Tristan Adams (mirror)

For the primary universe counterpart, see Tristan Adams.

Tristan Adams
Full name:	Tristan Adams
Species:	Terran
Gender:	Male
Born:	23rd century
Affiliation:	Terran Empire
Career
Previous Assignment:	Director, Tantalus colony
Office Held:	Propaganda Minister

In the mirror universe, Tristan Adams was a Terran doctor who was the head of the Terran Empire's Tantalus colony in the year 2264.

Biography

Star Trek: Mirror Universe

Although official propaganda indicated that the colony was for insane individuals, Tantalus was really a prison for those who had fallen out of favor or refused the will of the Empire. Those individuals sent to Tantalus were ones whose family had some limited influence within the bureaucracy of the Empire and yet could not be killed outright. Upon arriving at the planet, inmates had their belongings confiscated and were subjected to torture as well as the neural neutralizer. However, Adams began to use the neutralizer to genuinely rehabilitate prisoners, which earned him the ire of Starfleet Command.

In 2264, Lieutenant Commander James T. Kirk visited the colony posing as a doctor. Kirk was seeking a favor from his friend Dr. Simon Van Gelder, a clean psychiatric evaluation. However, Van Gelder was seeking to leave the planet, believing Dr. Adams to be misguided in his intentions to reform the colony's prison population. As part of his plan to escape Tantalus, Van Gelder released all of the inmates and murdered Dr. Adams. However, Kirk used the Tantalus field to kill Van Gelder almost immediately. (TOS - Mirror Universe short story: "The Greater Good")

Through a Glass, Darkly

A psychiatrist and criminologist, Dr. Adams served as head of the Tantalus Penal Colony, where foes of the Emperor often stayed as special wards of the state. In 2266, after John Gill had become Emperor, Adams was appointed to the position of Propaganda Minister within Gill's cabinet. In this role, Adams promoted Gill's Managed Culture theory, of which Adams was an even more fervent believer than Gill himself. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)