Friday, April 17, 2015

Star Trek DS9 Episode 162 - The Emperor's New Cloak

"Quark and Rom cross into the alternate universe to rescue Grand Nagus Zek."

This mirror universe is seriously the most flawed plot in Star Trek history. DS9 should never have used it more than two times, because the more they show the mirror universe the more it exposes inaccuracies.

So, Nagus Zek steals secrets for a cloaking device and takes them into the mirror universe to sell them for profit (a. is the currency even usable in the real world. b. cloaking devices already exist in mirror world, as seen in earlier episodes). Nagus gets arrested or something and Rom and Quark go to save him. Which they eventually do. Not much else going on, other than all of the females in the mirror universe are lovers for some reason. Kira is matched up with Ezri (who in this universe is a sexy vixen) and then at the end it seems like Leeta is also involved with Ezri. It's just a weird twist, but if you think about it ... in the real universe Kira is dating Odo, Leeta is married to Rom and Ezri/Dax was married to Worf. If these are your fucking options for men, than might as well just go for the women. Anyway, there is a scene were Kira says to Ezri "I have to debrief you now" and Ezri says "This must be my lucky day". Who wrote this episode, Larry Flint???

162 down and 14 to go

2 comments:

Unknown said...

In the Mirror Mirror Universe, the Vic Fontaine program is actually a Doppler 5000.

capt.naps said...

i feel like the opposite of a vegas lounge singer/rat pack guy would be a rock n' roll guy. It's GG Allen