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"Your agonizer, please." Even when he's evil, Spock is polite.
Uhura backing up the bridge steps to the turbo lift without looking and putting her knife back in her thigh-high boot whilst holding eye contact with Sulu my be the most bad-ass moment in all of Trek.
Never noticed it before; thanks for pointing that out!
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100 agree but I would add to that so was her walk into the turbo lift
@@jaymedina3142 of course!
This was typical knife play in action movies of the time. Backing up holding the knife while maintaining eye contact to the last second was almost a cliché. In isolation it looks bad ass.
Now that you've seen evil Spock, you'll never get that image out of your head.
The goatee and mustache really make his face look diabolical
There is a Prog Rock band called “Spock’s Beard”
Spock himself or Nimoy was also quite the singer… that reminds me, need to get a msg to Bunny to react to Bilbo Baggins sing by Nimoy.
why would you want to?
@@joeb918Never a Tolkien fan, myself, but thanks to that song, I knew the plot of _The Hobbit._
Uhura: "Captain, I'm . . . I'm . . ." Bunny: "A little drafty?" LOL
Great chirp!
@@arsbadmojo Compared to how women dress today Uhura's outfit is tame.....
@@rogershore3128….almost Puritan. 😮
It’s no wonder Nichelle Nichols looked amazing in the “drafty” uniform…Lol. She was professional dancer and needed to be in tremendous shape.
One of the best Classic Star Trek episodes. 🖖🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿
Yes, yes, & YES.
Absolutely! And the STC follow-up episode ‘Fairest Of Them All’ is extremely well done, too 👍
My number one.
1 -Mirror mirror
2 - corbomite,
3 city on the edge,
4 - ok corral.
@@mcbeezee2120 Actually my favorite episode.
Uhura's greatest episode. Perhaps Sulu's as well.
One of the best lines of all time: "In every revolution, there is one man with a vision."
GREAT drama!
Yes. This is the most ensemble episode of TOS
Agree. Best line in the whole series imo. And Spock's answer was just as good. "I shall consider it."
The final speech in this episode is one of my favourite Trek moments ever. Kirk rousingly planting a seed of hope, and evil Spock not being beyond redemption .. and Kirk telling him he can use the secret 'remote murder' device!
One my favs too.
Mega-dittos on that Kirk speech. Don't know who wrote it, but they knocked it out of the park with that one.
@mcbeezee, the writer for this episode is Jerome Bixby. He also wrote "Day of the Dove", "Requiem for Methuselah", and "By Any Other Name" for the original series.
He also wrote a short story called “It's a Good Life” which was adapted for a Twilight Zone episode of the same name.
He mostly wrote short stories, but he's also noteable for having co-writing for the movie the Fantastic Voyage.
@mikefoster, indeed, this is core Star Trek ethos here. Like fundamentally what makes Star Trek well, Star Trek, something that all the shows that came after it at some level have at their bedrock with this episode. That the future of a society isn’t set in stone, that what we do right now in the present moment matters.
Talk about unforeseen consequences 🤣😂
The actor who played the leader of the Halkan Council was the voice of Nomad.
Scotty calling his captain Jim. There is so much emotion conveyed with one word.🖖
Also the voice of the alien metron in Arena.
@@Ravenscroft82 Also the voice of Dr. Zin if you're a Jonny Quest fan, and also the voice you hear at the beginning of each episode of the Outer Limits telling you that they are controlling your TV and so forth.
Vic Perrin.
@@Ravenscroft82 WOW!! never knew that. Thanks.
Also, the voice of Johnny quest is one of the main stars of the movie animal House
That Kirk can walk away from Barbara Luna shows otherworldly strength.
Good point! There's a fantastic interview with her on RUclips, I think she was in her 80s, and she talks a lot about being cast for and acting in this episode.
Yes, absolutely! Barbara Luna was gorgeous, even when she was an older lady.
I can’t decide between the greatest films or tv episodes. But this, without question, one of the best. Awesome script and acting. Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock deserved about 79 Emmys ❤🎉😊
He got nominated each of the 3 years for Star Trek and 1 additional for his role as Golda Meier's husband in A Woman Called Golda opposite Ingrid Bergman.
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"That's why he's a doctor - not anything else." One of your best observations! Given how iconic McCoy's "I'm a doctor, not a _____" is, your description sums it up succinctly. Bravo!
Now we have to see Mirror Bunny.
Will Mirror Bunny mess up a Hoppy Easter?
@@chrisgarrett1257 I expect a beard.
@iffy-fox With the built-in time lag for episode releases, she has certainly had the time to come up with an Imperial uniform.
She could be my beard ❤
Would Mirror Bunny be a Rabbit?
Nothing pleases me more than knowing you went into this episode and NO ONE spoiled it. The Mirror Universe is a fan favorite.
Marlana said, "I REMEMBER WHEN YOU USED TO TALK LIKE THAT." This suggests to me that even the alternate universe Kirk isn't without hope. He's both a product of his universe but still has those unique Kirk qualities that define him. -OG
It just means that evil Kirk can be equally charming when it suits him but only until he gets what he wants.
Old Mirror Kirk she knew didn't always have the execution at a distance deice: it's made him lazy...
The mirror universe was such a creative way to re-write characters in an unexpected way. It really does lend itself to some creative story telling. As a kid, I thought that Spock with a goatee was the most bad-ass thing I'd ever seen!
Barbara Luna to this day, is one of my favorite female guest stars in all 57 years of Star Trek! The man who was the spokesperson on the planet, he was the voice from the original TV show the "Outer Limits", he was the host whom you heard but never saw. That uniform worn by Uhura is spectacular, or more accurately, SHE was simply spectacular in it!! The interaction with her and Sulu on the bridge where she goes all BADASS on him...freaking amazing!
Jolene Blalock in "Enterprise" holds her own in the mirror outfit as well. *Whew!*
There is an absolutely top-shelf fan produced sequel to this episode called "The Fairest Of Them All" over at the Star Trek Continues RUclips channel. Highly recommend checking it out in your spare time. The actors do a highly impressive job of taking over the classic roles and James Doohan's son Chris Doohan plays Scotty. He nails it.
The Star Trek Continues episides are worth watching
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@@JarvistheKnightabsolutely! Especially the last two episodes. Man, they got at the very core of me.😢
Progressive rock band SPOCK'S BEARD formed in 1992. Rock on, and live long and prosper!
A Jazz Funk track by Palm Skin Productions called 'Spock with a Beard' in the 90's too!
Bunny, you could totally rock a Mirror Universe Uhura outfit. 😁🔥
My favorite episode. The speech at the end is one of the best, with Kirk inspiring Spock to do things differently. Every minute of this ep is brilliant!
What you said about Marlena leaving Sulu alive. I think it's because she was leveling the field to make it a fair fight, and she knew Kirk was strong enough to win. At the end, she wanted to leave and go with our Kirk, so she didn't want to be with Sulu if he had become captain.
Spock with the goatee, Sulu with the scar, Uhura with the crop top. I love this episode.
There's a band called Spock's Beard.
Uhura changed from "I'm frighten" to expert "hand to hand" combat. Great score by Alexander Courage kept the plot energy at a high level.
I like to think that this alternate universe was created as a separate timeline from when McCoy went back in time and saved Edith Keeler and Hitler took over the world.
That is my theory too.
The original script for the episode "City on the Edge of Forever" included scenes where Kirk and the rest of his landing party briefly wind up in a version of an Enterprise much like the Mirror Universe one (before using the Guardian to go after McCoy - or rather the original character originally created as the problem - in the past), so that idea actually makes even more sense than you might realize.
The timeline origins are later covered in Enterprise. All hail Queen Hoshi!
@@maxducoudray First of all, no spoilers. Secondly, That is just one point of the timeline, not the beginning of it.
The Terran Empire started long before then
"The booth?" "Yes, the booth." Under the circumstances, Capt. Kirk might want to find out what he's saying "yes" to.
I love how easily the "good" Enterprise crew handles the "bad" visitors. It suggests that for all its bluster and bullying, evil is ultimately weaker and more prone to mistakes.
If he had refused, it would be out of character for their Kirk and raised suspicion. Besides, evil Chekov did have it coming.for conspiring to kill his Captain. He knew the price of failure and tried anyway.
In every revolution, there's ONE MAN WITH A VISION!
Terror must be maintained or the empire is doomed.
this is where all the memes of goatees being the dark version started.
On thing I noticed in this episode that was unusual... Scotty called Kirk, "Jim" a rare occurrence.
It was the first AND only time Scotty referred to Kirk as "Jim".
Great reaction as usual. Very insightful observation on why Sulu did not get zapped, never considered that before.
I've been a Star Trek TOS fan for almost 50 years. I watched it with my parents when I was growing up. It never occurred to me to watch someone else react to it, and many reaction videos are people that don't seem to get it. Your reactions are, far and away, the best. You are a perceptive and sensitive young lady. Consider me a fan, and a subscriber.
the best kirk speech of all trek. i cry almost every time i hear it
This seems to be the first time the multiverse concept was used in popular media.
Yeah, now every schoolkid knows automatically what a multiverse is, but when i grew up this was ultranerd knowledge for just a few. This episode blew my mind back then
The 'Star Trek Continues' episode 'Fairest of Them All' is a direct sequel to this episode. Mirror universe episodes pop up in other Trek series...
The continuation of this story of the Mirror Universe with Spock and Kirk continues in the Star Trek novels Spectre, Dark Victory and Preserver. They're really well written novels.
This is the timeline where Edith Keeler survives..
Actually that's an interesting thought. Even their salute supports that.
Agreed, and while that wasn't the explicit intent it makes sense given future use of parallel universes in the Trek franchise.
A 2- part story in Enterprise showed when the Mirror Universe diverged from the Regular Universe. It showed a different ending to Star Trek First Contact. Where the humans killed the Vulcans when they landed on Earth. It became the Terran Empire instead of the Federation.
@@SKIP-yj3xp Seeing how Enterprise (and the rest of the TNG movies) is a product of a post-First Contact timeline, I consider that a different Terran Empire.
I'll buy that. Great speculation.
KIRK: What I don't understand is how were you able to identify our counterparts so quickly?
SPOCK: It was far easier for you as civilised men to behave like barbarians, than it was for them as barbarians to behave like civilised men.
Epic Spock quote
Soooo... Uhura was also a civilized *man?* Whoa. Uhura is trans-gender. No wonder she kicks ass. Mind blown.
The hair you liked - that was called a “fall” in the 60s/70s. In the days of bouffants, it was another version of big hair. The back that was so big and high was a hair piece. Lots of gals were wearing them😁
Doctor Who William Hartnell also wears a 'fall' hairpiece as the First Doctor. Set pictures show it both on and off.
"I like the uniforms though". Excellent and funny as heck.
This is one of those episodes that just ZOOMS!! by, it is so immersing.
They had so many ideas, there’s no padding here whatsoever.
This is one of my all time favorite episodes of Star Trek(TOS). Thanks for uploading the episode and sharing with us your reaction.
That's one of the best, most well-known Star Trek episodes. Iconic!
One of my favorites. The first use of the "parallel universe" concept in television I can remember.
Except for Twilight Zone's excellent episode "The Parallel" in 1963.
If that were Ohura's standard uniform, TOS would have had twice the viewers.
Bare midriffs on fit people seem to work for the majority of viewers.
Since Majel Barrett (nurse Chapel, Number One on Pike's ship) does almost all Federation computer voices (from TOS through the first reboot movie), I wondered who did the voice in this episode. It was John Winston (transporter chief Kyle), who probably found it easier than being subjected to the agonizer.
I had thought it was James Doohan's voice. He also did M5's voice and the commodore's voice on "The Ultimate Computer"
@@donfoley6946 I use MemoryAlpha for Star Trek trivia.
The article "Compuer Voice" lists most of the actors who did the computers. Winston is the voice for this ep.
(They forgot to include Doohan on that page, even though he is credited for the MI-5 voice in the episode info for "The Ultimate Computer". You could make the edit for the Comp Voice page.)
"I love Captain Kirk."
Correct. 😁
My very favorite episode. That is saying a lot because I truly love a handful of them.
One of my personal top ten TOS episodes. I can imagine Shatner, Koenig, Takei, and Nimoy had great fun playing alternate versions of themselves. Though Shatner already got to do that in The Enemy Within. The mirror Kirk was pretty similar to that Kirk. A Kirk without the good qualities. Only those of self preservation and a lust for power.
I also love that this episode originated the trope that the evil twin has a beard.
Very fun watching you react to these shows. As someone who has loved Trek for decades, it's a blast seeing you respond to these scenes for the first time! I hope you keep doing these.
There’s a book called ‘The sorrows of empire’ that is a continuation of what happened in the in the alternate universe after Kirk beamed out.
Thanks for the reference!!!
Actor Russ Peak played Spock's Vulcan bodyguard in this episode. He also plays the executioner in "Amok Time", and he is in two other episodes in Season Two: "The Apple" and "Journey to Babel".
One of the best episodes of TOS. Thanks for your great reaction/review. 💚
Enterprise did a really good two part episodes of (in the Mirror Darkly ) which mirrored this TOS episode.
It actually tied together at least three ST:TOS episodes: This one, another one that we've already seen, and one more that's still to come. It's clear that they had a lot of fun with that 2-parter, having changed many of the unique characteristics of the series to fit the episode.
I hope that you decide to review episodes of Star Trek Enterprise one day. But we have to get through the animated series, TNG, Deep Space Nine and Voyager first.
BT, this was another example of how Star Trek was a leader in the changing times that was the sixties, you saw women's belly buttons in this episode, something Barbara Eden in "I Dream of Jeannie" and Dawn Welles in "Gilligan's Island" were never allowed to do, because of TV censorship, still to come the kiss seen around the world?
You'll never know just how lucky you are watching these and not knowing every single scene to come.
Bunny, you bring up the deep and classic question of "nature vs nurture." It seems that on a spectrum of "good to evil", we are born somewhere on the spectrum. But depending upon our consistent upbringing, we can be "trained" or swayed in one direction or the other, whether toward more good or more evil. Your deep thoughtfulness and questioning is a large part of what makes this podcast worth watching. This is a fantastic episode! And yes, it also does make me think of "The Enemy Within".
"This thing comes from the universe where Spock has a beard" is one of my standard expostulations when faced with something acting unnecessarily or perversely evil. Devices, mechanical parts, software... that universe has apparently exported SO much to us.
Such a fantastic episode. It must've been so much fun for the actors to slip into (for the most part) completely different personalities.
I was born in 1966 when TOS first aired, to a young Mom who was a huge fan of ST (and in her mid-70’s, still is to this day).
We grew up watching all these episodes over and over again together. - But what I love about watching YOUR reactions, is that I feel like I’m also seeing it thru HER eyes for the 1st time (when I would have been too young to remember watching with her).
So thank you for that. ♥️
Easily one of the best of the franchise. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
This is one of the best episodes for Uhura and one of the reasons why people like Uhura is because of how much she got to do in this episode and this season more than the other seasons.
I really enjoyed this episode, was so pleased that Uhura had more to do. Again, another fun and enjoyable reaction and commentary. Live long and prosper Bunny Tails
1:52 And Uhura showed her belly button!
I didn't think about it before now, but Star Trek kept fighting the censors, and got away with it in this episode.
"As writer Bjo Trimble revealed at a Star Trek convention, she took the NBC Standards & Practices official out for a long lunch on the day they filmed the pertinent scenes in order to keep the network from finding out. The violation slipped through and the episode made it to the air, going on to become an influential classic."
Bunny, I honestly felt like a little boy again, watching you react to this episode just like I did. I was smiling from ear to ear, remembering the awe, surprise and excitement I felt when first watching “Spock with a beard”…..😆
You’re the best! 🖖🖖🖖
Aww thanks!
"I'm the same too."
You're not the same. You're constantly learning and growing and improving. Every day is a chance to be a better version of you.
Speaking of Uhura’s uniform, this was one of the first few times a woman’s belly button was shown. The people behind the scenes had to fight the censors just to push the boundaries of what can be shown on screen. Uhura and Marlena definitely paved a way however that may be seen.
BT you are not just empathically inclined but an intellectual I always enjoy your perspectives in the videos we watch with you.
Because of this episode, you'll notice all the other TV shows that have an "evil twin" who has a goatee, or make fun of evil counterparts that have goatees; Community, South Park, etc.
This one was always a favorite of mine, and a favorite of fans and probably the producers, since at least two other Star Trek shows visited the mirror universe. "Enterprise" was set before Kirk's time, and "Deep Space Nine" after Kirk, so a parallel Kirk would have existed in that dimension and reality as well. Your question of how he would have acted as captain under those circumstances is an interesting one. Have to give that more thought. Remember, this was an empire, not a federation. My opinion is that if Kirk was the man we know in our universe, it's unlikely that he ever would have made it to the command of a ship. Whether he could have ever led a revolution from where he would be, I don't know.
As Kirk and Spock were doing a walk and talk through the mirror Enterprise, Kirk tells him "conquest is easy, control is not." This is one of the big lessons of the ancient Roman empire, where some of them found it easier to stay on the frontiers and conquer than to come back to Rome and probably be killed.
In my fantasy world, mirror Spock and Marlena team up, and using his brain and the device, eventually take down the empire. Don't know if they can do it in time to save the Halkins (Halkens?) though.
As always a brilliant reaction from you. This is my favourite episode of TOS.
Uhura 's greatest episode..she was indeed a total badass in this ...what a shame the show never showcased her like this again ..
One cannot even imagine the horrors revenge-inclined telepathic Vulcans could inflict.
Kirk smashed a skull on Spock's head. That's hitting pretty hard.
This is one of my top favorites of TOS!
Enjoyed this episode. Its special when an episode can consume the viewer to a point where one forgets their problems for a while
What i found interesting is that there were 3 characters the same in the alternative universe.... Spock, the leader of the Halkans and the transporter chief. It implies that there were two types of humans in this universe, ones with no moral compass, others that do and the one's without the moral compass won. In essence another Roman Empire. Why would Kirk be the way he is. Simple, in such a world you have to be ruthless to be a survivor or become a slave which is what is implied with the Transporter Chief. 40 years ago I remember having a neighbour who was Jewish who survived a concentration camp and a lot of their friends were German and I asked her why they didn't help. She just replied. "They were scared and wanted to survive". "To help me was to commit suicide" That comment has haunted me to this day....
Agree 100%. In any authoritarian empire, people either lead, follow or stay out of the way and try to stay alive. People collaborate, they submit, they obey. More aggressive people will compete for power and status.
@@Stogie2112 Agree. For every Hardy Krüger there are a thousand cowards willing to submit... It is depressing but has happened countless times throughout history...... We never learn as a species....
@@rogershore3128 ... Human nature, if it is progressing, is doing it very slowly.
A favorite of mine and many others. Glad they got back to the other ship before you died of curiosity 😅
Maybe my 2nd favorite TOS episode. Uhura's contribution was fantastic.
Everyone has both a light and dark side, the mirror Kirk grew up in a society where the dark personality is rewarded and the light personality is suppressed. In our society the lighter side of a person's personality is generally rewarded while the dark is suppressed. There are those who struggle with suppressing their darkside, they generally wind up being career criminals.
Wow, that seems totally backwards to me! Our society is much more like the Federation "empire" society -- perpetually at war, committing genocide after genocide, chasing our own demise. Those with the darkest impulses -- power hungry, greedy, ruthless, and amoral -- generally rise to leadership positions in the U.S. empire, do they not? And as the world outside of the U.S. bubble clearly understands, our days are numbered.
Someone else may have shared this, but the fan-made _STAR TREK CONTINUES_ (channel of same name) made a sequel to this entitled _"Fairest of them All."_ I've seen it before years back, but forgot most of it, so I'm watching it again right now. One thing's for sure, their production value is off the charts. IMO they are certainly worthy of a glance. They've also done a sequel to _"Who Mourns for Adonais?"_ which stars the same actor who played _Apollo_ in that role again. Personally, I think they did an excellent job story-wise.
*EDIT:* Oh, the _Apollo_ story is entitled _"Pilgrim of Eternity."_
The Apollo episode was their first, and hadn't found their footing yet, but "Fairest of them All" was EXCELLENT.
As you pointed out, Bunny, we saw in The Enemy Within that Kirk already has the ruthlessness of his mirror universe counterpart within him. I think the only difference between the two Kirks is the environment they exist in.
3:13 "Man. Uhura... she's _cut."_
Oh, yeah. She was in _shape._ This episode probably served to introduce her to _many_ a fantasy file.
I had forgotten that this episode was in the second season. I dug it to _no end._
And apparently, a _lot_ of people dug it, as you can tell from the subculture of _lampoons_ it spawned. _South Park_ had an episode with all our heroes jumping to a mirror universe where everyone had a goatee. There was an episode of _Stargate SG-1_ that had interactions between our team and a team from another universe and Colonel O'Neill took to referring to them as "the guys with the goatees."
There exist photos of Ms. Nichols dancing and performing alongside her husband and band before and after Star Trek.
There exist photos of her perfoming ballet moves in Star Trek costumes behind the scenes during production. Yep, she was extremely fit and her legs are amazing.
who would have guessed THEN that the mirror universe would become an integral part of the franchise?? 😊
For any and all T.O.S. purists out here, there's a wonderful tribute channel on you tube called STAR TREK CONTINUES. It is a continuation of the original program in every way. The cast is great, and it's complete right down to the original sets, uniforms, music, and special effects. One of the episodes of this series is the conclusion of mirror mirror. It begins just as Kirk gives his speech to Spock and departs back to his Enterprise. The rest of the episode takes place aboard the I.S.S. Enterprise, and you see how Spock decides to act with his own Captain Kirk back in command. It's engrossing and very well written. Well worth the time to watch it.
Apocrypha!
Purists would _not_ consider that to be a "canonic" story. 😒👎
Absolutely one of my favorite episodes of all time.
Yeah, this was one of the biggest fan fav episodes of them all, it was amazing.
Nature or nurture ... an ongoing debate. When split, the aggressive half was necessary. We are just a half-step out of the jungle.
The best mirror episodes were in Enterprise a two part episode with alternate title sequence also. They went all out for that one.
Nice to see someone mention this. Had Enterprise ran another season, as it should have, we would have had a sequel to that two part "mirror" episode.
That Enterprise story showed when the Mirror Universe diverged from the Regular Universe. It showed a different ending to Star Trek First Contact. Where the humans killed the Vulcans when they landed on Earth.
@bunnytailsREACTS The Hulkan guy is played by Vic Perrin, who voiced NOMAD in the previous episode. The costumes, including Uhura's and Marlaina's, was once again made by the fabously talented William Ware Theiss. Any costume on the show, this man created. His work is legendary.
The mirror universe Terrian Empire works effectively opposite of the Federation. Wherein our universe, humans are generally good people with the occasional evil, the mirror universe humans are generally _evil_ people with the occasional good. It's a sort of reversal of the assumption that a stranger will be kind - there, you would assume a stranger would be mean and cruel so you need to be mean and cruel back, and _first_.
Star Trek was about a five year mission, but the original show was cancelled after only 3 years. The animated series served as the fourth, but the final year was undocumented. The mid 2000s fan series Star Trek Continues serves as the final year. In that, there is a _direct_ continuation of _Mirror Mirror_ taking place immediately after evil Kirk returns to the ISS Enterprise. It's fantastic and I cannot recommend it enough.
You need to watch Star Trek Continues’ episode “Fairest of them All” which is an amazing fan-produced sequel to “Mirror, Mirror.” Their other episodes are quite good, too.
Wasn't the moment right before they beamed back wonderful! Kirk telling Spock how he could be the man to change the state of his universe and Spock saying he would consider it. I get emotional every time I see that. I have to mention the fantastic music in that scene scored by Fred Steiner.
A good followup to this would be the fan film Star Trek Continues Episode 3: Fairest of Them All, which takes up directly where Mirror, Mirror left off.
Oh, yes! It's seamless. The actress who plays Marlena in that sequel episode is the daughter of the actress who played Marlena in "Mirror, Mirror"--and she looks and sounds exactly like her mom!
And, Bunny, that sequel episode addresses all your questions!
Great episode!
@@davidgradwell8830 The Marlena actress also appears in an episode of the _Star Trek New Voyages_ fan film series, but not as Marlena. The episode is called "In Harm's Way," and it can be seen on RUclips.
Watching you watch for the 1st time makes me emotional ..it reminds of times when I introduced Star Trek to friends by watching episodes with them even though I've seen them a thousand times ❤❤❤
The excellent fan series Star Trek Continues has as sequel to this episode, entitled The Fairest of Them All that picks up the events of the mirror universe literally where this one leaves off. Highly recommended.
Vic Perrin the actor who played the Halkon chancellor in this episode, also did the voice for the Metron in Arean and Nomad in the Changling.
I've been looking forward to this one.
The episode is just beginning and I know you are going to absolutely love this one.
And might I suggest the follow up to this episide, made by a group of actors/film students.
The series is called star trek continues. It was made 10 years ago, made to look like the original series. It's supposed to be original series characters but obviously they had to be played by younger actors so if you decide to watch it, please keep an open mind. The guy playing scotty is James Doohan' son James Doohan so that's a plus.
I highly recommend episode three called "Fairest of Them All"
It basically continues the story from this episode, from the moment when good kirk tells evil spock to rebel against evil kirk. They did such a fantastic job in that episode.
It's equal to, if not better than this episode and it makes this story even better.
Please watch it. You won't be dissatisfied.
Kirk: “Spock with a beard?” (Kirk thinking “And Uhura with these f**king ABS? Holy Hell!)
There is a fan-made series called Star Trek Continues. Their 3rd episode (produced in 2014) is connected to this one. It is called Fairest of Them All. IMO...very well done.
The fan production Star Trek Continues produced a very good followup episode to this episode called Fairest Of Them All wherein we see what happens when the Mirror Kirk and landing party return to their universe.
The Imperial Star Ship Enterprise has the spikes on the Bussard collectors like the early models of the star ship used for the show.
Another nice touch is that the Empire has a dagger through the Earth on doors, corridor bulkheads and the uniforms.
That dagger says it all!
@Mike, yeah it’s a great visual representation of their society… like a knife through the heart of Earth.
In fact you can watch what happens in the Mirror universe, the follow up is a fanmade episode from Star Trek Continues that should have been made and was written back then named "The Fairest of them all." where Spock acts onto our Kirk's last speech.
As for the origins of the Mirror Universe, we don't know, it might have happened in the Antiquity during Roman era, in the 18th Century (a Star Fleet crew was transported back to the US Independance War and contaminated George Washington with more ideas of violence) or during First Contact in the 21st Century when the first species ambassador to contact us was killed on the spot instead of greeted... We might even not know if all those versions would refer to the same Mirror Universe, the beauty of the Multiverse theory is that they can apply to three different univeeses.
However the concept of Mirror Universe will have changed Star Trek for ever, you might not know what might come...
Great episode. Great speech by Kirk at the end! A great Uhura and Sulu and Spock episode. And Barbara Luna too! What more could a Trekker ask for!! And I certainly 100 percent agree with you bout Barbara Luna. Yes she is veeeery cute!! I am glad she made it onto at least one ep of TOS! On the Star Trek TOS blooper reel Nimoy and Kelly start laughing during the mind meld scene! Fred Steiner's wonderfully sumptuous and romantic score for this episode too is very memorable and was used in a number of other episodes.! Hey bunnytails that is pretty cool how you have those lights that change color on that shelf behind you. I have never seen anything like that before!
_TNG_ provided us with _one_ vision of what this universe would look like, about a century later, in a novel called _Dark Mirror._ _DS9_ provided us with one that was _very_ different, though.
In the RUclips series called Star Trek continues they pick it up when the evil foursome return to the mirror universe. You really should watch that great series. It basically is the remainder of the 5 year mission. Give it a shot after you finish the original series. It’s very well done. It’s called Star Trek Continues episode 3 “the fairest of them all.”
his is one of those well loved and well remembered Star Trek episodes. It has an impact on other things but not as big an impact as it could have. Still it is often talked about and well remembered.
One of my favorite ST original series episodes! Spock with the Goatee was coolest!!!