There be SPOILERS here!
And now we know. Well, lots of us already knew. I’ve written about it repeatedly here and elsewhere. I and others have debated with those in the fan base who believed that Captain Lorca was simply a tough-as-nails leader who would always put Starfleet first. In this time of war with the Klingons, we needed someone like Lorca to make the United Federation of Planets great again!
But now we have all, er, discovered that Lorca has been playing us this whole time. He’s really from the Mirror Universe, and he’s a bad dude. For those fans who supported Lorca, stood up to defend his disturbing behavior and his dark methods—guess what!—you’ve placed your loyalty in someone who is just out for personal gain and doesn’t care about the UFP or anyone in our Prime Universe. In fact, he doesn’t seem to care about people from his Mirror Universe either…certainly not women. “Her name was Ava, and I liked her,” Lorca tells the brother of a woman he’d killed years before. “But you know how it is. Somebody better came along.”
Sure, he can be charming and talk crew members like Stamets into doing almost anything. But Lorca’s been keeping a lot of secrets from all of us, including from the people he leads. As far as I’m concerned, Lorca’s lust for power trumps anything that might have made him seem admirable in any way…and he’s fooled at least 37% of us all along.
Okay, enough of the fun double entendres. Let’s start doin’ some reviewin’!
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