Mirror Odo let the "sir" rule go right out the window after Bashir said it once? Hmm.
The worst part of this episode is Bashir in the opening scene. Just about all the obnoxious or just plain wrong-seeming character moments can be explained away later in the episode, because it's the Mirror Universe and nobody is sane. But opening-scene Bashir is worse than he was in the first season. I'd just as soon forget that first exchange happened, he's so overbearing to Kira.
On the flip side, the episode's best quality is showing us a bit of what happened on the other side of the looking glass after Kirk's little escapade in the original Star Trek series. From the viewer's perspective, anyway. For the actors, I'd wager the best part was getting to play someone different. Except Siddig. He didn't get to play his counterpart. Oh, and I guess Terry Farrell got most of the shooting schedule off because she didn't appear on the other side at all.
Somewhere in the middle, we have my slight disappointment at how much more we could have seen of the mirror characters if there'd been more time. Occasionally, an episode of these later Star Trek series feels like there was enough potential material for a second half. This was one of them—though we get not one, not two, but four more mirror-universe episodes over the next five seasons, so I really can't complain.
Review by dgwVIP 10BlockedParent2018-03-14T23:41:18Z
Mirror Odo let the "sir" rule go right out the window after Bashir said it once? Hmm.
The worst part of this episode is Bashir in the opening scene. Just about all the obnoxious or just plain wrong-seeming character moments can be explained away later in the episode, because it's the Mirror Universe and nobody is sane. But opening-scene Bashir is worse than he was in the first season. I'd just as soon forget that first exchange happened, he's so overbearing to Kira.
On the flip side, the episode's best quality is showing us a bit of what happened on the other side of the looking glass after Kirk's little escapade in the original Star Trek series. From the viewer's perspective, anyway. For the actors, I'd wager the best part was getting to play someone different. Except Siddig. He didn't get to play his counterpart. Oh, and I guess Terry Farrell got most of the shooting schedule off because she didn't appear on the other side at all.
Somewhere in the middle, we have my slight disappointment at how much more we could have seen of the mirror characters if there'd been more time. Occasionally, an episode of these later Star Trek series feels like there was enough potential material for a second half. This was one of them—though we get not one, not two, but four more mirror-universe episodes over the next five seasons, so I really can't complain.