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A review by tigercrossin
Dark Mirror by Diane Duane
3.0
I’m a bit torn on this one honestly. I absolutely loved the tng mirror universe comics and what they decided to do with that universe. They expanded on it in such a cool way, it felt like a natural progression from the original mirror universe episodes. This kind of feels like it’s trying to replicate the original feeling of the tos “mirror mirror” episode very specifically, which isn’t always bad but I feel like it holds it back in a lot of ways. The action scenes are still really fun to read, especially that Wesley and Picard one, I really liked that, but overall it’s kind of drowned out by a little too much technobabble for me (which I understand is a huge part of trek but I just couldn’t get into it here). I will always enjoy seeing the mirror universe, it’s one of my favourite parts of trek, so overall I would say I had fun with it, but I’m glad to be moving on to a new trek book after this.
On a personal note I guess, Data is my favourite character and I LOVE his mirror universe counterpart from the comics, so I was really mad at his dismissal in this book. He only has a few scenes and is relegated to a very minor side character, being completely removed from the mirror universe all together. He is written off about halfway through the book in a very nonchalant (kind of lazy tbh) way, and after that I kind of lost my drive to read it. I understand that this is super subjective though so don’t take this too seriously, it was just kind of clear to me that the author has a few specific favourite characters that she wanted to write about.
On a personal note I guess, Data is my favourite character and I LOVE his mirror universe counterpart from the comics, so I was really mad at his dismissal in this book. He only has a few scenes and is relegated to a very minor side character, being completely removed from the mirror universe all together. He is written off about halfway through the book in a very nonchalant (kind of lazy tbh) way, and after that I kind of lost my drive to read it. I understand that this is super subjective though so don’t take this too seriously, it was just kind of clear to me that the author has a few specific favourite characters that she wanted to write about.