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In the beginning of the mirror universe episode of Enterprise zephram Cochran shoots the Vulcan ambassador and steals his tech forming the beginnings of the Terran Empire.
Zephram Cochran was a drunk in a dystopian post war world where you don't trust strangers. My new head cannon is that the events of ST first contact are a pre destination paradox.
In other words: telling Cochran that his invention creates a Utopia, and preparing him for the vulcans' arrival is what set humanity on the path to the federation.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. Whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based. If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened you don't deserve to wear that uniform.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "The First Duty"
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The timeline where the Enterprise doesn’t interfere ends with “population 9 billion; all Borg.”
But... if the Enterprise-E doesn't go back in time, then the Borg sphere isn't destroyed (First Contact), leaving wreckage including drones frozen in the Arctic to be discovered by researchers in 2153, who are then assimilated along with their ship, which is then used to broadcast to the Borg in the Delta Quadrant, who will receive the message 200 years later (ENT: Regeneration), and then send the Borg cube towards the Alpha Quadrant that the Enterprise-D encounters in 2365 (TNG: Q Who).
It's a paradox: The Enterprise-E has to go back in time to stop the Borg from assimilating 2063 Earth, but if they're not there then the chronologically oldest event — the destruction of the sphere depositing drones in the Arctic — never happens and the Borg never get word that they should come check out this side of the galaxy and thus never would've gone back in time in the first place.
Star Trek never resolves how paradoxes like this work out — it happened and that's how it is.
There is no point of divergence, because its not an alternate timeline. The Mirror Universe is a literally a parallel (in every sense of the word) dimension.
Exactly. Disco establishes that the Mirror Universe is a different quantum reality, not an alternate timeline. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that Disco isn't an alternate timeline and their Mirror Universe is a parallel universe instead... But that's a different question.
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The mu became the mu at its Big Bang, same as prime did.
The Terran Empire predates the events of First Contact, so that means the MU does as well.
No. We're still before Divergence assuming:
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The eugenics wars are all super hush hush and we actually don't know what actually is happening.
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It is a Temporal divergence and not an actual parallel universe. Compare Kelvin to Prime for what I mean, some event has shifted the two universes despite being the same people at that time period.
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The "facts" about the Terran Empire are greatly exaggerated for political purposes, like how it's actually the continuation of the Roman Empire, how all books have been altered (save Shakespeare) and more.
If all of these are true, then Divergence is round about the time of First Contact, either by Cochrane or Terra Firma.
someone doesn't understand timelines vs. universes. Different things. Yes, you can use the word "universe" to describe a different timeline. No, they aren't the same thing here.
My new head cannon also says that universe is the same as timeline
I hate temporal mechanics...
Finally!
I believe this was disproven by MU episodes of ENT.
No. TOS through Nemesis are the timeline where the Borg and Ent-E crew didn't interfere. Enterprise takes place in an alternate a timeline created by the events of First Contact. The episode "Regeneration" makes this explicit and canon.
