Event Star Trek: Enterprise · 2063

First contact in the Mirror Universe

Origin of the Terran Empire

In the Mirror Universe, Zefram Cochrane shot the first Vulcan to step onto Earth at Bozeman in 2063, and humans seized the Vulcan ship.

The Mirror Universe's history took a darker path from the moment of first contact. When a Vulcan stepped from the survey ship that had answered Cochrane's warp flight and raised a hand in greeting, Cochrane shot him dead, and the watching crowd stormed the ship and looted its technology.
The stolen Vulcan knowledge helped give rise to the Terran Empire, a brutal regime that conquered and enslaved other worlds. By the 2150s its fleet included the ISS Enterprise, whose officers seized the USS Defiant, a ship that had arrived from another universe.