Star Trek TOS: Episode 33 - MIRROR, MIRROR

"A transporter mishap slips Captain Kirk and his companions into a parallel universe, where the Enterprise serves a barbaric Empire instead of the Federation."

A great mirror universe episode, aka Spock's Beard. But the reason that this episode is so excellent comes from three very unlikely sources ... Uhuru, Sulu and Chekov. I'm typically a Uhura hater but I must have forgotten about this episode because she is pretty damn bad ass. This is also an amazing performance from George Takei as he plays a menacing Sulu, also Chekov has a short but down right evil scene as well.

Luckily Kirk has been sent into this parallel universe with a capable team. I mean imagine if he had gone down to the planet with half-naked dumb blonde and black guy that's bound to get killed? He would never have made it back to his universe. But, he has Scotty and McCoy and they figure out a way to get back to the right place.

Barbara Luna at 70 yrs old!

Of course Kirk has to meet up with a hot chick, it's bound to happen.  And even in the face of possible execution (by defying the orders of the Empire) he still finds time to make-out. The woman (Barbara Luna) is scantily clad but then goes into the other room to "slip into something more comfortable" and comes out wearing more clothes! Boy this place really is backwards. I wonder if in this universe "New Adventures of Old Christine" is actually watchable ... or if Kirk has internal genitalia? These are the hard hitting questions people!

 

The cool thing is that even in a parallel universe Spock is pretty much the same guy. He helps Kirk and crew to make it home. But before they leave Kirk convinces Spock ala Beard that the Empire is wrong, and that they should be peaceful. Should he really be messing with an alternate universe like this? I mean, it's ALTERNATE for a reason right? As they are about to beam back Kirk's alternate wife holds them at gunpoint because she wants to go back with them ... and Uhura disarms her. Now back in the right universe Kirk meets the current version of his "wife" as a newly assigned Lt.

As a kid I remember not liking this episode because I always found alternate universe stuff to be so unbelievable. But now that I'm way older and I know that there is actually theory behind this stuff, I find it far more interesting.

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