Nuclear war is cannon.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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I was just thinking about how when this episode aired, it was only 20ish years after WW2 ended.
This was recent history to everyone, and they were already making social commentary about it here, as well as the episode where they go to the literal Nazi planet.
9/11 is further in the past for us than WW2 was for them.
Where can I sign up for the Eugenics shots?
If I'm going to live in an authoritarian hellscape I'm doing it with genetic enhancements or not at all.
You've been genetically enhanced! ..... to work 18 hours a day in a dilithium mine!
Can it be at this mine?
My luck I'll be sent to Rura Penthe.
I was expecting a face looming in the background tbqh
That sounds suspiciously like hormone therapy. Banned! /s
Just my luck I'm either in the Control group and get the placebo, or I get in super early trials and end up with the Kane Madness
Time to change your username to Smike.
Given how things have been going for most of the western world I wonder:
I KNEW this was the mirror universe. I'm making a break for it you guys.
How can he walk through it, yet break it with his fist? I call shenanigans!
You say that, but Star Trek Earth 2025 - 2050 didn't exactly go great, even if they managed to sort things out in the end. It took them at least a whole century to really clean up their act.
Yeah, were due a third world war first.
*nuclear war
We are the Mirror Universe, not the Prime universe
We're in a third alternate universe where we get the Bell Riots, WWIII, nuclear apocalypse, authoritarian government, uncontrolled eugenics programs, no warp engine technology and no Vulcans or alien species coming to save us from ourselves ..... oh yeah but the Borg arrive too.
Honestly, the Borg arriving would be something of a mercy. I'd join.
I bet we invent the Borg
I'm pretty sure that's what Musk is trying for with his brain implants.
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But the Borg of this universe can't communicate with eachother. The queen can send orders and the Borg can send up responses or thoughts, but the queen largely ignores non-beneficial thoughts. But because of this, there is a queen each subqueen can send communications to and receive orders from. All the way up to the "CEO queen" who does the bidding of the actual collective "board of queens".
The more powerful queens have simply survived longer and assimilated more, and have spawned enough queens to destroy rival colonies.
Instead of being referred to as the "Borg Collective" they call themselves "Hardworking Individuals".
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The Bell riots never happen in this timeline
They’ll happen. Just later. And worse.
Just like the eugenics wars.
People, it is with great sadness I come to the conclusion that we are the mirror universe.
If Vulcans landed, we would absolutely board their ship and take everything we can.
Kill them, board the ship, take everything we can, attempt to reverse engineer it, find tech that could make life instantly better for over 90% of the population to end world hunger and instantly cure countless diseases injuries and ailments...but instead they patent it and hold back 100 years of progress while some people get obscenely rich
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We ended up with the Alternative future, whoopsie.
Can somebody reverse the polarity or something already!? 😜
Somebody needs to take Klingonstopher Lyod's bird of prey back in time and fix this already.
Ugh, fine. Here's my pain amplifier.
This time, we'll make Spock's rebellion succeed
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