I must publicly confess my sin and make proper atonement.

For the past two days I have sought out and deliberately watched two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. I do not have the excuse that these episodes, a two parter, were written by a friends as I did when I watch episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, and as such this is a sin against taste.

I watched the Season 3 episodes, Through A Mirror, Darkly parts 1 & 2 via the Netflix instant view.  This story arc takes place entirely in the producers views of the Mirror Mirror universe first seen in the original series episode of the same name. ( a truly great Episode.) Howevere the producers did not pay attention to that episode and were wildly off the mark on how that universe worked. In Mirror Mirror counter-Spock warns Counter-Sulu that should he, Spock, go missing, his asscoicates would come looking for revenge. Counter-Sulu blanches when counter-Spock that some of his associates are Vulcans. In that one moment we get so much about what has changed. The Vulcan are bad asses, more like Romulans than the pacifists we know. In this Enterprise story the Vulcan are enslaved to the humans, but basicly the same. In fact they are leading a revolt against the empire instead of being a terror within it.

There are numerous other faults in these two episodes. Production design managed to copy known sets from the original series, (The Starship Defiant, lost in the episode The Tholian Web, has appeared in the Mirror Mirror universe, bring the empire tech from about a hundred years down the road.) However they try to create sets that are meant to be aboard Defiant but are not copies of original sets, and the design fails. These new sets do not look like the belong on the same ship. There is also a CGI Gorn in the second part. they smartly kept the effect mainly to the shadows, but it did not look like a Gorn. The body looked pretty good, but the head was entirely different. Also they portrayed the Gorn as quick and nimble, guess the original wasn’t good enough for them.

During the second episode counter-Archer (the lead and Captain in the series) is repeatedly advised and taunted my visions of regular Archer. I kept waiting for the explanation for what this was. It never came. None at all. Nothing that happened in the story impacted on the regular universe and the whole story arc was pointless.

A waste of time. How shall I atone?