The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

I watched The Mind of Evil, a Doctor Who episode featuring the Third
Doctor. The Master's up to no good again, but the Doctor gets it solved
in the end.

I also watched more ST:TOS. "Mirror, Mirror" is a fun look into a
parallel universe in which the Terran Empire dominates via ruthless
force. Evil Kirk is a little dim; he seems convinced his normal crew has >mutinied, despite how different everything looks. Maybe being evil is
hard on the mind.

This episode was really just for fun. It sure hit us hard, though; has
any Trek installment *not* interacted with this other universe?

Uhura was super-erotic, and Mirror Spock was a more fully-drawn
character who loved manipulating his dim captain.

In "The Apple," Kirk happily barges into a native civilization and
wrecks it. In this case he's mostly justified, since Vaal was trying to >destroy the Enterprise, but he's still awfully cavalier about it. After >killing the natives' protector god, he makes no apology. Instead, he
makes a self-important little speech about how they'll like this
*better* once they get used to it, while they stare at him like kids
who've had all their devices taken away and are being told to read
books.

Gene Roddenberry had a real thing for challenging gods. It's a very
Golden Age attitude.

It was badly written. If the ship hadn't been attacked, then gee, the
script could have concentrated on the morality of Kirk's interference.
But the ship was attacked and Vaal had to be destroyed.

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In <1092aoq$3epgc$1@dont-email.me> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:

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Uhura was super-erotic, and Mirror Spock was a more fully-drawn
character who loved manipulating his dim captain.

"I push you away and you're supposed to come back.
"You didn't come back..."

(damn, I watched that six decades ago....)

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The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

I watched The Mind of Evil, a Doctor Who episode featuring the Third
Doctor. The Master's up to no good again, but the Doctor gets it solved
in the end.

I also watched more ST:TOS. "Mirror, Mirror" is a fun look into a
parallel universe in which the Terran Empire dominates via ruthless
force. Evil Kirk is a little dim; he seems convinced his normal crew has mutinied, despite how different everything looks. Maybe being evil is
hard on the mind.

This episode was really just for fun. It sure hit us hard, though; has
any Trek installment *not* interacted with this other universe?

Most of them.
Voyager did not
TNG did not
TAS did not
DS9 did and they were excellent
A note about Enterprise:
Enterprise had a mirror two parter the first half of which was actually
pretty good and the second half of which was absolutely terrible. Now,
since Enterprise is just an imaginary tale, being played out as a holo
novel on the Enterprise D, it could be argued that it should count as a TNG episode.

In "The Apple," Kirk happily barges into a native civilization and
wrecks it. In this case he's mostly justified, since Vaal was trying to destroy the Enterprise, but he's still awfully cavalier about it. After killing the natives' protector god, he makes no apology. Instead, he
makes a self-important little speech about how they'll like this
*better* once they get used to it, while they stare at him like kids
who've had all their devices taken away and are being told to read
books.

Gene Roddenberry had a real thing for challenging gods. It's a very
Golden Age attitude.

What did everyone else watch?

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danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

In <1092aoq$3epgc$1@dont-email.me> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:

[snip]

Uhura was super-erotic, and Mirror Spock was a more fully-drawn
character who loved manipulating his dim captain.

"I push you away and you're supposed to come back.
"You didn't come back..."

(damn, I watched that six decades ago....)

But that was real Uhura, pretending. We didn’t see much of mirror Uhura.

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The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <1167059223.778380221.786650.anim8rfsk- cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this message:

This episode was really just for fun. It sure hit us hard, though; has
any Trek installment *not* interacted with this other universe?

Most of them.
Voyager did not
TNG did not
TAS did not
DS9 did and they were excellent

TNG did so several times.

Siri says TNG never visited the mirror universe unless you count the time
that Worf was just hopping between infinite universes and it might’ve been
in there somewhere and nobody noticed.

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