Episode of the Week : Mirror, Mirror
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I loved this one back in 1980 on a repeat run and videoed it for a lot of rewatching! And anything with Barbara Luna in it has gotta be good!
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This is a great episode, an outstanding change of pace, and the only flaw I can think of is plausibility, something we have to accept a lot in the franchise generally.
It's worth noting that "In a Mirror Darkly" is far and away my favorite episode of Star Trek Enterprise. If they had set that whole series in the mirror universe and seldom shown the bland "prime" characters, ENT would have run ten years.
It's worth noting that "In a Mirror Darkly" is far and away my favorite episode of Star Trek Enterprise. If they had set that whole series in the mirror universe and seldom shown the bland "prime" characters, ENT would have run ten years.
It's the only ENT episode I will watch.
One of my favorite episodes! My only regret was that due to budget they could not introduce too many changes for the ISS Enterprise. Reworking the bridge slightly like they did on 'Yesterdays Enterprise' or even darkening the lighting to give it a malevolent vibe would have been nice.
One question- do you think the transporter accident beamed their actual bodies into different clothes (extraordinary machine) or just transport their consciousnesses into the alternate bodies?
One question- do you think the transporter accident beamed their actual bodies into different clothes (extraordinary machine) or just transport their consciousnesses into the alternate bodies?
A ten.
Leaves you wanting more. I loved the reference to killing Pike.
More of that would have been great.
"you won't do to me what you did to Janice!" LOL
And where was evil Chapel?
And it would have been cool to have them see a dead crewman still alive in the alternate universe before they figured out what happened.
Lt Kelso walks by and they all freak out!
If only they had a sequel to it in season 3!
Leaves you wanting more. I loved the reference to killing Pike.
More of that would have been great.
"you won't do to me what you did to Janice!" LOL
And where was evil Chapel?
And it would have been cool to have them see a dead crewman still alive in the alternate universe before they figured out what happened.
Lt Kelso walks by and they all freak out!
If only they had a sequel to it in season 3!
A great, fun episode in its own right that's become an iconic reference point for similar stories in the larger popular culture...and it gets extra points for putting Uhura's midriff on full display (back when Barbara Eden's navel was considered too risqué for prime time).
10.
One of the best. Unquestionably.
One of the best. Unquestionably.
Well apparently we are about to explore an ACTUAL Mirror Universe!
http://secondnexus.com/technology-a...ientists-hope-make-contact-parallel-universe/
Spockboy
http://secondnexus.com/technology-a...ientists-hope-make-contact-parallel-universe/
Spockboy
Well apparently we are about to explore an ACTUAL Mirror Universe!
http://secondnexus.com/technology-a...ientists-hope-make-contact-parallel-universe/
Scary and exciting all at the same time.
One of the very best; Trek at its finest (along with a handful of others). Fantastic girl for Kirk. Sulu under a very different, dark light, other Vulcans shown, great fight scene, ticking timeline, build of tension....fantastic closing speech by Kirk as he is about to leave the parallel universe. Great fun!
It had a great beat and was easy to dance to. I gave it an 85.*
A lot of fun, and something different. It fits right in with the "strange new worlds" theme. The first time I saw it, sometime in the early 70s, I'd have sworn that Spock's beard was real. I was disappointed to later see that it wasn't.
Well, there's always STC's "Fairest of Them All" ...
*For those too young to remember, look up American Bandstand.
A lot of fun, and something different. It fits right in with the "strange new worlds" theme. The first time I saw it, sometime in the early 70s, I'd have sworn that Spock's beard was real. I was disappointed to later see that it wasn't.
Well, there's always STC's "Fairest of Them All" ...
*For those too young to remember, look up American Bandstand.
Always wondered what the mirror Klingons and Romulans were like...
Anyway, a great episode, I give it a nine.
MST3K did a great parody/tribute: http://youtu.be/KLowMDe85To
Anyway, a great episode, I give it a nine.
MST3K did a great parody/tribute: http://youtu.be/KLowMDe85To
If you look up DC's Mirror Universe Sage, which was a six-issue arc during their run, you can actually treat it as a self-contained sequel and it works pretty well that way too. The Mirror Romulans were partially responsible for the rise of the Terran Empire, as they defeated Terra in the war and occupied it for a time. Eventually an organized resistance drove them away, but didn't simply disappear afterwards. It expanded and became the basis for the Imperial party, which declared that the best way to protect Terra in the future was to ensure it would never again be conquered. Instead, it was humans who would do the conquering.
When Mirror Kirk launched an invasion of our universe in the immediate aftermath of TSFS (then the most recent canonical movie), it's up to our Kirk and crew to defeat the threat. At one point they have a brief alliance with the mirror Klingons and Romulans against the Empire in the mirror universe. The writing is pretty strong and brings up some interesting ideas in regards to both the original "Mirror, Mirror" and the fate of the crew in the aftermath of getting Spock back and losing our Enterprise. I like some of their ideas better, in fact. DC did follow up some of the elements in their regular series, as the end of MUS has a major change (especially if one wants to treat it as a self-contained episode).
When Mirror Kirk launched an invasion of our universe in the immediate aftermath of TSFS (then the most recent canonical movie), it's up to our Kirk and crew to defeat the threat. At one point they have a brief alliance with the mirror Klingons and Romulans against the Empire in the mirror universe. The writing is pretty strong and brings up some interesting ideas in regards to both the original "Mirror, Mirror" and the fate of the crew in the aftermath of getting Spock back and losing our Enterprise. I like some of their ideas better, in fact.
DC did follow up some of the elements in their regular series, as the end of MUS has a major change (especially if one wants to treat it as a self-contained episode).
Which is one of the reasons I always hold the two DC Star Trek Runs as part of my personal canon.
There is one thing that I wonder about in the Mirror Universe. assuming both universe were the same until the Romulan/Earth War that means that somewhere out in the Mirror Universe there's a Khan Noonien Signh sleeping aboard a Botany Bay along with some 72 other 21st Century Supermen/women. whatever became of them?
they were encountered the same time as our Khan and Co., and
A.They were seen as potential threats to the Empire and summarily tortured, experimented on and executed.
B.They were seen as great allies that could make the Empire invincible and were given their own Starship to command as an elite strike force.
C.They were taken capture towards the purpose of A but managed to escape and form a resistance movement with Khan embracing the ideals of freedom as a reflex to seeing what the Empire had done. (thereby becoming incredible allies for our Federation in a future encounter.)
There is one thing that I wonder about in the Mirror Universe. assuming both universe were the same until the Romulan/Earth War that means that somewhere out in the Mirror Universe there's a Khan Noonien Signh sleeping aboard a Botany Bay along with some 72 other 21st Century Supermen/women. whatever became of them?
they were encountered the same time as our Khan and Co., and
A.They were seen as potential threats to the Empire and summarily tortured, experimented on and executed.
B.They were seen as great allies that could make the Empire invincible and were given their own Starship to command as an elite strike force.
C.They were taken capture towards the purpose of A but managed to escape and form a resistance movement with Khan embracing the ideals of freedom as a reflex to seeing what the Empire had done. (thereby becoming incredible allies for our Federation in a future encounter.)
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