Star Trek: Mirror Images is a five-part comic miniseries published by IDW Publishing starting in June 2008, the omnibus was be released in February 2009. The series was written by Scott and David Tipton and illustrated by David Messina. The series includes a four-part Star Trek: The Original Series story, and a single issue Star Trek: The Next Generation story, both set in the mirror universe.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Issues 3 Appendices 3.1 External links

OverviewEdit

The main story of the series is a four-part TOS story depicting events in the mirror universe prior to the episode "Mirror, Mirror"; showing the rise of James T. Kirk through his plots to unseat Captain Christopher Pike from command of the ISS Enterprise. The third issue of the series was a flash-forward to the 24th century, showing how Jean-Luc Picard took command of the ISS Starbreaker.

The series was originally announced as a four-part series, and was to have Chris Ryall as a third writer. Additionally their were plans for a second Mirror Images miniseries set in the TNG era^[1], this eventually evolved into the Myriad Universes miniseries The Last Generation and the addition of a fifth issue to this miniseries, putting a TNG flash-forward midway through the otherwise TOS story.

There was a one month gap in the release of the series, pushing the third issue back to a September release, and bumping back the release of the rest of the series, with the fifth issue finally out in November.

The German omnibus of the series published by Cross Cult features new cover art by David Messina.

Prior to the publication of the series, author Keith R.A. DeCandido suggested efforts were being made between IDW and Pocket Books to keep the series consistent with the prose mirror universe fiction recently released by the Pocket. ^[2] However the short story "The Greater Good" published a few months after the completion of this series gives a contradictory account of Kirk's rise to captaincy.

IssuesEdit

Title/Number	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3	Issue 4	Issue 5
Writers	Scott & David Tipton
Artist	David Messina
Published	2 July 2008	30 July 2008	10 September 2008	8 October 2008	12 November 2008
Cover A (Joe Corroney)
Cover B			-
RI photo cover

AppendicesEdit

IDW Publishing miniseries
Completed series	The Space Between • Klingons: Blood Will Tell • Year Four • Alien Spotlight • Intelligence Gathering • Turnaround • The Enterprise Experiment • Assignment: Earth • Mirror Images • Romulans: The Hollow Crown • The Last Generation • Countdown • Alien Spotlight II • Crew • Mission's End • The Wrath of Khan • Spock: Reflections • Nero • Romulans: Schism • Ghosts • Fool's Gold • Star Trek Movie Adaptation • Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor • Burden of Knowledge
Current series	Captain's Log • Khan: Ruling in Hell • Infestation
Future series	Assignment: Earth II

IDW Publishing omnibuses
IDW miniseries	The Space Between • Klingons: Blood Will Tell • Year Four • Alien Spotlight, Volume I • Intelligence Gathering • Turnaround • Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment • Assignment: Earth • Mirror Images • Countdown • The Last Generation • Mission's End • Crew • Spock: Reflections • Nero • Romulans: Pawns of War • Alien Spotlight, Volume II • Ghosts • Fool's Gold • Star Trek Movie Adaptation • Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor
Archive material	Star Trek Archives (Best of Peter David • Best of Gary Seven • Best of DS9 • Best of Captain Kirk • Best of Alternate Universes) • Star Trek Omnibus (Volume 1 • Volume 2 • The Original Series • Movie Omnibus) • Motion Picture Trilogy

External linksEdit

• Star Trek: Mirror Images article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Mirror Image page at the Star Trek Comics Checklist