"I'm a doctor, not an engineer."
--McCoy
"Now you're an engineer."
--Scotty
"You want credits, Spock? I'll make you a rich man."
--Mirror-Kirk
"I've never seen perfection, but no woman could come closer to it."
--Kirk
"Regrettable that this society has chosen suicide."
--Mirror-Spock
"I'll have you all executed!"
--???
"I think not."
--???
"Jim, [let me stay]."
--Scotty (the only time he called Kirk "Jim")
PLOT
Due to a transporter malfunction, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura are
accidentally exchanged with their counterparts in a parallel universe,
where the Federation is a violent, dictatorial Empire. In the alternate
universe, the crew murder to rise in rank (Kirk took command of the ISS
Enterprise after assassinating Captain Pike, etc). On the ISS Enterprise,
the captain's woman, Marlena Monroe, shows Kirk the Tantalis Field, which
can destroy a person without being present.
FACTS
Alternate universe.
Spock has a beard in the alternate universe.
Mirror-Kirk assassinated Pike, ___, then assassinated colonists on Vega
9.
The Halokin predict galactic revolt.
Alternate-Sulu makes a play for Uhura.
Kirk falls for the alternate Marlena.
The Mirror-Spock estimates the overthrow of the Empire in 240 years.
Mirror-Spock mind melds with McCoy.
OPINIONS
Pretty good episode, and it let the actors be out of character, which is
always good.
