to avoid stuff that's not your bag and still have a wonderful time!
I generally like him, but mirror universe Vic Fontaine was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
Tbh i hate the mirror universe now... from being a not-so-serious in-joke that came back every now and then, not as much as nudging the timeline, plot or characters into any too serious a direction, to becoming an important part of cannon that I just don't like... mostly because of Discovery and Picard.
It's really just too cheesy. Alternative universes, by all means, but just a mirror universe where there's a bit of a role reversal which stems from can only be described as "a trend in the 70s".
Mirror this, bizarro that, cod sarn it. To call it a gimmick is a bit of an understatement. To call it cannon is a bit embarrassing.
Now excuse me, I've ranted about Star Trek on the interwebz, so now I have to go fulfill the government mandated 3 hours of grass touching.
I like that particular cheese, but I couldn't agree more that making it canon or blowing it into something more than a fun time you bust out once in a while to let your actors have a bit of fun playing a bad guy is kinda lame.
I might be in the minority,, but I hated the mirror universe episodes. Every single one of them felt like consequence free filler with bad low stakes plot points. I mean, yeah people died, but not the characters I actually cared about.
Mirror universe, time travel and holodeck episodes, the holy trinity of filler episodes in Star Trek.
Oh look we have all these sets and costumes from a different show next door and we're low on budget this season. Welp looks like we're doing a Pirate episode! The question is, time travel, Holodeck or mirror universe? 🤔
I can count on one hand the number of mirror universe episodes I've enjoyed in trek. But I don't even need that one hand to count the mirror episodes I liked in DS9...
Awkwardness is probably a variable that is greatly diminished by the writers own horny-on-main.
Who the hell was responsible for the shoddy lumps of code they call safety protocols? And how the fuck can they "fail"? Any halfway responsible programming would assume the default to be safety on hard coded. So if those protocols were to "fail" they wouldengage safety!
In Star Trek, all the software is built by prompting some AI, so nobody knows what the fuck the code is actually doing. 😅
I’m mostly just against the holodeck episodes. Every time my wif watched ds9 with me, it ended up being a holodeck episode. She doesn’t like Star Trek.