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''[[Star Trek: Dark Mirror]]'' is a non-canon novel (not connected to the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]) written by [[Diane Duane]], set during ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', and it revisits the [[Mirror Universe]] from the original series.▼
▲''Star Trek: Dark Mirror'' is a non-canon novel (not connected to the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]) written by [[Diane Duane]], set during ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', and it revisits the [[Mirror Universe]] from the original series.
During a visit with a nomadic space fleet to pick up a Starfleet researcher, the USS Enterprise-D finds itself in the same [[Mirror Universe]] that Kirk visited in the episode "Mirror, Mirror". Worse, they find out that the mirror version Enterprise-D is working on the means to invade the Prime Universe.
It's not considered part of the novel verse canon as it
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* [[Agony Booth]]: Makes a proud return. They even have an improved miniature version for on the spot [[Cold-Blooded Torture]].
* [[Alternate History]]: History diverged sometime during the writing of the [[Iliad]], and morality inverted from that point onwards. The contemporary Star Trek canon even begins with an altered version of the Eugenics Wars in which [[The Bad Guy Wins|Khan Noonien Singh was the victor]].
* [[Bigger Is Better]]: A practical version of this trope is used on Mirror Universe vessels, since bigger ships means more space for more powerful engines and weapons.
* [[Broad Strokes]]: The story of this novel is hard to reconcile with any Mirror Universe depiction set from the DS9-era onward, where the backstory differs considerably, and at best can merely be considered an alternate universe take on the original Mirror Universe, in which the Terran Empire never fell.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: Prime Universe Picard is horrified to find out a literature variant of this has occurred to the works of [[William Shakespeare]] and [[Plato]]. All the works of Shakespeare where any character exhibited a hint of decency have been rewritten or those parts are omitted. Plato's work now argues for a dictatorship instead of a republic, by the alterations of some lines in the original.
* [[Doppleganger Squad]]: The Terran Empire is intending to weaponize this as a tactic against the Prime Universe. {{spoiler|Specifically, by capturing the prime universe Enterprise-D, killing and replacing it's crew, then doing a 1:1 replacement of all crew from their universe to infiltrate the prime universe Federation}}.
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