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28. Gabriel Lorca
Yes, Im evil. I had to shave my mustache because I was pretending to be good, but when it grows back, Ill start twirling it again, I promise.

To me, one of the highlights of Discovery is when Admiral Psychologist says the real Captain Lorca was trapped in the Mirror Universe? Well, hes probably dead, no point in looking for him, and no one makes any attempt to rescue him.

Lorca gets this high based purely on his association with the Mirror Universe. Because he has the good fortune to miss season 1s opening and closing and all of season 2, he avoids most of the shows worst moments. Like hes fine when hes pretending to be a Starfleet guy, hes like We need to be willing to do bad things to win and I respect Michael because she tried to stop the Klingons before they could do their nonsense, but once he reveals hes evil, he immediately becomes hilarious. The first thing he does when he goes into evil mode is kill a guy while talking about how he enjoyed ****ing his sister. My personal favorite Lorca moment comes in the next episode, when he says Good thing I packed a spare black leather trench coat, and gets rid of his Starfleet uniform. Have you ever watched 24? Every time a friendly Muslim reveals that hes actually a terrorist, he loses his American accent and starts talking with an Arabic accent, and its ****ing hilarious. Its the same kind of thing here.

Lorca even dies in a great way. Michael betrays him in the most obvious way ever (like if you fall for the trick she pulls, you deserve to die), then beats him in a fight and says I cant kill you because you pretended to be my friend once, but Georgiou is like No prob, bro, Ill do it, and then stabs him in the back and pushes him into a star-mushroom-engine-thing where he disintegrates.

I love how the show makes no attempt to explain anything about Lorca. How did he infiltrate the Federation without any knowledge of what it was? How did he learn about the super-secret ship that was the only way in the universe to return to his dimension? How did he get assigned to it? How did he know how to calculate a vector back to the Mirror Universe when hes a soldier and not a scientist? Shut up, none of that matters.

As far as completely stupid emperors go, Lorca is nowhere near as much fun as Palpatine, but hes still a lot of fun, and I approve of how completely stupid the show becomes once he reveals hes actually evil.

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Started: July 6, 2005