A Pirate At Heart
Jan. 9th, 2018 02:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofelevenWatching the new Discovery, and it reminded me of something that's always bugged me about Enterprise's take on the Mirror Universe. It had the Vulcans as one of the races conquered by the Terrans. And I find this hard to square with the orignal Mirror, Mirror.
In Mirror, Mirror, Spock's a high-ranking officer. He has a Vulcan bodyguard – the only other Starfleet Vulcan we see in TOS! He threatens Sulu that he has agents who would avenge his death and 'some of them are Vulcans'. So I always assumed the mirror Vulcans were just as bad as the Terrans – a powerful and feared elite within the Empire, not slaves and rebels.
I don't know, I just feel Enterprise's Terran-only Empire was a bit less interesting than what was implied in TOS.
In Mirror, Mirror, Spock's a high-ranking officer. He has a Vulcan bodyguard – the only other Starfleet Vulcan we see in TOS! He threatens Sulu that he has agents who would avenge his death and 'some of them are Vulcans'. So I always assumed the mirror Vulcans were just as bad as the Terrans – a powerful and feared elite within the Empire, not slaves and rebels.
I don't know, I just feel Enterprise's Terran-only Empire was a bit less interesting than what was implied in TOS.
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on 2018-01-08 04:51 pm (UTC)Can't speak to old canon, but since the Vulcans are genetically so close to Humans that they can have children together (whether by parallel evolution and a quirk of genetics, or some common origins I don't know) the Vulcans as part of the Empire would make total sense to me...but it would require more differential characterization of the evil of the Empire than we've seen in Star Trek: Disco, I suppose: that not everything is racism and xenophobia; fascist regimes work on principles like power and profit! too, and Evil!Vulcans would be extremely helpful in these endeavors.