Star Trek: TNG's Mirror War Will Make The Cardassian Wars Look Lame
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: The Mirror War #6!
The same Cardassian Wars that spanned three different Star Trek spin-off series is miraculously at risk of being one-upped completely by Star Trek:The Next Generation's upcoming Mirror War from IDW Publishing. Though not all of Star Trek's mirror-universe stories are great, the latest is a sight to behold,
Also known as the Federation-Cardassian War, this series of conflicts between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union lasted for nearly 20 years in the Star Trek universe with the two sides normally clashing along their borders. These border disputes were so vast that they couldn't be contained in one TV series, many of them documented in The Next Generation, Deep Space 9 and Voyager. Now a similar conflict is reaching its climax in a mirror world that flips the normal Star Trek universe upside-down, where an evil version of the Federation (known as the Empire) is battling against not just the Cardassians but the Klingons as well.
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In this parallel universe, the evil Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been endeavoring to amass an armada large and mighty enough to allow himself to lead the Empire's charge against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance with him at the helm of the ISS-Enterprise. For five long issues, the evil Picard has faced obstacle after obstacle to achieving his goal — even from the Empire itself, which, ironically posed his greatest challenge — but now he's finally gained enough recognition from his superiors and is finally leading his massive fleet into battle in Star Trek: The Mirror War #6 by writers Scott and David Tipton, artist Gavin Smith, colorist Charlie
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