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Bad Alias:
The difference between DF: Mirror Mirror and ST TOS: Mirror Mirror is that Kirk didn't encounter a world that was radically different because of his actions. And IaWL isn't about a choice of George's making everything different, but all his choices.
I think a major difference is that Mr. Potter will get his in the DF version much like the SNL "lost ending" version introduced by William Shatner. https://youtu.be/vw89o0afb2A?t=95.
Mira:
--- Quote ---The difference between DF: Mirror Mirror and ST TOS: Mirror Mirror is that Kirk didn't encounter a world that was radically different because of his actions. And IaWL isn't about a choice of George's making everything different, but all his choices.
I think a major difference is that Mr. Potter will get his in the DF version much like the SNL "lost ending" version introduced by William Shatner. https://youtu.be/vw89o0afb2A?t=95.
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Yeah, the premise that Jim describes about Harry's choice seems more IaWL than Mirror Mirror, but not quite IaWL either, because that really isn't about Jimmy Steward's choice either, he tries to commit suicide an angel named Clarence stops him. The Jimmy Steward character says the world
would be better if he had never been born.. Clarence grants his wish and he finds out what a positive impact he had on the world after all. Star Trek Mirror Mirror isn't about choices either, a transporter
accident throws Kirk and company into a parallel word the opposite of their own. The figure it out and in the end as they leave to go back Kirk suggests a choice for that world's Spock to murder that Kirk and things better.
morriswalters:
About the only thing Mirror, Mirror the Dresden title has in common with the Star Trek title is the idea of parallel dimensions, the TOS version was silly at the time and is still silly today. The City On The Edge Of Forever did the idea better. Much better. It is probably the best episode of TOS, period. And it deals precisely with the central point of Jim's deceit. How would the difference of one act by the protagonist change the world. Jim's Trek lore has been shown to be deficient. Hell the title even invokes Chicago in the Dresdenverse.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 12, 2020, 11:15:34 AM ---About the only thing Mirror, Mirror the Dresden title has in common with the Star Trek title is the idea of parallel dimensions, the TOS version was silly at the time and is still silly today. The City On The Edge Of Forever did the idea better. Much better. It is probably the best episode of TOS, period. And it deals precisely with the central point of Jim's deceit. How would the difference of one act by the protagonist change the world. Jim's Trek lore has been shown to be deficient. Hell the title even invokes Chicago in the Dresdenverse.
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Yes, it deals with the difference one act make, but not by deceit. Doctor McCoy accidentally injects himself with a drug that makes him trip severely, he transports down to a world they are
orbiting and goes through a time gate, everything in the present is changed and not for the better.
Kirk and Spock go back to the time to try and fix it. Turns out McCoy saves a women who's actions
seem good at the time changes everything not for the good. She was supposed to die in a car accident, of course Kirk falls in love with her, but has to stop and does, McCoy from saving her life and everything is put back the way it was.
morriswalters:
My Trek lore is up to snuff. I grew up in a SF deficient world and watched Trek every Sunday at 11 AM for years. However the central deceitconceit is how the event of either saving or letting one character die, completely changes the world, and in the case in point means that Star Fleet and the Federation never comes to pass. Kirk's question is, do I save Edith Keeler and destroy the future, or let her die and put things back as they occurred. It fits very closely the choice Harry makes in the passage I cited.
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