I realize there’s a lot of folks out there who wish I’d just either hate on Discovery or else embrace it unconditionally. ![]() However, this latest episode still had some issues to overcome, and I’m not sure if they succeeded…Īgain, I have to say that it wasn’t a “bad” episode, per se. We know all of the “prime” characters much better now. In other words, it was hard to truly appreciate the doppelgängers because we didn’t know much about who they were doppelgänging!įortunately, as this season’s Discovery returns to the MU for another 2-parter with their ninth and tenth episodes “Terra Firma,” we don’t have that same problem any longer. Unlike TOS, DS9, and Enterprise–where the audience had literally dozens and dozens of episodes to get to know the prime characters-this time we’d had just two episodes of Georgiou and seven for most of the Discovery crew. Perhaps most problematic is that the various people we saw in the MU were “evil” versions of characters that hadn’t really been developed much in the nine previous Discovery episodes. Add to that the convenient contrivance that nearly everyone from the main cast just happened to be near the emperor…who just happened to actually be an emPRESS and the doppelgänger of Captain Philippa Georgiou. It made the plot seem stretched out and somewhat boring. First, many fans agree that it lasted too long: four episodes (out of fifteen) were spent there when two or three episodes would probably have sufficed. So is it any wonder that the next Star Trek television series, DISCOVERY, made a return to the Mirror Universe in its very first season? And it included what was supposed to be the biggest surprise plot twist of the entire series-that Captain Lorca was from the MU himself!-although a lot of fans ( including me!) saw it coming many episodes earlier.īut Discovery‘s trip to the Mirror Universe wasn’t as interesting as previous crossovers…for a number of reasons. Defiant from the TOS episode “The Tholian Web.” Fans loved this two-parter more than almost any other episode of that four-season series. ![]() The answer came with a resounding “Heck, no!” when Star Trek: Enterprise aired a two-parter titled “In a Mirror, Darkly,” and we saw the final fate of the U.S.S. Had DS9 plucked the Mirror Universe bare? But by the time DS9 aired their fifth and final crossover episode, I was feeling a little bored of the same old routine. Everything was different now with the MU, as apparently Spock DID mange to topple the Empire, and 24th century Terra had gone from interstellar bully to bitter victim. And I cheered the first time the folks at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine surprised us with the trip across the threshold. ![]() “Mirror, Mirror” remains one of my favorite TOS episodes. Now, I understand that many fans LOVE the Mirror Universe (or MU, as anyone who doesn’t read Marvel Comics is allowed to abbreviate it). We interrupt this season’s main plotline about the Burn for a 2-part return to the Mirror Universe.
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