What Scene Drives You Crazy
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Well, to be fair, a critical audience would have been all groaned out by that point. It was mainly us die-hard Star Trek fans who hadn't retreated behind the newspaper, or changed the channel to watch Judd for the Defense.
Or Green Acres. I wonder if Fred Freiberger ever tried to get Arnold the pig to guest star on TOS?
I used to worry about how the crew transported into each other clothes in the Mirror Mirror episode.
And while I hate a lot of scenes in 'That Which Survives' - where Kirk and Spock are being respective jerks, I can“t understand the scene with Scotty in the Jeffries tube. He keeps telling Spock to flush him out or something when he gets into trouble but I can“t see why that will solve anything as the Enterprîse was about to blow up. I mean the scene was exciting...
And while I hate a lot of scenes in 'That Which Survives' - where Kirk and Spock are being respective jerks, I can“t understand the scene with Scotty in the Jeffries tube. He keeps telling Spock to flush him out or something when he gets into trouble but I can“t see why that will solve anything as the Enterprîse was about to blow up. I mean the scene was exciting...
It always seemed clear to me from the first viewing that physical bodies didn't transport between universes, just minds. I thought that was a lot more clever than having them transport in the normal way.
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The question in MM for me was, did Mirror Kirk etc have to be on the pads at exactly the same time for the beam-back? I'd think so.
Beaming into Evil Kirk's uniform is a good way to get jock itch. I believe that's why Kirk-prime pushed for the development of the Transporter bio-filter. In a way, Evil Kirk was the "mutha" of invention.
That's right. They firmly establish that the ship is going to blow up in seconds unless Scotty stops the flow of fuel, and yet Scotty keeps insisting that he might have to be jettisoned before accomplishing that. It's a techno plot hole.
Evil Kirk had a great taste in Captain's women! 
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Evil Kirk had a great taste in Captain's women!
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But wasn't Evil Kirk part of Good Kirk, so Good Kirk had the same great taste in Captain's women as Evil Kirk, but he kept that suppressed in his Evil Kirk side......oh, never mind. I'm getting a headache trying to figure it out.
Unfortunately, as far as we know though, good Kirk never made whoopee with good Marlena Moreau did he! 
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But wasn't Evil Kirk part of Good Kirk, so Good Kirk had the same great taste in Captain's women as Evil Kirk, but he kept that suppressed in his Evil Kirk side......oh, never mind. I'm getting a headache trying to figure it out.
You're thinking of "The Enemy Within." We're talking "Mirror, Mirror." Which kind of shines a light on the fact that there are four Kirks: Prime, evil half, good half, and mirror evil. Five if you count Corby's android.
Unfortunately, as far as we know though, good Kirk never made whoopee with good Marlena Moreau did he!
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Chekov : I vas makeeng a leetle joke, sir.
Spock : Extremely little, ensign.
You don't make little of anything my Lord! 
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I'm guessing no, since she was his subordinate and under his command.Unfortunately, as far as we know though, good Kirk never made whoopee with good Marlena Moreau did he!
There also wasn't time. One of the many, many great things about MM is that it all seems to happen in a matter of a couple of hours or even less (and JTK's scenes with Marlena more or less seem to play out in real time). Sure, there other eps where the same was probably true, but the pace in MM is relentless in the face of the really, really serious danger without being overbearing about it.
Count me among those bothered by the unaddressed question of what happened to Mirror Kirk and the rest, and how exactly. Spock Prime has a toss-off line about assuming the "counterparts" returned to their universe at the same time, but that sort of undermines his awesome competence in figuring out that the evil versions were intruders, having them rounded up, and engaging in some great banter with Mirror Kirk outside the brig. I would have loved it if they had made clear that Spock doped out the "closing field density" window too and had the four baddies put on the transporter pad just in case, or was running his own experiments with the transporter, etc. It's just about the only blemish, for me, on an otherwise pretty much perfect episode. If STC addressed this in "Fairest of Them All" I don't remember it.
Johnnybear and I were talking about the Marlena Moreau of the Prime Universe, the one who we discover just transferred to the Enterprise last week in the epilogue. I don't think there's any question that Kirk didn't have time to sleep with the Mirror Universe's Marlena.
Yeah, I just can't see the Kirk we saw on TOS going there. Look at how uncomfortable he was with Helen Noel in "Dagger of the Mind."Kirk did seem certain that he and (prime) Marlena could become...friends.
Of course, there are many levels of being "friends"
LOL, the day where being enamored for someone is accorded a status synonymous to that something completely opposite (e.g. maliciousness):
Then again, Spock wasn't anywhere near his Amok time (which, for human males, seems to be like every four hours...
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I'm going through Poon Far right now!LOL, the day where being enamored for someone is accorded a status synonymous to that something completely opposite (e.g. maliciousness):
Then again, Spock wasn't anywhere near his Amok time (which, for human males, seems to be like every four hours...
Sorry. 
