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Star Trek: Discovery confirms another HUGE fan theory

Photo credit: Netflix / CBS
Photo credit: Netflix / CBS

From Digital Spy

Warning: Contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery season 1, episode 12 'Vaulting Ambition'.

Hot on the heels of last week's huge fan theory confirmation, this week's episode of Star Trek: Discovery has done it again, confirming that Captain Lorca really is from the Mirror Universe.

Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) made the connection as the Mirror-verse version of Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) explained her chequered history with Lorca (Jason Isaacs), and Michael realised that a lot of the traits being described match up with the man she knows.

The kicker, though, came when Michael realised that Georgiou also suffers from Lorca's sensitivity to light, which Georgiou then confirmed is the one biological difference between humans in the Prime and Mirror Universes.

Photo credit: Netflix / CBS
Photo credit: Netflix / CBS

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While it wasn't as widely circulated as the (now also true) 'Ash Tyler is actually the Klingon Voq' theory, Star Trek fans have had their suspicions about Lorca being from the Mirror Universe for a while now.

Not only has Lorca not acted like we expect a Starfleet captain to act in the past, but we've also seen Admiral Cornwell (Jayne Brook) reveal that this Lorca struggles to remember earlier memories, while the midseason finale also saw Lorca set the Discovery on the path to the Mirror Universe in the first place, however briefly.

And the end of last year, Jason Isaacs revealed that he's been enjoying all the various Star Trek: Discovery theories being put forward.

"I mean, there's some really bonkers stuff out there! Some people have got bits right, no-one's got the whole thing right," he said.

"There's stuff about me as well, people think I'm a Klingon or a Romulan... lot of stuff about why I want Michael to be serving on the ship, or why I want Tyler to be serving on the ship. More power to them, people should continue to come up with these theories."

Photo credit: Netflix / CBS
Photo credit: Netflix / CBS

Well, people may have to – the rate at which Star Trek: Discovery is confirming fans' theories isn't really leaving us with a whole lot else to speculate here.

Star Trek: Discovery airs on CBS in the US and Netflix in the UK.


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