Nyota Uhura (mirror)

This page details Nyota Uhura in the mirror universe; for Nyota Uhura in the primary universe see Nyota Uhura; for Nyota Uhura in the Kelvin timeline created by Nero's temporal incursion see Nyota Uhura (Kelvin timeline); for the Nyota Uhura in the mirror universe created by Nero's temporal incursion see Nyota Uhura (mirror) (Kelvin timeline); for Nyota Uhura in all other alternate universes see Nyota Uhura (alternates).

Nyota Uhura
Species:	Terran
Gender:	Female
Born:	M.U.2239
Affiliation:	Terran Empire
Family
Marital Status:	Single
Career
Occupation:	Communications Officer
Assignment:	Communications Officer, ISS Enterprise
Rank:	Lieutenant

In the mirror universe, Nyota Uhura was a Terran female officer in the Imperial Starfleet who served as communications officer aboard the ISS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk in the 2260s.

Biography

Career

By 2264, Uhura served aboard the ISS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 2")

Uhura eventually gained the infatuation of Security Chief Hikaru Sulu and became the object of his constant advances, but she knew how to handle him. (CCG set: Mirror, Mirror)

Aboard the Enterprise

Mirror Images

In 2264, the Enterprise attended an off-the-records rendezvous in the Pentalla Nebula with an Orion trading vessel under the command of Captain Juraav. Uhura informed Captain Pike that Juraav was hailing them, and then put him through so that the captains could talk. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 2")

Later on, Uhura and the rest of the senior staff were summoned to the briefing room by Captain Pike. Pike explained that he had received a coded Imperial communiqué that informed him that the Enterprise had been awarded a highly prized mission. Pike elaborated by stating that, sometime last week, the Klingons had lost a prototype of their newest destroyer, the D7, which was full of new Klingon technology, such as improved disruptors, better shields and superior sensors.

While the Klingons had been searching for it desperately, the Empire had found it first, having discovered that it had crashed on Rashdin VII, a largely unexplored, inhospitable ice world with brutal conditions. Kirk was then tasked with leading the landing party down to the crash site to salvage the D7's computer core, weapons specifications and whatever other technology that would be valuable to the Empire. Ultimately, Kirk managed to successfully complete the mission. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 4")

Later on, Kirk managed to successfully assassinate Pike and become captain. After Kirk entered the bridge, he instructed Uhura to send a communique to Starfleet Command informing them that, as per standard Imperial protocol, Captain Pike had been removed from command due to his dereliction of duty and lack of fitness for captaincy as declared by Captain Kirk. After Kirk sat down in the captain's chair, Uhura, along with Sulu and Spock, exchanged glances with him, as Kirk remained suspicious of all of them. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 5")

Crossover with the primary universe

In 2267, Uhura accompanied a landing party consisting of herself, Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy, and Lieutenant Commander Scott to the surface of the planet Halka to demand that the Halkans hand over their dilithium crystals to the Terran Empire. After Kirk uttered the customary threats, the landing party attempted to beam up back to the Enterprise.

However, an extremely volatile ion storm crossed them with their counterparts from the primary universe, beaming them right inside their duplicates' clothes aboard the USS Enterprise in a one-in-a-million transference, which read to Winston Kyle's board as a "wobble" in the power beam of the transporter.

The Spock of that universe noted it was far more difficult for the barbaric mirror universe landing party to behave civilized than it was for the civilized crew to feign barbarity on the other side. Spock initially imprisoned the landing party and later proceeded to place them on the transporter, waiting for when the crew from his landing party reciprocated the action, and beamed themselves back into the places of the duplicates.

After the landing parties returned to their respective universes, the Spock of the primary universe told his Dr. McCoy and Captain Kirk that he found their counterparts to be "brutal, unprincipled, uncivilized, treacherous; in every way splendid examples of Homo sapiens, the very flower of Humanity." (TOS episode & Star Trek 3 novelization: Mirror, Mirror, TOS comic: "Fragile Glass")

Star Trek: Mirror Universe

In the months following Spock's assassination of Captain Kirk, Uhura became more and more suspicious of the actions that Spock was taking, such as the persuading Troyius and Elas to become allies, which violated orders from the Empire. Lieutenant Commander Scott and Doctor McCoy shared her concerns and they plotted to remove Spock from command of the Enterprise. However, as Uhura began to carry out their plan, she was disintegrated by the Tantalus field, silencing her criticisms for good. (TOS - Mirror Universe novel: The Sorrows of Empire)

Through a Glass, Darkly

Later career

Uhura continued to serve aboard the Enterprise under the command of Captain Spock, who had overthrown and killed Kirk shortly after the Halkan mission and then used the tantalus field to seize power on board the Enterprise. Over the years, Spock would convert the Enterprise crew to Oswaldism, a doctrine inspired by the reformist writings of 20th century Emperor Oswald. By 2285, Uhura and the surviving members of the Kirk-era Enterprise crew had all become committed Oswaldites.

That year, the Enterprise crew battled against T'Pau, the former ruler of Vulcan, and a complement of slavering Gorn for control of the Genesis Weapon, the Empire's top-secret project that had been overseen by Dr. Carol Marcus and her son David at the Imperial research base on Regula I. Although the Enterprise crew managed to win the battle, Spock had been killed by David Marcus, the illegitimate son of Captain Kirk, in revenge for Spock's murder of his father. Sulu subsequently killed David, his mother attacked Sulu and was then slain by Uhura. The schematics for the device died with the Marcuses.

A short time later, McCoy presided over a tearful funeral for Spock, in which Spock's body was placed in a coffin and shot onto the surface of Ceti Alpha V. However, the revivifying energy of the Genesis Effect took the DNA from Spock's body and replicated it, returning Spock back to life. The Enterprise crew braved a combined Klingon-Cardassian assault to rescue him. Alliance forces briefly occupied the Enterprise but were destroyed by an array of booby-traps installed by Scotty.

In 2286, the old Enterprise crew again joined forces to alter the timeline when a gigantic alien probe appeared in orbit around Earth and began to bombard it with extremely damaging sonic radiation. Spock realized that it was beaming a whale song at the planet, as if expecting a reply from one of those extinct marine mammals. The Enterprise subsequently went back in time to 1986 to pick up some whales. When they returned to the 23rd century, the probe and whales interacted. The whales, incited by the probe, grew rapidly into armored leviathans that roamed the tsunami-swept oceans, destroying entire coastal cities. After Spock found a way aboard the probe and shut down its computer core, the creatures, now vulnerable to phaser fire, were destroyed by the Enterprise. However, the whale-beasts' rampage, combined with the loss of power and the sonic damage from the probe, had left much of the planet's industrial capacity in ruins.

By the mid-2290s, the Empire's economic collapse resulted in the fleets of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance quickly cutting their way through demoralized and ill-equipped Starfleet forces. In 2297, before the Alliance's final invasion of Earth, the Enterprise positioned itself in the Rigel system. When the Alliance occupied Rigel, Spock used the power-wand he had gotten from Korob and Sylvia to make his ship invisible and then sent an illusionary Enterprise to join the final battle for Earth. Maneuvering the illusion cleverly, he even managed to crash a Cardassian vessel into the Klingon Emperor's flagship, killing Emperor Kor and many of his top aides. The Enterprise crew then safely decamped. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

The following scenarios are player-determined

Answer A: Émigré

The Enterprise crew fled to the primary universe, as Spock had decided that it was the one hideout where no one in the galaxy would think to seek him. Using the same amplifier technology he had used to alter the power-wand, Scotty created an energy field that connected the two universes just long enough for the Enterprise to fly through it.

After the utter failure of Spock's grand schemes triggered an identity crisis, McCoy egged on Spock by badgering him until he admitted that his actions had been based on Human emotion, not Vulcan logic. When Spock pronounced himself a failure and sank into a deep depression, the other crew members experienced a similar sense of demoralization. As a group, they decided to abandon the Enterprise and seek new lives in the Federation.

Applying the power-wand's technology one last time, Spock and Scotty designed small devices allowing the user to alter their appearance. Each crew member received a single Appearance Scrambler, as Scotty dubbed it. That way, if they discovered that their counterparts were active and well-known, they could adopt new, anonymous faces. The Enterprise traveled through the fringes of Federation space, covertly dropping off crew members at various colonies and starbases. McCoy, Spock, Sulu, Uhura and Scotty were the last to abandon ship. Unable to bear the thought of its destruction, they put up the shields and parked it in continuous orbit around the moon of a planet far from any inhabited worlds. Spock calculated that, barring a surprise asteroid hit, it would remain in good condition for 134 years, 15 days, 6 hours and 19 minutes. They took a long shuttlecraft journey to the nearest Federation base and mournfully parted company, not exchanging forwarding addresses because nobody knew where they would head. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

Answer B: Romulan Praetor

Uhura remained on board the Enterprise after Spock had left Sulu in command and decided to assume the identity of a Tal Shiar operative called Notatek. Spock departed on a shuttlecraft as the ship passed through the Romulan frontier for parts unknown. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

Answer C: The Vulcan Behind the Curtain

Uhura presumably remained on board the Enterprise after Spock changed his identity and lived as a supposed addict named "Shuffles" on Gringus-A1, from where he continued to manipulate events throughout the galaxy. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

Answer D: Locutus of Borg

When the Enterprise attempted to escape into the primary universe, Scotty's device failed and the ship instead ended up in the mirror universe's Delta Quadrant. The Enterprise prospered for a while, spreading Oswaldite ideas to the quadrant's many hostile cultures, until they met the Borg. Although the ship and its crew escaped, Spock was beamed by the Borg onto one of their cubes and was assimilated, an act that changed him and the Borg forever. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

Alternate versions

• TOS comic The Mirror Universe Saga
• TOS comic Fragile Glass

External link

• Nyota Uhura (mirror) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.