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Dark Mirror

The ultimate terror lies within…

• Stardate 44002.2
• Released December 1993

The twenty-fourth century. Humanity‘s greatest dreams have become reality. Along with dozens of other sentient races, the people of Earth have formed the United Federation of Planets—a galactic civilization that governs much of the known galaxy for the good of all. Over the past two centuries, mankind has tamed its basest instincts, and reached for the stars…

But suppose it hadn’t happened that way at all? Suppose instead humanity’s darkest impulses, its most savage, animalistic desires had triumphed? Suppose that the empire mankind made out in the stars was one ruled by terror, where only those willing to brutalize their own kind and their neighbors could survive?

One hundred years ago, four crewmembers of the U.S.S. Enterprise crossed the dimensional barrier and found just such an empire. A mirror image of their own universe, populated by nightmare duplicates of their shipmates. Barely able to escape with their lives, they returned thankful that the accident that brought them there could not be duplicated. Or so they thought.

But now the scientists of that empire have found a doorway into our universe. Their plan: to destroy from within, to replace one of our starships with one of theirs. Their victims: the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

Written by: Diane Duane

Cast:

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard
• Commander William T. Riker
• Dr. Beverly Crusher
• Counselor Deanna Troi
• Lieutenant Commander Data
• Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
• Lieutenant Worf

Guest Cast:

Guest Cast:

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard (mirror, alternate)
• Commander William Riker (mirror, alternate)
• Lieutenant Commander Data (mirror, alternate)
• Dr. Beverly Crusher (mirror, alternate)
• Lieutenant Commander Deanna Troi (mirror, alternate)
• Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge (mirror, alternate)

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Excerpt

Captain Jean-Luc Picard moved carefully through the sinister duplicate of the Starship Enterprise…

He stepped through a door, his phaser ready. A foot came shooting out, caught the phaser in his hand, and kicked it far away.

Picard grabbed the foot and yanked sideways, hard. There was a crash, and Picard threw himself in the direction of the sound. He felt a body, found a throat, seized it and looked into the face of his attacker.

The face was a dark mirror of his own.