ST: Enterprise - A Mirror Darkly

[jeriendhal]

Stayed up till 10pm watching this, which was a major mistake. Sleep has been broken all night and work is going to crappy as hell today because of that.

Nevertheless, I don't regret watching this ep. I've never seen an episode of any of the post-TOS series so geekily obsessive about TOS continuity. Or one that was so freaking note perfect on how play a bunch of evil paranoids. Though Archer's twisted Jiminy Cricket really didn't help mask that Scott Bakula has all the gravitas of a paper airplane.

Um, was there an episode after this that explained why the Mirror Universe in Kirk's time didn't have tech equiivlent to TNG?

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[czarzhan.livejournal.com]

When I saw it a couple months ago (has it been over a year?), it seemed like the second part of two. It might have: I quit Enterprise after the start of season 2, and this ep made me regret it.

I always assumed the reason they didn't advance to TNG levels was that the Empress didn't share her technology, keeping her edge/security blanket until it no longer mattered. She also would have made sure the ship's origin remained a secret, explaining why Kirk-2 and Spock-2 didn't know about the other universe in "Mirror, Mirror".