Enterprise: Mirrors and Darkness

[thebitterguy]

Part two was not as satisfying as the first one. I guess I hit my Fan Service Saturation Point at the 90 minute mark, but I just started thinking "I wish we had the main universe characters to show up and kick their asses."

The Gorn was a bit TOO CGI (but the foreshadowing of its presence in part 1 was nicely done), but interesting enough.

Ah, well. Still an acceptable two hours of Trek. Good penultimate story.

Comments

[kinra.livejournal.com]

I personally thought Sato was better in part 2... but the lameness of "all those important people on the Avenger/Venture" (I can never clearly hear Trek dialogue) was pretty weak.

And I'm still waiting for *actual* connections to the "non-mirror" universe.

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

And I'm still waiting for *actual* connections to the "non-mirror" universe.

They deliberately avoided that. TOS' "Mirror, Mirror" is obviously our universe's first encounter with the mirror universe, so instead of coming up with some convoluted crossover and explaining why no one in TOS knew about it, they just set the whole story in the other universe.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

And mirror T'Pol is so hideously unsympathetic!

[dawgstar.livejournal.com]

I thought the ending was a nice touch. They never have seemed to give her 'our universe' counterpart much to do.

But, yeah. Sometimes the Gorn threatened to turn into a raptor.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

1. T'pol was actually pretty hot in this one. Maybe i'm just biased against catsuits or something.

2. The dialogue was horrible. Anything that wasn't boring, poorly-integrated exposition were threats that sounded more petulant and whiny than intimidating. I'm thinking of producing a subtitled version so i don't have to listen to the damn thing.

3. Since when was the mirror universe another divergent timeline? The doubletude seems to imply that there's something more going on there than just a different turn of events...

RE #3

[thebitterguy]

Phlox's investigations did seem to indicate that their background is generally a less compassionate one. Amusingly enough, Shakespeare's Quality of Mercy speech is the example that is used in the Dark Mirror book, whereas in this episode he said that Shakespeare was pretty much unchanged.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

First you like the first episode of new Who more than I do. Then you like Trek more than I do (didn't care much for the first part, passing on this one).

Heck, we're IN the mirror universe.

[(Anonymous)]

Tread no further, those who've not seen this episode!

Dumb trivia: the Avenger was NX-09. So sez StarTrek.com. The mirror universe has been busy...

The goatees were back!

About the only thing that I found wanting in this episode was the end. Yes, OK, change in power, but that doesn't really explain how one 23rd century ship doesn't influence technology until the TOS people come around.

And obviously Archer didn't know to slap the Gorn's "ears" real hard. But seeing the Gorn get crushed under 20G's was really fun.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. Miks. That's me. Gotta get an LJ account so I stop posting anonymously.

[terminal-pariah.livejournal.com]

I lost interest in Enterprise after the first few episodes, but a friend of mine introduced me to Mirrors and Darkness on Saturday and all I could think was, "Rick Berman is sitting in hospital with a broken leg, screaming 'they're ruining my show!!!!'"

But yeah: a great Trek series will get made in five years, shortly after someone blows Berman's brains out.