Review – Mirror Masquerade
Mirror Masquerade?
Mirror Masquerade Background
The idea was to cross over, and I am pretty sure that was the original prompt. And so I decided to cross over between the Original Series and Enterprise. However, the twist would be to add the Mirror Universe in for some spice.
Plot
Mirror Masquerade
So much like in Concord and Crackerjack, and The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat, a temporal situation is encountered. And a lot more like Theorizing and Day of the Dead, two people switch places. Although in this instance, it is Travis Mayweather and Hikaru Sulu. So for the purposes of this story, it was the TOS Hikaru Sulu, although it could just as easily have been the Hikaru Sulu from the Kelvin timeline.
For both men, so long as the switcheroo holds up, their lives improve, although Sulu ends up doing better. In the Mirror Universe, any advantage is a good one. Sulu finds someone who interests him – Preston Jennings. This establishes, in my fanfiction universe, that Hikaru Sulu is bisexual is not gay, which was a deliberate call out to Takei’s well-known homosexuality. Travis sees an immediate improvement in his life as he gets away from Empress Hoshi. It feels like it is going to be a win-win all around. But we just can’t have that. There has to be some reason it all happened.
And then, of course, it’s time to undo it all and pull the rug out from under them. Sorry, fellas.
Story Postings
- Mirror Masquerade on Ad Astra
- In addition, Mirror Masquerade on Fanfiction.net
- Also, Mirror Masquerade on Wattpad
- Mirror Masquerade in Hall of Mirrors context
- Also, Mirror Masquerade on Wattpad
Rating
The story is Rated K+.
Upshot
The idea of shifting bodies in time is always a fun one, although I confess it isn’t always so easy to figure out a plausible explanation for the trade. I am running out of ideas here!
Uh, help?
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