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How did the mirror humans, who in all respects seem to perfectly mirror the technological achievements of regular humans, ever manage to conquer mirror Vulcan, though, I wonder? Or was this covered in part one?
Well, I guess the answer now is "with weapons from the future," but what about the first time?
(Also, Bakula kind of ((kind of? how about super to the max)) overdid it in a few places, but I liked the parts where he played up his sense of inferiority when confronted with his alternate's accomplishments. I was expecting a scene revealing that he had always wanted T'Pol too, though.)
I have some other thoughts on the existential horror of living in the mirror universe, but maybe a non-technical thread would be a better home for them.
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quote: Did anybody notice that the gorn had reptilian eyes instead of the silver bug eyes from TOS"Arena"? Does this mean that those silver eyes where some sort of contact lenses or other protective eyewear.
Naah. The nasty Gorn pirate captain just showed how nasty he was by wearing patches over BOTH eyes.
Or perhaps he made a bet with the Metron? "A weak Earthling? Bah! I could beat him blindfolded!"
Seriously, forks, it would put an interesting twist to "Arena" if we learned that Kirk in essence beat up a blind cripple. Which is what "IaMD" very much makes it look like.
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I would suggest that the TOS Gorn's eyes were buggy for the same reason that TOS Andorians' antennae didn't move.
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I'm still wondering if She-Ho actually loved Captain Forrest or not.
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So we never saw Mirri T'Pol's fate, right? Probably became subject to the empress' whims. . .
Also, the array that Phlox dismantled to disable the Defiant - was that a re-use of the same components Archer fiddled with to destroy the Xindi sphere? All ythose glowing red tubes, removed in pairs this time but singly last time. . .
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Well, the TOS Gorn looked big and buff compared to this one. Maybe this was the wiry, dorky Gorn wearing horn-rimmed glasses that had the advantage of being small and quick.
Or maybe in this universe the Gorn were Augments.
In any case, since we haven't seen a Gorn in the normal universe, we don't really need an explanation of the difference beyond it being the Mirror Universe, where Crazy Things Happen(tm).
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Northern Gorns and Southern Gorns. And if there had been a Season 5, a six-episode arc would've been made to explain in excruciating detail why they look different.
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Personally, I liked seeing how much more powerful the Constitution class is over the NX and the large Vulcan ship. Proof of progress, there. (And I think we saw it destroy an Andorian ship, but I can't remember.)
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Actually, the torpedoes seemed quite weak, at least until the final shots on Avenger. Still, the total number of torpedoes fired in this episode was quite absurd, with limited impact.
It was the phasers that were smacking fools around in a hardcore manner.
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I guess the torps were set at a low yeild... I wonder who ordered that.
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quote:Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: So, er, I don't remember those power thingies (the red bars Phlox was sabotaging) from TOS, yet they looked like they belonged. My memory for things not involving TMBG lyrics is bad, though. Have we seen those before?
They weren't from TOS, and I'm a bit skeptical of all the power to the ship's primary systems running through this single, open-to-interruption junction. Not very smart. But I guess it *is* the sort of plot device that would be used on TOS. I also loved how the "duotronic module" referred to the SCREEN covering the relays!
quote:Originally posted by Lee: So we never saw Mirri T'Pol's fate, right? Probably became subject to the empress' whims. . .
Also, the array that Phlox dismantled to disable the Defiant - was that a re-use of the same components Archer fiddled with to destroy the Xindi sphere? All ythose glowing red tubes, removed in pairs this time but singly last time. . .
Could be...but what did you think of my thread title?
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Perhaps the difference in the Gorn's eyes could be explained away by the fact that in Arena the Goern was outside in the bright sun, where as on Enterprisehe was in dark passgeways and conduits. Perhaps they work like the Vulcan's inner eyelid?
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