Resurrection

We just started this one and NO ONE is going to understand this episode off the BAT we discovered.

They all lie to themselves and tell themselves it's not that person because they believe their rational mind is the power, is the beacon pointing towards the truth.

When of course in reality we all know the rational mind can be a mans worst enemy....

Feeling is knowing, as it can be no other way.

second half

:(... he's such a nice guy....imagine me....a spiritual leader paused forever :(....

:(...........

HE APPEARED OUT OF THE AIR LIKE SUPER MAN!!! :D

DS9 receives a visitor from the mirror universe.

I am not a fan of this episode. I wouldn't describe it as badly made, but the placement of it after another romance-focused episode and the tension of the Dominion war arc is questionable and (to me) it adds nothing to Kira's development.

It is character-driven, about someone being coerced into doing something bad and the dilemma of whether they will see the light before it's too late. I think this is a decent premise, but for me, it moves too slowly and some of the dialogue is pretty flat. Philip Anglim makes the best of the material, but for me he cannot make the character engaging. He does not feel like the loveable rogue the other characters are making him out to be and this aspect feels quite forced. His dialogue near the end makes him seem defeatist and like he is being shepherd's crooked off the stage for the reset button to be pressed.

Kira carries the story in my opinion, thanks largely to Nana Visitor once again successfully switching between the two versions of the character. She provides virtually all of the entertainment (along with Worf in the double-date scene), regardless of how irritating it is to see such a cool character caught up in this arc.

For me it is a 5.5/10, but I round upwards.

An identical personage from the alternate universe enters the space station. He looks exactly like Kira's former lover and she develops a new relationship with the duplicate. This is dragged on into the Bajoran religion which intrigues this guy. But it's hard to remove yourself from what you have become. The whole thing was dull and rather pointless.

Kira falls in love. Again... Steamy gossip awaits. It's hard not to sigh when the mirror universe characters cross over are the main story plot... I do enjoy the Kira character cross over but is it needed at this point in the series?

I was raised in a particular church, where it was "stand sit, kneel, lather, rinse repeat."

This isn't really about the Bajoran religion, other than the fact that they are depicted as kneeling in their temple for an elongated amount of time and have Orbs from the Prophets that have different characteristics, I have participated in services similar to what is shown in this episode sans the Orb. This is probably one of the first times that we get to see the actual Bajoran service from inside the temple. So that makes at least that aspect of this episode relatively important, it was something we had never seen before.

The other story, about Bariel Antos, brings a person from the alternate universe into the prime universe, which is a switch from how it usually happens.

At first, we want to believe his story, and his reasons for wanting to stay in the prime 'verse.

Until we hear from Quark- A person who associates with criminals and low lifes, he definitely would recognize one of his own.

And he does. But the problem is, Kira does not want to believe this because of course, it is coming from Quark.

This episode is important in that it shows how a person from the alternate universe who is basically scum can see themselves reflected in the mirror of the prime universe, therefore causing some of that scum and villainy to come off.

My favorite part of this is the dinner with Worf and Dax. This particular Bariel is as good as Rom at being a pickpocket.

Regardless, I enjoyed an episode about the mirror universe, even though they don't really go there. I had originally thought that there were only four basic mirror episodes in deep space nine, this episode makes five. It is a nice Interlude. Unfortunately, it presented opportunities that could have been abused later, but we only got one more mirror episode and Antos was not present.

And we have to remember, it is easier for civilized men to behave like barbarians than it is for barbarians to behave like civilized men. Unless, of course, they are the Intendant, or, Captain Gabriel Lorca- A certain type of deviousness might be usable to fool people in the prime universe. And, of course, we see that happen as well.

But when it comes down to it, my primary motivation for writing this right now is that I thought the Bajoran temple would be an uncomfortable place to kneel for and unspecified (aka long) amount of time.