In the episode "Picard Trek: Picard" "Penance" (March 10, 2022)Admiral Picard (Patrick Stewart) visits the "Impulse Cosmic Deity" for the first time in decades. Q, for reasons, decided to test Picard's clever and determination and orchestrated a little play for the admiral. Q Whisks Picard in a parallel universe in which the country manages the wicked, xenophobic, genocidal tyranny. Picard reveals that his in parallel is the General General who keeps the skulls of his enemies in his day and that all earth's resources are now committed to finding and killing other species. It's pretty dark. Picard reveals that this evil timetable began sometime in 2024, and collects its compatriots to travel back and time to understand what was going wrong.

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Iousbopitous, the Tyrant's Tyrant in Picard is not the same as the timeframe of the mirror that is seen repeatedly during Star Trek. The Mirror Timeline was named after the first appearance in the original series "Mirror, Mirror" (October 6, 1967), an episode in which several companies' crew members, thanks to the Ionian Storm, were accidentally reduced to a parallel universe where everyone was evil. In that universe, Spack (Leonard Nimoy) had a goat, the assassinations were a common occurrence, and abuses were punished by trips to a stand with agony. The mirror timeline was re -examined several times during the "Starvala Trek" then, including several times on "Deep Space Nine" and regularly through "Discovery".

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Of course, in the light of the Picard's Tyrant, paths (who want to overcome things) can start thinking: if Q created the Typrian timetable - or at least he gave Picard open access - could he do the same with the timeframe of the mirror? After all, both are a great way to test the ethics of those in the "main" timeline. Was the mirror universe another test?

The first time Trekis saw P, was in the "Pilot" Star Trek: the next generation "," Meeting in Farpoin "(September 28, 1987). In the episode, Q said that mankind engaged in the galaxy far enough, thank you, noting that people were, for most of their history, violent, heat vision. Picard announces that people are now calm and enlightened, so he decided to test them. The events of "Meeting in Farpoin" were supposed to be the first test. Q will return to the following episodes to extend the test. Mankind had to prove that they would not return to tyranny the moment they notice - that they were not motivated to adore autocrats just because, let's say, grocery prices began to rise.

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In that light, Someone can be able to see the mirror universe As a multidimensional experiment conducted by Q. Perhaps Q created this universe (or at least subtly motivated its evolution) by allowing humanity to monitor its basic instincts towards dominance and violence. Q knows how terrible humanity can be, because it has created what was essentially a "control group" of people who rely on torture and evil. When he heard Picard talking about how enlightened mankind, P was infinitely skeptical, because he was just a pious leader of his fingers away from the version of mankind who wanted to torture, conquer and dominate.

Of course, in the episode "Deep Space Nine" Crossover "(16.05.1994), it will be revealed that, in the mirror timeframe, mankind will eventually be overthrown. A wicked version of Major Keira (Nana Visitor) It inspired a powerful military alliance among the cards, the clingons and the Bayrani, forming an empire even more powerful than the country. They conquered the earth and enslaved all people. Perhaps that was the end result of Q.. If mankind was dedicated to conquest, the only logical end result would be won.

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Human characters in "crossover" are cowardly, cowardly and do not have the width of the range to perform evil over others. They were brought to hell. And, of course, if the "evil" mankind was conquered in the universe of the mirror, but it would no longer use it as its control group. "Crossover", not coincidentally, aired simultaneously with the latest episodes of "Next Generation". Perhaps Picard's appearance in the "Next Generation" finals was a way of "re -entering" his test of mankind's ethics. He no longer had a "wicked" version of mankind to prove his point, so the trial had to have new parameters. It would also explain why Q had to create a second mirror -like universe in "Star Trek: Picard". With one version of the "evil" mankind took care, he just created another.

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The theory "Q created the mirror universe" also deals with Trek's popular theory that Trelane (William Campbell), a foreigner of the original series of episode "The Squire of Gothos", was an adolescent member of Q Continuum. Trelane was obsessed with mankind, specifically its many historical wars. However, Trelane accidentally watched the Earth for many centuries in his past and assumed that the whole planet was still involved in global European colonialism ... something he thought was pleasant and fun barbaric. When Trelane meets Kirk, he is disappointed to see that mankind has evolved into a peaceful society. In the end, it will be revealed that Trelane is a child who considered mankind as a game. At the end of the episode, he was warned by his "parents", shown as dazzling balls of light.

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Trelane is just as dirty as Q, leading some "next generation" fans to set that it is really one of the same species. This theory was semi-confirmed by (non-canonic) Peter David's novel about "Q-Squared". And if Trelane was young P. Looking at the people of their highest barbaric ... could he look at the mirror universe by mistake?

As Trekkies know from the initial loans to the episode "Star Trek: Enterprise" in the mirror, dark "(April 22, 2005), the mirror timeline split from ordinary human evolution in 1705, when the first time was built in the HMS. The initial loans to the episode to match the wicked tone of tyrannical humanity. Colonization.

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If we accept that timetable of the mirror universe, then Trelane may not look at the earth's past, but to the Mirror Universe. Because if Trelane was q, he would have access to ethical experiments conducting continuum Q and every "evil" parallel universe they were overseen. Perhaps Trelane's obsession with Earth's habits of conquest came from his random look at the Questration of Q.

Of course, that theory will make the "mirror, mirror" less interesting. It is more thematically visible to note that mankind is evil and tyrannical independently - and that the far stranger will make assumptions for us - without the need Q to create a whole wicked universe. Perhaps the theory "Q created the mirror universe" only has water if we leave Trlane of it.

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