10 Scrapped Ideas For Star Trek: Enterprise Season 5

8. An Entire Season In The Mirror Universe

Star Trek In A Mirror Darkly
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The fourth-season two-parter In A Mirror, Darkly was a brilliantly fun story set entirely in the Mirror Universe. It served as both a prequel to Mirror, Mirror and as a sequel to The Tholian Web, depicting what exactly happened to the original USS Defiant. All of the cast got a chance to have fun with their characters, though the ending, which sees Hoshi take control of the Defiant and crown herself Empress of the Terran Empire was a tantalizing way to leave the audience wanting more.

Manny Coto had two ideas on where to go with this. The first, which was common to both, was that Hoshi's story needed to be followed up. The audience knew that by Kirk's time, the Terrans and Vulcans were the unquestioned rulers of the Alpha Quadrant, sporting technology identical to the Defiant, so the stage was set to show Hoshi's bloody rise to power.

Another idea, one that would have taken the above and gone berserk with it, was to have an entire season devoted entirely to the Mirror Universe. In a way, Star Trek: Discovery would borrow this idea, with almost half of its first season spent over there.

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