Reality, or lack thereof.

Posted on 07 Jan 2016 @ 9:26pm by Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert Jameson

269 words; about a 1 minute read

PO3 Jameson's personal log.

I've experienced a lot of things in the twenty years I've been enlisted in starfleet. I've spent time patrolling the Cardassian DMZ, chasing Maquis & Cardassian raiders all over the place. I survived the worst of the Dominion war, fighting on the ground with the marines, and in space with the navy. I've seen things I never want to talk about but the Mirror Universe is something else altogether.

Mirror is an accurate term though perhaps exactly the most backwards to to describe them. They are everything we are not. Where we prefer peace, war is a constant. Our ships explore looking for new answers to questions, their ships recon with an aim to conquer. We accept many other species in society, they remind me of the most racist people in history.

My counterpart. How to explain him? He's everything I'm not, and yet he's everything I could have been, my choices personified. I met him in a holding cell, I guess I was a curiosity to him, an example of the weakness he works so hard not to show. He's married, if you can use that word, to his version of the women I once loved and lost during the Breen attack on earth.

He has a daughter like I did, mine would be 18 now if she were still alive, his is not only 18 but already following her father. She actually came to see me, whether curiosity or not, we had a brief talk. It tears me up inside to think how my daughter could have been if she'd lived to become 18.

Computer End Log.

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