After nearly 60 years of existence, many things about Star Trek: The Original Series are iconic from the (never actually said) line, “Beam me up, Scotty” to Leonard Nimoy’s Vulcan nerve pinch. The Season 2 episode “Mirror, Mirror” is another, for its introduction of the Mirror Universe. The goatee Spock wears in the episode even started the pre-internet meme of “evil” versions of characters sporting distinct facial hair. In fact, Star Trek: Discovery is the show that spent the most time in the Mirror Universe, with seven episodes over two seasons. Deep Space Nine got to visit the Mirror Universe five times during its run and Enterprise — the series that followed Star Trek: Voyager — visited it for a two-parter.The third series in the third wave of the franchise Star Trek: Voyager similarly went where no man, woman or non-binary Alpha Quadrant alien had gone before. They visited all new planets, met never-before-seen aliens and fought the Borg more times than Jean-Luc Picard ever did. One place the USS Voyager never got to visit was Star Trek’s Mirror Universe, but the Season 4 episode “Living Witness” was the next best thing. While Captain Kathryn Janeway and crew never crossed into this alternate reality, the “Living Witness” episode showed viewers what the characters might be like over there. It also featured a classic Star Trek moral question and dilemma.Like the term Jefferies tubes for starships, no character actually referred to the Mirror Universe as such until Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. It was a name used by writers, fans and Star Trek historians primarily. While multiverse and alternate realities are all the rage today, the concept of the parallel universe was relatively new in 1967. Writer Jerome Bixby took the idea from his short story “One Way Street” for the episode, but the concept existed around Star Trek after Harlan Ellison proposed it for “City on the Edge of Forever,” according to the book These Are the Voyages: TOS Season 2 by Marc Cushman and Susan Osborn.Janeway’s Coffee Addiction on Star Trek: Voyager Is Not the Fault of the Writers
After nearly 60 years of existence, many things about Star Trek: The Original Series are iconic from the (never actually said) line, “Beam me up, Scotty” to Leonard Nimoy’s Vulcan nerve pinch. The Season 2 episode “Mirror, Mirror” is another, for its introduction of the Mirror Universe. The goatee Spock wears in the episode even started the pre-internet meme of “evil” versions of characters sporting distinct facial hair. In fact, Star Trek: Discovery is the show that spent the most time in the Mirror Universe, with seven episodes over two seasons. Deep Space Nine got to visit the Mirror Universe five times during its run and Enterprise — the series that followed Star Trek: Voyager — visited it for a two-parter.
The third series in the third wave of the franchise Star Trek: Voyager similarly went where no man, woman or non-binary Alpha Quadrant alien had gone before. They visited all new planets, met never-before-seen aliens and fought the Borg more times than Jean-Luc Picard ever did. One place the USS Voyager never got to visit was Star Trek‘s Mirror Universe, but the Season 4 episode “Living Witness” was the next best thing. While Captain Kathryn Janeway and crew never crossed into this alternate reality, the “Living Witness” episode showed viewers what the characters might be like over there. It also featured a classic Star Trek moral question and dilemma.
Like the term Jefferies tubes for starships, no character actually referred to the Mirror Universe as such until Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. It was a name used by writers, fans and Star Trek historians primarily. While multiverse and alternate realities are all the rage today, the concept of the parallel universe was relatively new in 1967. Writer Jerome Bixby took the idea from his short story “One Way Street” for the episode, but the concept existed around Star Trek after Harlan Ellison proposed it for “City on the Edge of Forever,” according to the book These Are the Voyages: TOS Season 2 by Marc Cushman and Susan Osborn.
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