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The Terran Empire
In General
A Mirror Universe version of The Federation who embraced the worst aspects of humanity and became savage conquerors instead of peaceful explorers.
- Absolute Xenophobe: All alien species in the galaxy were subject to annihilation, enslavement, or being eaten for a delicacy. And those are the lucky ones.
- Adaptational Modesty: Instead of wearing Stripperiffic versions of Federation outfits, the entirety of the Empire is covered up.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: They're absolutely horrific human beings compared to their Prime Counterparts, but there's no question they made a name for themselves here. Georgiou is the badass Emperor who can casually kick ass and play her foes like a fiddle, Burnham was her right hand up until she staged a coup, Stamets had the Mycelial Network under his thumb, and Tilly (or rather "Killy") made casual slaughtering look easy.
- Apocalypse How: They pulled a Class X on Qo'Nos by dropping a bomb into its core and wiping off the galactic map.
- Call-Back: The Defiant from "The Tholian Web" and "In a Mirror Darkly" is still under the Empire's control over a century from when it wound up in the Mirror Universe.
- Cool Starship: The I.S.S. Charon serves as the Terran Empire's flagship, and that thing is massive. It's basically a human-made version of "The Doomsday Machine", and has a power core the size of a small sun.
- Doomed by Canon: No matter what happened here, the Terran Empire was destined to fall thanks to Mirror!Spock disbanding it and a joint Klingon-Cardassian-Bajorian alliance wiping out the rest. It's even noted in the 32nd century that all contact with that reality was lost.
- The Empire: Earth had single-handedly managed to take over the entire galaxy within the span of two centuries, wiping out anyone who got in their way.
- Fantastic Racism: Alien species are considered inferior to humans. Hell, the entire conflict between Lorca and Georgiou is caused because the former thought the latter wasn't being racist to them enough.
- Flanderization: The Terrans of TOS and Deep Space Nine were violent savages to be sure, but nowhere near as depraved, xenophobic, and Starscreamy as they are here. Oh, and they also eat aliens. Mirror!Spock was lucky he was still alive.
- Klingon Promotion: To those who seek positions of power, or to destroy those they perceive as weak in the Empire's eyes, death is the only answer. Succeed, and the rewards will be greater than anything. Fail, and you will suffer a Fate Worse than Death.
- The Starscream: The most loyal subjects in the Empire could very well be planning to stab you in the back the first chance they get.
- To Serve Man: They eat aliens as a delicacy. Kelpian ganglia is apparently a popular choice.
The Emperor
Emperor Philippa Georgiou
"Don't you bow before your Emperor?"
Played by: Michelle Yeoh
The ruthless and xenophobic leader of the Terran Empire. Georgiou is a secretive figure whose identity is known only to a few.
- Ambiguously Evil: In season 2 she is depicted working - quite effectively, we might note - for Section 31. Her motives for aligning with them are unclear (it would be entirely plausible that she's with them purely because she likes the adrenaline rush), but her mission is to maintain L'Rell's leadership of the Klingon Empire, which in turn seems the likeliest path to avoiding a resurgence of war. It's not clear at this point whether she's a Token Evil Teammate, but she is given a somewhat less ruthless characterisation than she was in the first season.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work:
- When Michael declares that she won't kill Lorca, Georgiou responds by stabbing him in the heart and tossing his body in the Charon's reactor.
- This trope is also why Cornwell engineers a Dead Person Impersonation and Tyrant Takes the Helm below — let the Terran do that which Starfleet will not.
- In season 2, she's the one who ultimately defeats Control by trapping Leland in a magnetic chamber and slowly draining all the nanites out of his body. She explicitly does it slowly because she wants to hear him scream.
- Becoming the Mask: She starts to show signs of this over the course of Season 2 - she refuses to do anything that would hurt or kill Michael, and even seems to warm up to Tyler.
- Combat Sadomasochist: She gets her jollies watching Control-Leland get gruesomely ripped apart by the magnetic effects in the Reaction Cube, and also considers Zareh's Agony Beam gun to be "foreplay" when she's hit by it.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Admiral Cornwell has Emperor Georgiou impersonate Captain Georgiou, claiming that she was captured by the Klingons at the Battle of the Binary Stars and was rescued by Discovery on a classified mission.
- Dragon Lady: A cruel empress played by Michelle Yeoh. Her opulent finery strongly resembles those of contemporary Asian royalty to boot.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- For all of her brutality, she claims that she loved her universe's version of Michael Burnham, and she can't bring herself to kill the Prime version when she has the chance.
- Gabrielle Burnham, who has seen her in possibly hundreds of timelines, states she knows Georgiou loves Prime-Michael like a daughter and has even seen Georgiou sacrifice herself for her.
- Even Evil Has Standards: She is actually disturbed by Mirror Michael's actions, being left speechless when her daughter tells her she mutilated Kepler 174-d's artists. Shortly after, when Michael tries to kill Mirror Saru, Philippa screams a Big "NO!" and stops her from doing so, retaking her ownership of him. This serves to demonstrate how living in the Prime universe has influenced her.
- Evil Virtues: Love, resourcefulness and valor.
- Expy:
- The head of a xenophobic empire, destroyed a planet (or several) and wears a lot of gold, including a golden wreath. Emperor Georgiou is totally the God-Emperor of Man.
- A genocidal warlord is used to fight the Klingons because Starfleet lacks the necessary savagery and military mindset. Sounds an awful lot like Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Khan from Star Trek Into Darkness.
- Also for Intendant Kira: A ruthless Depraved Bisexual Mirror Universe dictator who is a complete antithesis of her Prime-Universe counterpart, she loses her power and consequently sides with anyone who will ensure her survival.
- Foil: To Sarek. She adopted her universe's Burnham the same way Sarek did and she too had trouble instilling certain values in her child.
- Graceful Loser: She calmly accepts what she believes be her impending death at the hands of the Lorca loyalists, though Michael saves her. Later, when Michael demands that she either steps down from her plan to blow up Qo'noS or shoots her, Georgiou, after thinking it over, realizes that she cannot do the latter and calmly concedes her defeat to Michael.
- Heel–Face Turn: Possibly, albeit downplayed. She is depicted as an agent of Section 31 in season 2. Section 31 is itself often morally ambiguous, but in this case their aim is to maintain L'Rell's leadership of the Klingon Empire and in turn avoid restarting the war.
- Honey Trap: Sleeps with two Orions to get information.
- In Spite of a Nail: Like the regular universe, she still has a mother/daughter bond with her version of Michael Burnham. The only difference is that this version made it more official and actually raised Burnham.
- Indispensable Scoundrel: Emperor Georgiou ends up in the prime universe where humans are equal partners in a multilateral peacekeeping organization rather than a race of genocidal conquerors. Maximum security prison would be the best place for her, but she swaps universes in the middle of a galactic war at a time that makes her cutthroat tactics invaluable. She then spends a stint in Section 31, the less shiny part of Starfleet. When the Discovery crew lands in a future where the Federation has fallen, her ability to intimidate faction leaders into backing down is very useful.
- Karma Houdini: Emperor Georgiou was a brutal and genocidal tyrant who attempted to commit genocide against the prime universe Klingons, but Michael and Starfleet agree to let her go free in return for handing over the detonator to the bomb that would have destroyed Qo'noS. In season 2 she is shown working for Section 31. It's possible this is representative of at least a mild Heel–Face Turn in her character, as she seems to be quite adamant about maintaining L'Rell's leadership of the Klingon Empire, which in turn seems to be necessary for peace. However, her motives are as yet unclear. Section 31 is itself often depicted in a morally ambiguous fashion, so her alignment with them fits her character arc quite well.
- Kneel Before Zod: She's mildly annoyed when Burnham (who's having a Heroic BSoD at the sight of her long-lost captain) doesn't immediately bow before her. Her reaction to Saru (an alien) not doing the same is significantly less mild, to the point where she nearly shoots him.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: She's a monstrous conqueror and racist, but Lorca tried to overthrow her because she's not racist enough.
- Light Is Not Good: The colours of the Terran Empire are black and gold and it seems that the higher the rank, the more gold the officers wear. The Emperor takes the cake.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: Georgiou enjoys them greatly, as her reaction when Control!Leland boarded Discovery was to ask for Nhan's help to make him scream. She succeeded despite the beating she took from him, to the point she giggled like a child while Control screamed in rage and despair.
- Mutual Kill: She's fatally wounded when she stabs Mirror Burnham through the gut with her sword, but gets a dagger to the jugular in return.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: A ruling, Asian woman styling herself emperor, who attained her throne by being more ruthless than anybody else and kept it with strong leadership and governance. Wu Zetian would be proud.
- Odd Friendship: Seems to develop this with Tyler after they both start working for Section 31.
- Orcus on His Throne: Averted. When Burnham doesn't destroy the rebel base on Harlak as ordered, Georgiou personally takes her flagship to the planet and levels the entire continent.
- Parental Substitute: Burnham was not just her subordinate, she was the Emperor's adopted daughter.
- Pragmatic Villainy: She only acts mercifully to her slave worlds, to make them less likely to rebel after having dealt with their ever-increasing revolts.
- Alternatively, Georgiou may have genuinely become more humane, but needs to present this in terms that would be more acceptable to Terran sensibilities.
- Put on a Bus: In "Terran Firma", Georgiou is fatally wounded and suffering from Temporal Sickness and has to travel back into the past to survive her condition.
- Rags to Royalty: According to the ballad that Mirror Stamets recites, she was an unknown peasant girl before her rise to the throne.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: She's the top lady, and a stunningly skilled fighter capable of gunning down whole units of soldiers with ease and sparring equally with Lorca.
- Redemption Equals Death: Subverted. After killing Lorca, Georgiou decides to hold off his minions long enough for Michael to escape. Georgiou figures that, since she'll never be able to reclaim her throne after being toppled from it, she might as well die saving the closest person she has to a daughter. However, Michael manages to get her caught in Discovery's transporter beam and brings her with her to the prime universe.
- Replacement Goldfish: She and Michael have this issue about each other to some extent. Georgiou makes it clear that she is not The Good Captain that Michael knew and that treating her as such is a bad plan, but nevertheless she herself can't kill Michael for similar reasons.
- Sex Goddess: When she has a threesome with a pair of Orions, they are both amazed at Georgiou's sexual prowess and even joke they shouldn't charge her.
- She Is the King: Georgiou is a woman, but she uses the title "Emperor". (
In Chinese history, most women who held the title of Empress were more wives or concubines of a ruling Emperor, but Wu Zetian, who did rule in her own name, was sometimes called Emperor.) - Shut Up, Kirk!: Georgiou dismisses Michael's explanation for the rescue as some kind of attempt to effect a Heel–Face Turn and says instead that Michael was trying to atone for not saving "her" Georgiou—and that it doesn't work that way because they're not the same.
- Stranger in a Familiar Land: She gets hit by this upon returning to her own time in the Mirror Universe; her time in the prime universe has left her with an unexpected appreciation for life and what the future can be.
- Temporal Sickness: After jumping to the distant future with Discovery, she starts suffering from a double-whammy: not only are her molecules out of their proper time, but out of their proper universe. Either one on its own is no big deal, but both are causing her body to deteriorate as her molecules try to shift in two directions. This isn't helped by the fact that, nearly a millennium later, the two universes are a lot farther apart than in the 23rd century, exacerbating the effect. She even starts to experience involuntarily Intangibility as her condition deteriorates. She's eventually forced to return to the past to maintain cohesion.
- Troll: Once she's working for Section 31, it seems she can't help but amuse herself by getting under Michael's skin, especially in situations where there are other people present not cleared to know her real identity, limiting Michael's ability to react. Tilly is another occasional target. Eventually it's pretty clear she enjoys being The Gadfly to pretty much every Prime universe Starfleet officer she can get away with.
- Token Evil Teammate: Has slipped into this role by the second half of Season 2, when she is fighting alongside everyone else against Control.
- Try to Fit That on a Business Card: The Emperor has quite an extensive list of titles:Maddox: Lords of the Empire, privileged guests, all hail her Most Imperial Majesty, Mother of the Fatherland, Overlord of Vulcan, Dominus of Qo'noS, Regina Andor. All hail the Emperor, Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponiusnote Centarius.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: Cornwell places her in command of Discovery during the final assault on Qo'noS so she can oversee the complete devastation of the Klingon homeworld.
- Villainous BSoD: In "Die Trying", when she's interrogated by Kovich the historian in Federation Headquarters, he tells her that the Mirror Universe started to massively diverge from the main one shortly after she left, and that all crossings between both universes stopped over 500 years ago. This shocks her so much she stops smiling completely. When Michael reunites with her, she's completely silent and with a Thousand-Yard Stare. She quickly regains her composure once she realizes Michael's there, as Terrans don't like showing their moments of weakness.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Georgiou makes a point of noting she's a Terran, and thus by definition motivated purely by self-interest and can't be relied on to have good motives. Gabrielle Burnham, however, who has seen Georgiou in many alternate Prime timelines, insists she's a far better person than she allows others, or herself, to believe.
- You Can't Go Home Again: When 'Carl' deposits her back in the Mirror Universe, her time around Michael and Starfleet have caused just enough of a morality shift that she's too soft-hearted for the rabid psychos around her to tolerate.
Commanding Officers
Captain Michael Burnham
Captain Michael Burnham
Played by: Sonequa Martin-Green
Former captain of the I.S.S. Shenzhou. She is presumed to have been killed by her universe's Lorca, but her body has not been found. The prime universe Michael Burnham impersonates this version of herself and takes back command of the Shenzhou.
- Adopted into Royalty: Courtesy of Emperor Georgiou.
- Antagonistic Offspring: She joined Lorca's coup against her foster mother Georgiou.
- Ax-Crazy: She's prone to Suddenly Shouting at minor annoyances and goes Laughing Mad during her Motive Rant, complete with a really wide Slasher Smile. She also blinded and de-handed a family of artists so that their works would become more valuable (since they now can't create any more).
- Evil Prince: Wants her mother's throne and her head.
- In Spite of a Nail: Just like her regular counterpart, Burnham had a hard time fitting in with an adoptive parent's cultural norms. Her adoptive mother tried to instill Terran values in her, but she never fully grasped them. And ended up betraying Georgiou.
- Kicked Upstairs: In her own words, she was the master of the trash heap Georgiou "rescued" her from on Terra, and one of the main reasons she joined the coup against the Emperor was because she felt crushed under her mother's shadow. Lorca offered her a way out.
- Makeup Is Evil: Wears black lipstick and it enhances her evil demeanour.
- Never Found the Body: Her shuttle was destroyed by Mirror Lorca, but her body was never found. This ambiguity allows the prime-universe Burnham to pull a Dead Person Impersonation and pose as her counterpart.
- Red Baron: She is known as "The Butcher of the Binary Stars" for slaughtering thousands of Klingons.
- The Sociopath: Notable in that she makes Lorca, Killy and The Emperor look perfectly sane by comparison.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Joined Lorca's coup attempt because she is resentful that Emperor Georgiou raised her above her station from "the trash heap."Mirror!Burnham: I was the master of that trash heap!
- Unseen Character: Not seen in person in season one, although whether or not she was Killed Offscreen is unclear. We finally meet her via Georgiou's Mental Time Travel in the season three episode, "Terra Firma, Part One".
- Wife Husbandry: According to Emperor Georgiou, Lorca was grooming her to become his lover.
Captain Sylvia Tilly
Captain Sylvia "Killy" Tilly
Played by: Mary Wiseman
The captain of the I.S.S. Discovery and a brutal war criminal. She and her ship were sent to the prime universe when the U.S.S. Discovery was sent to the Mirror Universe.
- Blood Knight: Even by Terran Empire standards, she has a reputation for being especially bloodthirsty and brutal. According to the Emperor, Tilly participated in the conquest of Betazed and the destruction of Mintaka III.
- The Dragon: In practice she was this. She informed the Emperor of the plot that Lorca and Michael were planning against her.
- The Dreaded: Mirror Connor is unwilling to cross her, acceding to her demands when Cadet Tilly (posing as her) makes it clear that she won't tolerate his excuses. The fact that the Emperor has fond memories of her speaks volumes.
- Killed Offscreen: "The War Without, The War Within" reveals that the I.S.S. Discovery was destroyed shortly after crossing dimensions, presumably taking "Captain Killy" with it.
- Klingon Promotion: Became captain by murdering her superior officer.
- Red Baron: "The Slayer of Sorna Prime", "The Witch of Wurna Minor", and "Captain Killy".Saru: Captain 'Killy'? Well that's not very clever.
- Undying Loyalty: In the Terra Firma two-parter, she remains loyal to Georgiou, even after she attempts reforms that turn a lot of people away from her.
Captain Danby Connor
Captain Danby Connor
Played by: Sam Vartholomeos
The captain of the I.S.S. Shenzhou after his universe's Michael Burnham's presumed death.
- Assassin Outclassin': His attempt to kill Michael fails and she kills him instead.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: He prefaces his attempt on Michael's life with a long monologue about how he needs to make the crew fear him, and that he finally knows how to do it, that tips her off. If he'd just whipped out his blade and gutted her, she would have been caught completely off-guard.
- Butt-Monkey: Gets killed in short order, just like his prime-universe counterpart. Where his prime counterpart's death is treated as a tragedy, this Connor's death is treated with a standing ovation by the crew.
- Driven by Envy: As much as his desire to keep command, it's his inferiority to Burnham in the eyes of the crew that drives him to kill Burnham rather than relinquish his command.
- The Starscream: Tries (and fails) to kill Michael when she poses as her Mirror Universe counterpart and tries to take back command of the Shenzhou.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Finally gets some screentime after being a straightforward Red Shirt in the series premiere — and ends up killed by Burnham shortly after she boards the Shenzhou to impersonate her mirror-universe counterpart.
Others
Commander Keyla Detmer
Keyla Detmer
Played by: Emily Coutts
The first officer of the I.S.S. Shenzhou. Since her Shenzhou was not destroyed (unlike its prime-universe counterpart), she does not have the cybernetic implants that her prime-universe counterpart does.
- The Dragon: To Captain Burnham.
- Number Two: Aboard the I.S.S. Shenzhou.
- Shoot Your Mate: When Georgiou goes back in time to avert the coup, Detmer helps Burnham prove her loyalty to the Emperor by gunning down former co-conspirators. Burnham stabs her to death as the final step of the loyalty test.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: One of the few known survivors of Discovery crew's little sojourn to the Mirror Universe, and would likely have been left in pole position to take over as captain of the Shenzhou following the disappearance of Burnham.
- Undying Loyalty: To Captain Burnham. When the latter is convinced to turn on her co-conspirators, Detmer happily assists her Captain with The Purge. This gets her killed, because the Emperor wants officers loyal to her, not to Burnham.
- You Are in Command Now: With Connor dead and the prime-universe Burnham having departed with Discovery, she is the highest-ranking officer left aboard the Shenzhou, though it's anyone's guess how long she can make it last.
Commander Joann Owosekun
Joann "Owo" Owosekun
Played by: Oyin Oladejo
The commander of Emperor Georgiou's honor guard and the security chief of the ISS Charon.
- Deader than Dead: Is vaporised by Lorca when he seized control of the Charon.
- Assuming that the comic series "Succession" is canon, this is ultimately subverted, as the comic reveals that Joann somehow survived and was aboard the ISS Shenzhou. In there's she ends up killed by Mirror Airiam when she takes over the ship.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When Mirror Rhys challenges her for her position as the Charon's security chief, she beats him to an inch of his life before Georgiou tells her to stop.
- Praetorian Guard: Is the leader of the one charged with protecting Emperor Georgiou.
- Undying Loyalty: Along with Tilly and "Saru," Joann is among the very few people in the whole Terran Empire who seemingly isn't a part of Lorca's coup attempt or out to get the Emperor in some way.
Lieutenant Paul Stamets
Lieutenant Paul Stamets
Played by: Anthony Rapp
Like his Prime Universe counterpart, Stamets is a researcher of the mycelial network, although this Stamets is assigned to the Emperor's flagship, the I.S.S. Charon, instead of the I.S.S. Discovery. He and his Prime Universe counterpart are able to meet within the network.
- Assassin Outclassin': Tried to stab Georgiou in the back in "Terra Firma, Part One" and ended up with a knife in his neck for his troubles. In this case, Georgiou is in the body of her past self through Mental Time Travel, so she has foreknowledge of the attempt. It's not clear how it went in the original timeline, but Stamets survived that version and ratted out Lorca afterward.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He betrayed Lorca to Emperor Georgiou during Lorca's original coup. Then when Lorca usurps control of the Charon, he immediately jumps back on Lorca's side, the alternative being immediate death.
- Hammy Herald: Recites a ballad in honor of the Emperor that positively gushes smarmy adoration. It doesn't end up saving his life.
- Karmic Death: Subverted. Lorca contemplates throwing him into the Charon's mycelial reactor as it would be poetic for a scientist to be killed by his own creation, but then Lorca declares that he hates poetry and has Landry shoot him in the back.
- Mad Scientist: Unlike Prime Stamets, who saw the mycelial network as a means of faster-than-light travel, Mirror Stamets has managed to weaponize it, allowing the I.S.S. Charon to destroy entire planets by drawing power from the network itself.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: His mycelial reactor, used to power the Charon, has been corrupting the mycelial network. According to the mycelial network's version of Culber, this could wipe out all life in The Multiverse if his creation isn't destroyed. Mirror Stamets knows this, and was looking for a solution before he wound up trapped in the network with Prime Stamets.
- Psychic Link: He and Prime Stamets are linked through the mycelial network.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Having already been betrayed once by Mirror Stamets, Lorca has him executed as soon as he's no longer useful.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Lorca has seized control of the Charon, he tells Mirror Stamets this and has him disintegrated.
Ellen Landry
Ellen Landry
Played by: Rekha Sharma
An imprisoned Terran Empire officer and an ally of that universe's Gabriel Lorca.
- The Dragon: To Mirror-Lorca in the absence of Mirror-Burnham.
- Evil Counterpart: To the prime universe's Landry; for all her counterpart's Fantastic Racism, Mirror-Landry is even worse.
- Oh, Crap!: Gets this reaction when realizing that the Charon's mycelial core is about to lose containment.
- Villainous Valor: Is quite loyal to the mirror-universe Gabriel Lorca.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Is killed when the I.S.S. Charon explodes. In the Alternate Timeline, she is ambushed and killed by Detmer and Burnham instead.
"Saru"
"Saru"
Played by: Doug Jones
A nameless Kelpien slave who serves as Burnham's personal attendant on the Shenzhou. Burnham names him after his prime universe counterpart.
- Androcles' Lion: The version Georgiou spends time with starts going through vahar'ai. She tells him the truth about it, and gets Undying Loyalty in return, Saru saving her when Mirror Michael turns on her again.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Burnham can't bring herself to abuse this Saru like her counterpart presumably did, which is probably why he leaps into action to save her from Tyler/Voq.
- Beware the Nice Ones: This Saru is servile and even more cowardly than his prime counterpart, but he is still incredibly strong and effortlessly saves Michael from Tyler/Voq.
- Never Given a Name: The Terrans do not give names to their Kelpien slaves. Saru's Mirror Universe version is no different. His mirror versions were given their main counterpart's name by Michael and Philippa, respectively.
- The Lost Lenore: "Terra Firma part 2" confirms his sister was culled when she started showing signs of vahar'ai.
- Took a Level in Badass: In "Terra Firma", thanks to the vahar'ai. He takes part in a firefight which results in a lot of death, but comes out the other end alive and uninjured. The Guardian of Forever implies that this version of Mirror Saru will become a great hero and save many lives.
I.S.S. Enterprise NCC- 1701
I.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
The former flagship of the Terran Empire, previously commanded by Captain Christopher Pike and James T. Kirk, she was discovered to have fled the Mirror Universe with refugees attempting to flee to the Prime Reality. While she became trapped in a pocket dimension, she was later found and retrieved by the crew of the Discovery.
- Ambiguous Situation: Unlike in our reality, where the Enterprise was lucky enough to have at least seven successors (A-G) follow her, it's not clear if the Terrans were able to produce any other legacy ships after her.
- Art Evolution: Like her Prime counterpart, she's given the Discovery-era redesign, both inside and out.
- Bait-and-Switch: It initially seems like Enterprise was still just another Terran warship, but Burnham and Book soon learn that she was used to get refugees over from the Terran Empire to Starfleet, all to seek a better life.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: Her Prime iteration was destroyed in 2285 over the Genesis Planet, making the Mirror Enterprise the only one of the two to survive.
- Dented Iron: Being abandoned for over 900 years did nothing to curtail her effectiveness, as she's still able to be flown by the time Burnham finds her. Those old Constitution class ships were built to last.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After spending over 900 years trapped in a pocket dimension, she's able to be retrieved and sent back to Starfleet for storage—presumably to be added to the Fleet Museum to join the NX-01, the A, and the D as living proof that history will never forget the name Enterprise. Ironically, this means she'll get to experience the posterity that her Prime iteration never got.
- Irony: Her Prime iteration was sacrificed to save Spock. This version managed to survive in spite of Mirror Spock.
- The Reveal: After her last (and only) appearance in "Mirror, Mirror", it was revealed in "Mirrors" that she had escaped from the hellish reality of the Mirror Universe with refugees attempting to escape to the Prime Universe. She herself became trapped in a pocket dimension, but the refugees managed to integrate themselves into Starfleet. Centuries later, she's found by Discovery and is pulled out of the rift, enabling her to be saved.
- Series Continuity Error: Her first appearance in nearly 60 years presents her in a 2250s era configuration rather than the more familiar TOS era configuration she bore in her first appearance. That said, it was likely more in budget to do so, as it would have been more expensive to rebuild the old sets rather than reuse the existing Strange New Worlds sets.
The Resistance
"The Firewolf"
Voq
Played by: Javid Iqbalnote
The leader of the resistance, an albino Klingon whose sense of honor compels him to unite the oppressed races of the galaxy to overthrow the Terran Empire.
- Blood Knight: This version of Voq is heroic, but like all Klingons, he relishes battle.
- Red Baron: Wears the pseudonym (or epithet) of "The Firewolf".
- Uncertain Doom: "The Wolf Inside" ends with the planet he was hiding on being bombarded by the Emperor. Mirror-Voq knew that an attack was coming, but whether he had time to escape is unclear.
Sarek
Sarek
Played by: James Frain
A Vulcan known as "The Prophet" for his great psychic powers.
- Mythology Gag: He has a goatee, like his son, who pioneered the use of goatees to signify being an evil twin.
- Uncertain Doom: "The Wolf Inside" ends with the planet he was hiding on being bombarded by the Emperor. The resistance knew that an attack was coming, but whether Mirror-Sarek had time to escape is unclear.
