Shattered Mirror

The Siskos have an adventure in the mirror universe.

This is a fairly enjoyable episode with some humorous performances and decent spectacle. The key is not to take it seriously.

For me this is all about the over the top mirror universe characterisations and how funny you find seeing actors like Nana Visitor, Michael Dorn, Alexander Siddig, and Andrew Robinson chewing scenery. Personally I think Vistor, Dorn and Robinson have the most entertaining scenes.

There are some enjoyable action sequences that involve exciting space battles created by CGI and those always great shaky camera shots in the studio.

It ends with a quite poignant moment that is well made but feels quite out of sync with the tone of the episode.

6.5/10 for me but I round upwards.

Another mirror universe episode. The only thing that stands out here is the enjoyable spacebattle and the hilarious interaction between Worf and Garak. The rest is standard. Also I love Dax's hairstyle in the mirror universe.

Honestly if these mirror universes are being taken seriously (epecially this one), they would have only earned a 4 by me. So I'm taking the chance it was all a joke.

Ds9 is a fantasy universe. It dont exist and all characters and events are made up. So why, after spending all that time and energy creating that universe, do the script writers then find it so limiting that time and time again, they rip it all up and opt for the lazy parallel universe chestnut where they can flip the personalities of all their made up characters? What's the point?

These mirror episodes are OK but I find them too hard to fathom. Now, characters can exist in both sides of the mirror. This is pretty typical. The people on one side are pretty much evil. How they get along is beyond me. I don't have much to say other than Jake Sisko is really tiresome and from the conclusion, I would imagine we have to deal with them again, sucking the imagination out of the writers.