Star Trek: The Mirror Universe Saga

The Wrath of Khan is my favorite Star Trek movie, due to the fact that it ties in so well with the original series. After reading STAR TREK: THE MIRROR UNIVERSE SAGA, I can say that this story should have received the cinematic treatment as well, for the same reasons. THE MIRROR UNIVERSE SAGA collects the "New Frontiers" storyline from issues # 9 - 16 of DC's Star Trek series (waaaaay back in '84, remember?), where Captain Kirk and the members of the Enterprise crew re-encounter their evil Terran Empire doubles from the original series show "Mirror, Mirror". This time, however, the stakes are much higher - the Empire's planned invasion of our universe. Author Mike Barr constructs the story to occur between the events of the movies ST3: The Search for Spock and ST4: The Voyage Home. I cannot say if the Mirror Universe Saga fits perfectly with regular continuity, but I can say that the story was good enough for me to enjoy it, despite my not being a huge Trekkie. The plot is a logical extension of the TV episode (20 years later), explaining what happened after its conclusion and providing more information on the state of affairs in the Mirror Universe. The dialogue is written convincingly enough to where I had no problem imagining the actors voicing the actual lines. As you can guess, the plot involves quite a bit of mistaken identity, but Barr handles it well. The art by Tom Sutton and Ricardo Villagran is quite detailed and captures the look of the characters well. Unfortunately, it seems that it wasn't clear enough for the colorist, who obviously was confused between Captain Kirk and the alternate David Marcus, as well as between Lt. Uhura and Marlena. Try a little harder next time... The introduction by ST novel author A. C. Crispin is the worst part of the book. It's not really so much an intro as it is slobbering praise of Star Trek's greatness. There's no background on the Mirror Universe, no discussion of the story's popularity or evil Spock's fashionable goatee... nothing. In fact, this intro could be used as generic copy to be placed at the beginning of every Star Trek novel or comic. I would think that someone so intimately involved with Star Trek could do better.

This is the 8 part Mirror Uiverse saga story that was written and published by DC Comics in 1984. After the release of the movie " Star Trek III: the Search for Spock, Paramount Pictures gave the comic book license to DC comics to continue the stories after Star Trek III. This particular Story is the sequel to the Star Trek classic episode "Mirror, Mirror" Kirk and crew meet their counteparts from the other Star Trek Demension were the Federation is called the Empire and instead of space exploration the Empire's main goal is to conquer the Universe. This is a wonderful, well written sequel to that episode. And it looks more contemporary since this story takes place during the original Star Trek movies. Written by Mike W. Barr, Tom Sutton and the rest of the DC comics crew. This is one tale not to be missed by comic book fans, Sci-Fi fans, and Classic Star Trek fans a-like. Get it! If you find this out of print book it is definitly worth saving as Star Trek memorablia.

This is the best of the DC comic series in the early eighties. It don't get better than this. Kirk takes the Excelsior to battle his evil counterpart in the Mirror Universe! Romulans, Klingons, a Spock double.....this one's got it all! This would have made a terrific film.

This is a good book to have even if you have all of the issues of the comic series.The whole story is right here,and there is no need to change books to finish out the story.The Mirror Universe idea was a great one,taken from one of the best episodes of the TV series.Anyone who liked the idea in "Mirror,Mirror" has a great read ahead in this story since it carries on after the other story.The idea was put out for a long time that the Mirror Universe crew was 'NOT DONE YET' with the ideas put out in the TV episode.This is worth the look and well worth the time.