If you liked this article, please like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and please consider Donating to keep the blog going
It seems these days that alternate realities and parallel universes are everywhere. That’s actually kind of to be expected as nerdy media becomes more and more of a dominant genre. Back in the day geek material struggled for mainstream relevance unless it stripped out as many of its big ideas as possible but these days people are making movies and shows out of Ant-Man and Dr. Strange. As such, digging into more complicated ideas like the Multiverse, pocket universes, or altered continuity are becoming more and more widespread.
The Flash has really embraced this idea with the Multiverse and Flashpoint, Legends of Tomorrow had its own altered universe episode, Stranger Things was built on a dimensional foundation, and Agents of SHIELD has found serious success with an altered continuity story set in a world where the bad guys won called ‘Agents of Hydra.’ As I’m eager to capitalize on this trend I thought I’d look back at hands down my favorite altered reality story, coming to us from the most hated Star Trek series of them all Star Trek: Enterprise- this is ‘In A Mirror Darkly.’
