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What happened in the end? Could you get it if you seen other ST shows?

Where did they end up? Or when??!
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some kind of parallel universe, probably the one he's from

the big theory is that he's from the mirror universe, where the Federation is much more militaristic (why he slept with a phaser under his pillow) and humans are kind of bad
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I was thinking of parallel universe too, but has ST done that before?
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the mirror universe is a concept in quite a few of the shows, where humanity shot the vulcans on first contact and went on to enslave everyone

then there are your stock alt-universes where things are different depending on the episode. there's a few of those episodes, none nearly as in-depth as the mirrorverse

and then there's the JJ movies, which takes place in an alternate universe created by a red matter explosion
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prince_leo posted...

the mirror universe is a concept in quite a few of the shows, where humanity

Interesting...could it be that then? I mean in the episode Stamos became the spore drive conduit thing we saw his reflection on the mirror stay after he left.
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prince_leo posted...

some kind of parallel universe, probably the one he's from

the big theory is that he's from the mirror universe, where the Federation is much more militaristic (why he slept with a phaser under his pillow) and humans are kind of bad

Yeah its an interesting theory but Im hoping thats not it
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FF_Redux posted...

Interesting...could it be that then? I mean in the episode Stamos became the spore drive conduit thing we saw his reflection on the mirror stay after he left.

yeah, that's one of the arguments people are making about it, that there are little nods here and there to it
of course it could be a misidrect

E32005 posted...

Yeah its an interesting theory but Im hoping thats not it

it is trite, but i'm neutral on it because at this point I just want Trek to be done well on the small screen
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What Im hoping is that it doesnt go into this whole alternate trek universe thing but that it somehow delves into them finding a new way to explore space
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FF_Redux posted...

Where did they end up? Or when??!

Welcome to the world of cliffhangers, lol.

Probably parallel universe (mirror universe) as seen by the ship literally splitting in two (quantum superposition, and as suggested by engineer dude's earlier scene of mirror world.

From a "canon" standpoint this lets them get very creative with the storyline and feature elements of other Star Treks without needing a drop of continuity. All in all it's very "convenient" since this means they can drop the entire klingon war arc and are set up in a brand new location/universe where they will obviously encounter some multi-episode conflict they'll get to resolve after several episodes only to, at the end at the season, probably do the exact same fucking thing and once again warp to god-knows-where and repeat until quality and viewership drop to execution levels. If they somehow start interacting with the Q continuum I am out.

On the plus side, lady admiral and klingon girl are now shipmates, and I suspect with engineer dude having spore-induced glaucoma he'll be having less screentime.
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Yeah but did you see those klingon titties? They looked like pointy Worfs.
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