Star Trek Discovery: The Defiant and the Mirror Universe
**Red Spoiler Alerts**
Last Sunday’s episode captured the story-telling in a very Star Trek manner. There was an element of surprise but, truly, there wasn’t. In fact, if they had gone anywhere else with this episode it would have harmed the series. At least, speaking in logical terms. They foreshadowed the trans-dimensional jump in the previous episode when they discussed the inherent possibilities in the Mycelium network.
What made this show even more interesting was the time travel conundrum it discreetly snuck in there this week.
"It cites another Starfleet vessel USS Defiant."SARU: "How is that possible? At last review, the Defiant was patrolling Sector six in our universe.""There may be some kind of temporal anomaly at play.""It's unclear, but data suggests that in the future, Defiant will encounter a phenomenon that'll bring it into this alternative universe's past."
It seems like they are speaking about a USS Defiant in their timeline. So, around 2255 and 2260, because time has passed since the Battle at the Binary Stars. Also, stardates have been missing in DIS and there really is no hard and fast formula until TNG for stardates. What we know for certain is that DIS takes place 10…
