Thursday, April 17, 2014

Worst of Star Trek DS9---Resurrection

In "Ressurrection," the mirror universe Bariel Antos suddenly appears on DS9 and takes Kira as a hostage in the guise of escaping the Alliance.  As he and Kira make a connection and fall in love, Quark is suspicious of this other Bariel and warns Kira to watch out for him, especially around the orb of Prophesy in the station's temple.

Turns out his suspicions were correct, the evil Kira shows up (how she managed it undetected isn't specified) and she struts and giggles and almost gets a punch across Bariel's face when he admits he's smitten with our universe Kira. Their plan was to steal the orb.


Another mirror universe episode and not any better than the last ones. I found it boring and ridiculous, especially when the mirror Kira showed up.  Since spirituality isn't of any concern on the mirror Bajor, how did the mirror Kira and Bariel know about the orb or even care about it? And when they finally entered the temple to steal it, why not hurry up and grab the orb and get the hell out of there? No such luck. We are treated to the ridiculous strutting of the evil Kira and her charms. The episode's only saving grace was witnessing the internal torment of the mirror Bariel, struggling between his loyality to the evil Kira and his love for the more wonderful Major Kira. He renders evil Kira unconscious with a phaser and leaves with her and without the orb.


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