Star Trek: Discovery Co-Creator Reveals Original Plan For Mirror Universe

Star Trek: Discoverymemorably pulled off a shocking twist in its first season, with the U.S.S Discovery’s captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) turning out to be an evil doppelganger from the Mirror Universe. Things got complicated in the latter episodes of the run, but ultimately Lorca ended up dead and the Mirror Georgiou remained in the Prime Universe – ahead of her own spinoff show.

As fans of the series will know, though, season 1 changed a lot over the course of production due to co-creator Bryan Fuller leaving the project. It turns out the re-introducution of the Mirror Universe was one of his concepts, but he originally intended to use it to explore a bold, nuanced theme.

Here’s what Fuller told Robert Meyer in a recent episode of his Robservations YouTube show.

Fuller then harked back to a memorable moment in Voyager which really tapped into what he wanted to explore in Discovery.

Ultimately, Fuller’s plan was to kind of take the Sliding Doors approach to the concept of parallel universes and explore the enormous repercussions a tiny decision can have.

Someone could probably write a book on the production upheaval of the early days of Discovery. After Fuller left over creative differences, Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts took over for the remainder of season 1. However, they were fired early into season 2 due to going wildly over budget and for alleged abusive behavior towards the writers’ room. Alex Kurtzman has remained in charge ever since, with Michelle Paradise joining him for season 3.

Star Trek: Discovery is due to return to CBS All Access for its aforementioned third season later this year.

Source: Robservations

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