Season 4
Episode 95 In A Mirror Darkly, Part II
Evil Archer takes command of the Defiant and learns of his alternate self. Evil Archer who is typically passive, weak, lacking ambition becomes inspired by this news. He sets out to prove himself as a competent leader. He takes tons of different struggles head-on.
Evil Archer fights a Gorn! Star Trek only ever saw the Gorn in the original series episode Arena where Kirk fights a man in a rubber lizard suit. It’s actually a great TOS episode but limited by its costumes, so it has a lot of campiness to it. Enterprise makes a much more menacing CGI Gorn for Archer to defeat.
The Defiant’s memory banks holding an alternate history of events also influence other characters in the mirror verse and cause a rebellion lead by T’Pol. The revolt ultimately fails and Archer maintains his power. Archer then sets his sights on taking over the empire.
As Archer celebrates his victories, he’s betrayed by Evil Sato who kills him, takes command of the ship, goes to Earth, and declares herself Empress. It’s a silly twist but it closes out the episode.
It’s another brilliant episode and incorporates so much of Star Trek into the show. The ending is a little silly but since they are all evil and the Empire doesn’t fall until the time of Kirk and Spock, there’s no real way to craft a resolution that isn’t an entire season of episodes. Therefore the twist with Sato resolves everything and let’s us move back to the main universe stories. The best part is all the original series paraphernalia that’s used via the USS Defiant whose origins are from said series. The costumes, phasers, ship design are all beautifully designed and fun to watch.
Written by
Joseph Ammendolea
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“I Like To Play With Toys” Productions®
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