The Multiverse: Difference between revisions

* Kirk, McCoy, and several others were transported to a [[Mirror Universe]] in the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of the original ''[[Star Trek]],'' in which a dark Earth-based empire ruled the galaxy. This was very much an [[In Spite of a Nail]] universe, since everything was much the same except the moral/ethical bent of the Federation's counterpart and its citizens.

** Years later, the cast of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' returned to this universe to discover that the revolution Kirk had encouraged its native Spock to foment had happened; unfortunately, its effects were not necessarily for the better.

*** ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' had an episode with Worf bouncing between various [[In Spite of a Nail]] alternate universes. According to [[Word of God]], this is distinct from the usual [[Mirror Universe]] though.

* ''Charlie Jade'': the Alphaverse (a [[Crapsack World]] ''and'' a [[Dystopia]]) is running out of clean water from its excessive pollution. So they use a portal to steal water from the [[utopia]]n Gammaverse. Charlie Jade ends up in the world in between—the Betaverse, a.k.a. our world—when things go wrong with the portal. Later on he finds out that the halucinations he's had through his life are actually {{spoiler|the result of his ability to travel between the verses}}, and he returns home before deciding he liked the Betaverse better than Alphaverse. Long story short, the whole series is based around this trope, including the cliffhanger season finale (from which the show didn't get renewed) that would have revealed a ''fourth'' universe.