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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
How come an alternate universe with hundreds of years different history has the exact same people at the same age?
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I see this is your first Star Trek mirror episode, it's best not to think too hard about it. Besides as Rick & Morty have shown, there are an infinite number of universes with an infintite number of combinations, so Discovery just happened upon one where humanity differed at the point of first contact. In the movie First Contact the Vulcans land on Earth and party with Zefram Cochrane, leading eventually to the Federation. In the mirror universe Cochrane shoots the Vulcans with a shotgun and pillages their ship for technology, leading to the Empire