Meanings
mirrorverse1
Mirrorverse2
- slanglifestyleThe Mirror Universe of Star Trek, a dark parallel universe to the main setting of the franchise, in which humans are brutal, despotic conquerors.
I love the subtle beginning to the fic, so that you don't realize it's Mirrorverse until the start of the third paragraph, where everything goes a bit askew.
2004 March 18, ASC Awards - Stephen, “ASC Awards Comment Digest #132: DS9 Bashir Pairing”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet)2 more examples
Does the alternate Star Trek timeline created by Nero have a Mirrorverse 2 in which a Mirror Nero went back in time after the destruction of Mirror Romulus to destroy Mirror Vulcan as Mirror Spock watched?
2009 May 18, Tim Bruening, “Re: Star Trek 11 Movie Spoilers”, in alt.tv.star-trek (Usenet)Besides the Klingon desire for cultural purity, humanity in the Mirrorverse is also shown as a fascistic tyranny (the Terran Empire) centered on racial purity.
2020, Ina Batzke, “From Series to Seriality: Star Trek's Mirror Universe in the Post-Network Era”, in Mareike Spychala, Sabrina Mittermeier, editors, Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery, page 170
Origin
From mirror + -verse, with "mirror" derived from the name of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Mirror, Mirror," in which the setting was introduced.
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