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94			     MIRROR, MIRROR
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WRITER: Jerome Bixby

GUESTS: Barbara Luna (Marlena Monroe)
	Vic Perrin

AIRED:  October 6, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .850
Usenet rating:   .824

QUOTES:
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 - "I'm  a  doctor, not  an  engineer." --McCoy   "Now you're an engineer."
   --Scotty
 - "You want credits, Spock? I'll make you a rich man." --Mirror-Kirk
 - "I've never  seen perfection,  but no  woman could  come closer  to it."
   --Kirk
 - "Regrettable that this society has chosen suicide." --Mirror-Spock
 - "I'll have you all executed!" --???  "I think not." --???
 - "Jim, [let me stay]." --Scotty (the only time he called Kirk "Jim")


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PLOT:
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Due to  a  transporter  malfunction,  Kirk,  McCoy,  Scotty,  and Uhura are
accidentally exchanged  with  their  counterparts  in  a parallel universe,
where the Federation is a  violent, dictatorial  Empire.   In the alternate
universe, the crew murder to  rise in  rank (Kirk  took command  of the ISS
Enterprise after assassinating Captain Pike, etc).  On  the ISS Enterprise,
the captain's woman, Marlena Monroe, shows  Kirk the  Tantalis Field, which
can destroy a person without being present.

FACTS:
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 - Alternate universe.
 - Spock has a beard in the alternate universe.
 - Mirror-Kirk assassinated Pike, ___,  then assassinated colonists on Vega
   9.
 - The Halokin predict galactic revolt.
 - Alternate-Sulu makes a play for Uhura.
 - Kirk falls for the alternate Marlena.
 - The Mirror-Spock estimates the overthrow of the Empire in 240 years.
 - Mirror-Spock mind melds with McCoy.

OPINIONS:
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Pretty good episode, and it let the  actors be  out of  character, which is
always good.