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Just the other day I watched a neat video by the Feral Historian in which he argued the theory that the Mirror Universe is not actually a traditional "alternate timeline" that diverged at a particular point in history and just developed differently from there. He argues that it's a more amorphous psychoactive kind of place that is "recreated" whenever visitors enter it based on those visitors themselves. I rather liked it.
With the multiverse all things are possible. The "mirror" universe could just be whatever multiverse happens to be the antipode of the current zeitgeist. Like a sociological dipole. Therefore appearing to be "recreated" as a psycho-re-active kind of place, but also a physical reality that always existed. This could be happening often enough through various combinations that the "mirror" universe would even have a memory of previous encounters with a "prime" universe similar to, but not necessarily identical to, the prime universe we are currently watching.
Woah awesome. Watching it now and this guy could have been on Star Trek, damn! He'd fit right in.
He does analyses of stuff from all sorts of different sci-fi, I really like him.
I always thought he was supposed to be Felix, julians friend who wrote the holo program originally
That's a distinct possibility. Mirror!Bashir calls him Fontaine, but it could be an alias. It's also possible that Mirror!Fontaine is an android.
I always thought that Felix modeled the hologram Vic off of a friend of his named Vic Fontaine. So, in the Mirror Universe, the Vic we see is the original friend.
You mean just the actual shape, like the face for the doctor using Zimmermans? That's plausible.
Yep! Exactly!
The alias theory is fun. I remember some old novel that took place in the Mirror Universe having a never-Borgified Annika Hansen working as a spy, and her spy designation was "Agent Seven" just because there's a rule of cool about these things.
Even in hologram form in the "normal" universe, he was unusually self-aware.
Remember the TNG episode with those 20th century frozen people? It's like that, but mirror universe style.
Prime timeline Vic was never actually a hologram. Just a holosuite employee with a transporter and good reflexes.