Sexuality in the mirror universe?

[Christopher]

Point is,Kira is a fully functional psycho/sociopathic killer whose omni- sexuality is IMO the only characteristic the creators have chosen to highlight.

They've also highlighted her sadism, her narcissism, her ruthlessness, her deviousness. She killed Mirror Nog and Mirror Jennifer in cold blood. Sexuality was hardly the only characteristic they highlighted.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

But I don't recall if anyone mentioned any Terran depravations against the Bajorans

Mirror-Kira said that Bajor was occupied by the Terran Empire in her universe. So I'm guessing it was pretty much the same, atrocity-wise, as the Cardassian occupation was in the non-mirror universe.

 

[Trent Roman]

Okay,a universe fueled by sex and terror.Not the soundest of foundations you'll agree.Someone earlier suggested that a brutish world(s) might account for a "full on"way of life......maybe so.But I don't recall if anyone mentioned any Terran depravations against the Bajorans,perhaps I'm wrong.

That was me. And there doesn't have to be Terran depredations against Bajorans; the Alliance is the main power in the quadrant, which is just as callous and venal as the Terran Empire it replaced (and the MU Terrans had only themselves to blame for their lifestyle). For Kira to be a high-placed in Alliance hierarchy, even in an Alliance that incorporates Bajor as an ally, we must assume she plays the same dangerous political game as the rest of the Alliance, and plays it well, all the more so since she's not from one of the founding species.

Point is,Kira is a fully functional psycho/sociopathic killer whose omni- sexuality is IMO the only characteristic the creators have chosen to highlight.

While I agree that there were problems in the depiction of the MU, I think that's taking it a bit far. Intendant Kira was a classical archetype: the femme fatale; which means that yes, she's very sexual, which she uses, dangerously, to disarm and dominate opponents. And since her first opponent was our Kira, then the seductress routine had to extend beyond normative heterosexual relationships. And then the stereotypes and prurient play-ups just spun out as they started taking themselves less seriously.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Christopher]

I just read a quote from Nana Visitor on Memory Alpha: as she played it, the Intendant's reaction to the other Kira wasn't sexual, but was pure narcissism -- she was literally in love with herself. She felt the reading of it as a lesbian thing was in error. And as for myself, that's exactly the impression I've always gotten from the episode. But clearly the writers decided to go with the unintended implication later on.