Star Trek

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by mousepod

Your point is legit, iSm.

Worked for you, didn't for me.

But I'm glad we're arguing on the same page.

Agree with what iSm said. And for me, it was the time travel conceit that afforded me that "good will" from the get-go. It set up the characters as starting from a common point, and diverging due to the change in the timeline.

If I want to justify it with the Mirror Universe, I could argue that these versions are from a very close neighbor in the collection of parallel universe that branched of in a way that only slightly affected almost the same people but for some small changes. As opposed to the Mirror Universe versions which are clearly from a parallel universe with major differences that has resulted in drastically different personalities for our heroes.