Star Trek: Discovery
admonition : spoiler for Star Trek : Discovery Season 5 , Episode 5 - " Mirrors "
Summary
master James T. Kirk ’s ( William Shatner ) Starship Enterprise makes a shocking return inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 , but with a jaw - dropping turn - it ’s theISS Enterprise fromStar Trek : The Original Series ' " Mirror , Mirror"!Written by Johanna Lee & Carlos Cisco and directed by Jen McGowan , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 , " mirror , " sees Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) enter interdimensional space to follow Moll ( Eve Harlow ) and L’ak ( Elias Toufexis ) and the next clue to the Progenitors ' ancient treasure . What Burnham and Book never expected to find was the Mirror Universe ’s derelict ISS Enterprise .
Star Trek : Discoverypicked up the mantle of the Mirror Universe fromStar Trek : The Original Series , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , andStar Trek ; Enterprise . Discovery ’s time of year 1 ’s secret plan - switch Mirror Universe arc introduced Emperor Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) , who would enterStar Trek ’s Prime Universe and is now headlining Paramount+ ’s upcomingStar Trek : Section 31movie . Star Trek : Discoverydeepened the saga of the Mirror Universe , but the alternate reality ’s concluding appearance was inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 . Thanks toStar Trek ’s Temporal Wars , it ’s now insufferable for the Prime and Mirror Universes to cross over inStar Trek : Discovery ’s 32nd century .
soul who both clip travel and cross fromStar Trek ’s Prime and Mirror Universes sustain a deadly medical status , such as what happened to Emperor Georgiou .
As Burnham seek the universe ’s greatest treasure in Star Trek : Discovery season 5 , she ’ll need help from a boniface of novel and retort characters .
Star Trek: Discovery Brings Back Kirk’s Mirror Universe Starship Enterprise
The ISS Enterprise last appeared in Star Trek: The Original Series' “Mirror, Mirror”
The Mirror Universe ’s ISS Enterprise inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 is the sameConstitution stratum starshipfromStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 , episode 4 , " Mirror , Mirror , " which was the ISS endeavor ’s only prior canonical appearance . The ISS Enterprise was immobilise in interdimensional space and abandoned by its crew , who were refugees and exemption fighters attempt to fly the Mirror Universe forStar Trek ’s Prime Universe in the 24th century . As Captain Burnham later find out , the refugees made it to the Prime Universe , and one scientist even became a Starfleet Admiral .
InStar Trek : Enterpriseseason 4 ’s " In A Mirror , Darkly " , the twenty-second - century Terran Empire gained control condition of the Constitution Class USS Defiant , which cut through over and time traveled from the twenty-third - 100 Prime Universe .
InStar Trek : The Original Series ' " Mirror , Mirror " , the ISS Enterprise was commanded by Captain James T. Kirk who assassinated its prior Captain , Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter ) . " Mirror , Mirror " saw the Prime Universe ’s Kirk , Lt . Uhura ( Nichelle Nichols ) , Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) , and Scotty ( James Doohan ) switch places with their Mirror counterparts due to a car transporter fortuity during an ion storm . Before swap back , Prime Kirk set a seed with the goateedMirror Spock ( Leonard Nimoy)to take control of the Terran Empire andinstitute reform to prevent the inevitable wipeout of the Empire .
Mirror Spock ’s reforms were successful but at last weakened the Terran Empire , which was suppress by the Klingon - Cardassian Alliance , as seen inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine .
Star Trek: Discovery Filmed Season 5’s Enterprise On Strange New Worlds’ Set
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was on hiatus after season 2.
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 , " Mirrors " , was filmed on the USS Enterprise set ofStar Trek : Strange New Worlds . WhenDiscoveryseason 5 was in production in late 2022,Strange New Worldswas on hiatus after fill out time of year 2 cinematography in June . ( Strange New Worldswouldn’t start time of year 3 production until December 2023 . ) Sonequa Martin - Green , David Ajala , Eve Harlow , and Elias Toufexis shoot onStrange New Worlds ' sets , which are located in Toronto whereStar Trek : Discoveryalso shoot .
Star Trek : Strange New Worldsseason 3 is in production , and the serial has been renewed for time of year 4 .
Star Trek : DiscoveryredressedStrange New Worlds ' USS Enterprise setto become the ISS go-ahead . Scenes were film on the endeavor ’s bridge circuit , hallway , and medical true laurel . Interestingly , by usingStrange New Worlds ' Enterprise curing , which depicts the USS EnterprisebeforeCaptain Kirk assume dictation , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 establishes that the ISS Enterprise , which crossed into the Prime Universedecades afterStar Trek : The Original Series , isthe same ship as in " Mirror , Mirror " despite the very different Department of the Interior .
Star Trek : Enterpriserecreated the sets ofStar Trek : The Original Series ' USS Enterprise for the interiors of the USS Defiant .
What Happens To Mirror Universe’s Enterprise In Star Trek: Discovery?
The 32nd century just got another 23rd-century starship
Captain Burnham and Cleveland Booker pilot the ISS Enterprise out of interdimensional blank and intoStar Trek ’s Prime Universe with the help of the USS Discovery . Afterward , Burnham assigned Lt . Commanders Kayla Detmer ( Emily Coutts ) and Joann Owosekun ( Oyin Oladejo ) tofly the ISS Enterprise to Federation headquarters , so that the Mirror Universe ’s starship could be put into " storage" . However , there are now bewitching ramifications to the ISS go-ahead existing inStar Trek : Discovery ’s 32nd century .
Amazingly , the ISS Enterprise is also now the 2d 23rd - century spaceship in 3191 along with the USS Discovery itself .
Although the ISS Enterprise is disused by thirty-second - century standards , it ’s stilla gravy of Mirror Universe applied science that the United Federation of Planets has now acquired . This would certainly be of interest to Dr. Kovich ( David Cronenberg ) . The 23rd - one C ISS Enterprise is a window not just to 900 long time ago , but also to the alternative reality , especially since the Mirror Universe is now sealed off for good from the Federation . Amazingly , the ISS Enterprise is also now the second twenty-third - century starship in 3191 along with the USS Discovery itself . Perhaps the ISS Enterprise will reappear and trifle a role in the second half ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 .
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