User Reviews

Once again, characters from Deep Space Nine end up in the alternate universe. Once again, the Grand Nagus needs to be rescued. Once again, the same old plot issues come forward. That incarnation of KIra is so tiresome. Please! No more!

Although most of the mirror universe episode are far from interesting, this one was Allright. Maybe because it involved my favourite characters: Garak and Quark. I always loved the secret torches Quark carried for jadzia and now Ezri, it makes him more human. And Garak has always been my favourite character. I found the interactions between Worf and Garak in the alternate universe the previous time quite hilarious. Here they don't have that many scenes together but they are still brilliant. Worf with his fiery, blunt character like an elephant in a China cupboard and Garak trying to dance around him made me LOL. So all in all not the best episode but quite oké.

I am the biggest Star Trek fan ever. But wow the writing and the entire idea of this episode was just awful. I really struggled to get through it but I did.

Just another stupid alternate universe episode. Easy to skip just like the vic Fontaine episodes

We're getting closer to the end of the series but the last few episodes seem stand alone and not offering much to the overall story.

This is only my second Star Trek series I've watched, Enterprise the first and that ended horrifically, I really hope this picks up and soon.

Quark and Rom go on a rescue mission to the mirror universe.

This could be an entertaining episode if the humour works for you, but I personally struggle with it.

When the premise is "let's do one last Ferengi or Mirror Universe episode" you suspect the writers might be less focussed on plot and more on giving actors the opportunity to have fun with certain versions of their characters. This certainly feels the case with this one.

The use of Nog is relatively good as he is presented as being quite baffled with the mirrorverse as most viewers probably were by this point in Star Trek's running.

There are some enjoyable aspects like seeing the mirror versions of characters like Kira and Ezri who entertain by being so different. I quite like the appearance of Vic Fontaine.

I find others like Garak, Worf and Bashir to be quite irritating. The actors do their best, but have no material to work with and little but their OTT performances to generate laughs. Unfortunately this is combined with Wallace Shawn's Negus, whose voice grates on me even in the good Ferengi stories.

Comedy is in the eye of the beholder so others may enjoy it more if it appeals to their sense of humour.

Episode 12 of the last season and they still show standalone episodes with not attempt to move the story line to conclusion???

And why is it, that we see another alternate universe episode? This topic is done. We have seen all we need to see. Especially since this episode adds nothing to the storyline of the alternate universe. We witness - yet again - terrible acting from evil Kira in her skin-tight black dress. This time accompanied by an even worse acting evil Ezri in similar black dress which absolutely did not work for this character. In no second I believed that this Ezri character is now a meany.

And this Nagus story was dumb as well. Travels to the alternate universe to explore new business oportunities. Only accompanied by his speechless und useless bodyguard.

You have to imagine: The Nagus rules whole Ferenginar. The Ferengi are an advanced race capable of intergalactic travel. To reach such an evolution in technology lots of inventions have to be done prior to that, meaning: This civilization muss be old. Compared to earth it would be safe to say, that such a highly developed civilization must have 10-20 billion individuums - maybe even scattered over several planets. And here we have the Nagus, that is their leader. Yet, you do not see any other people around him but his one bodyguard. No assistants, no counselors, no politicians, no company leaders, no military... just no one. As if a person alone would be making deals that would impact billions of people. The Nagus would be accompanied by an entourage bigger than the one of the US president. And he only is the leader of around 340 million people, not a whole race and planet like the Nagus!