Mirror Universe (Star Trek) - Novels

Novels

Besides the various canon productions depicting the mirror universe, it was the basis of many novels and comics, however as each TV series made its own mark on the continuity of the Mirror Universe the histories and futures established for the universe in non-canon works began to contradict canon. Most recently several Mirror Universe novels have been published in the DS9 Relaunch series and the Star Trek: Mirror Universe series which integrate new non-canon stories into the complete canon Mirror Universe.

Primary continuity:

• Glass Empires
  • "Age of the Empress"
  • "The Sorrows of Empire"
  • "The Worst of Both Worlds"
• Obsidian Alliances
  • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent"
  • "Cutting Ties"
  • "Saturn's Children"
• Shards and Shadows
  • "Nobunaga"
  • "Ill Winds"
  • "Greater Good"
  • "The Black Flag"
  • "The Traitor"
  • "The Sacred Chalice"
  • "Bitter Fruit"
  • "Family Matters"
  • "Homecoming"
  • "A Terrible Beauty"
  • "Empathy"
  • "For Want of a Nail"
• "The Sorrows of Empire"
• "Three"
• "Warpath"
• "Fearful Symmetry"
• "The Soul Key"
• "Rise Like Lions"

In 2007, two collections of Mirror stories were published: the first involves Mirror Enterprise, TOS and TNG, the second features Mirror DS9, Voyager and New Frontier (the first time the mirror New Frontier has ever been seen). Dark Passions and the Shatner novels are not part of the canon as established in these stories.

The first of these collections, Glass Empires, comprises Age of the Empress (describing Hoshi Sato's reign as Empress); The Sorrows of Empire (Spock's career from immediately after Mirror Mirror, to the forging of the Alliance at the mirror-Khitomer Accords; explaining that the fall of the Empire was orchestrated by Spock, forcing the people of the empire to fight for their democracy to make sure the Empire never reformed); and The Worst of Both Worlds (in which Jean-Luc Picard, a Terran slave, must defend the Alliance against the even worse threat of the Borg).

The second, Obsidian Alliances, consists of The Mirror-Scaled Serpent (Chakotay's resistance cell encounters Neelix and Kes in the Badlands); Cutting Ties (in which M'k'nzy of Calhoun ("Muck"), a slave of the Romulan Empire, meets the mirror counterparts of the Excalibur crew); and Saturn's Children (in which Kira plots to regain the position of Intendant from Ro Laren, while O'Brien faces discontent in the Resistance). The latter of these ties into the Mirror-Kira's appearance in the Deep Space Nine relaunch series of novels.

The Star Trek: Stargazer novel Three, by Michael Jan Friedman also features the Mirror Universe. Since the Stargazer novels are set during Picard's first command, nearly 40 years before the DS9 crossover, it provides a glimpse of the Mirror Universe during the war between the Empire and the Alliance. In it, the counterpart of a member of the USS Stargazer crew crosses over from the ISS Stargazer to kidnap the Stargazer’s chief engineer Simeon for the human resistance against the Alliance. The captain of the ISS Stargazer is the counterpart of the USS Stargazer’s first officer, Gilaad Ben Zoma.

A further collection entitled Shards and Shadows was released in January 2009. David Mack is currently writing a new novel, Rise Like Lions, to conclude the current Mirror Universe storyline; this novel is expected to be released in November 2011.