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Musings of a Middle-Aged Geek

… observations from a lifetime of geekiness.

Star Trek: The Original Series; examining “Metamorphosis,” 55 years later…

*****55-YEAR OLD STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!*****

The Star Trek Original Series (TOS) episode “Metamorphosis” was first broadcast via the NBC network on November 10th, 1967. This was a heady time for the sophomore series, with creator Gene Roddenberry producing, along with some terrific writing talent attached to the show, including script editor Dorothy Fontana (1939-2019), and prolific writer/producer Gene L. Coon (1924-1973). Coon contributed many ideas to the series, including the Klingons ( “Errand of Mercy” ), and Eugenics Wars superman, Khan Noonien Singh . The writer/producer would later leave Star Trek near the end of its second season, but his invaluable contributions to the franchise’s lore remain to this day ( Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek Discovery etc ).

star trek enterprise zefram cochrane episode

In “Metamorphosis,” Coon created the famed inventor of warp drive, Zefram Cochrane , as well as the universal translator. Cochrane would go on to become a pivotal character in Star Trek’s ‘ future history ‘, while the ‘universal translator’ allowed great creative freedom whenever characters spoke with alien beings living on “ strange new worlds.” The device’s existence was implicit, but never depicted onscreen until this episode. Coon’s other contributions included formal names for the United Federation of Planets, Starfleet Command and the Prime Directive; all of which either went unnamed, or were given other monikers ( “United Earth Space Probe Agency” ), until Coon ironed it all out. Gene Roddenberry may have imagined the concept of Star Trek, but Gene L. Coon is the guy who filled in many of the details which made it come alive.

While “Metamorphosis” may not make a lot of Star Trek fans’ Top-10 lists, I had a chance to rewatch it recently, and I realized that beyond its contributions to Star Trek lore, it is also a quietly pioneering story of interspecies love ( the episode was broadcast in late 1967, following the “Summer of Love” ). It deserved a closer look…

Beautifully directed by series’ semi-regular director Ralph Senensky, the episode begins with Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) transporting Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford (Elinor Donahue) via shuttlecraft to the starship Enterprise to cure her extremely rare and potentially fatal “Sakuro’s disease.” Afterward, Hedford is to negotiate a critical peace agreement on the warring planet of Epsilon Canaris 3.

Note: This is the second shuttlecraft named Galileo (which were named after pioneering 16th century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei) attached to the starship Enterprise; the first was destroyed in the first season’s “The Galileo Seven” (1966). Another version of the Galileo shuttle would return for a crash landing after being hijacked during a mission to Nimbus III in “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” (1989).

Things go awry when the shuttle is ensnared by a glowing energy cloud, and compelled to land on a small planetoid in a remote region of space. The shuttle’s main drive and communication systems are rendered useless, leaving the party of four stranded. They then meet another marooned inhabitant named “Cochrane” (Glenn Corbett), a talkative yet enigmatic man, who invites them to stay at the cozy little dwelling he’s made from his cannibalized spaceship. Despite personal reservations, Kirk accepts the stranger’s offer…

Note: Glenn Corbett plays Cochrane as an athletic, handsome, 20th century-whitebread vision of an astronaut. He looks like he’d be slated to fly an Apollo capsule to the moon instead of inventing a fantastic propulsion system in the mid-21st century.

Arriving at Cochrane’s surprisingly well-appointed shelter, Hedford’s condition begins to quickly deteriorate. Outside the entranceway, Spock and the others see the same energy cloud that delivered them to the planetoid. Kirk knows that Cochrane is lying when he denies its presence. Forcibly confronted by the angry captain, Cochrane comes clean; the creature is “the Companion,” and it brought the shuttle to his world to keep him company, after Cochrane related that he might die of loneliness.

Note: The Companion is part of a long legacy of TOS Star Trek energy beings, which include the omnipotent Organians (“Errand of Mercy”), the malevolent Redjac (“Wolf in the Fold”), the ravenous vampire cloud creature (“Obsession”), and the disembodied Zetarians (“Lights of Zetar”).

When pressed further, Cochrane admits he is Zefram Cochrane, the man who invented warp drive in 2063, and who was lost in space 150 years ago at age 87 ( presumed dead ). The Companion brought him to the planetoid, where it restored him to a healthy, youthful state. The Companion also prevents Cochrane from aging or dying. Cochrane and the creature have also formed a symbiotic, telepathic relationship with each other over the decades. Unwilling to stay as one of Cochrane’s playmates, Kirk tells Cochrane about the magnificent 23rd century his invention helped usher in, and a lonely Cochrane decides to help Kirk and the others do whatever is necessary for all of them to leave together .

Note: One nagging question I had during this most recent rewatch: Cochrane and Spock state that the Companion does “not have the power to create life” (which the Companion confirms), yet she creates vegetables and other foodstuffs for Cochrane using “the native elements.” That means that the Companion can indeed ‘create life.’ The ability to turn inorganic material into vegetables is a shorthanded version of abiogenesis, but it would definitely qualify as creating life. I doubt an 87-year old dying Cochrane would bring bags of seed for growing crops during his one-way flight…

Shortly after his own near-deadly encounter with the creature, Spock devises a counter-electrical generator that will ‘short-out’ the Companion. Cochrane is understandably conflicted about betraying the very entity which has taken care of him for 150 years. Reluctantly, he telepathically summons the Companion. At Kirk’s command, Spock throws the switch, and an enraged Companion nearly kills them both —called off at the last moment by Cochrane.

Note: Spock’s first close encounter with the Companion when he is attempting to repair the shuttlecraft is a very interesting moment; one curious being observing another. It’s when Spock touches the energy cloud (in an attempt to better understand its nature) that it electrocutes him. As with humanoids, touching has to be consensual, as the Companion refrains from electrocuting Cochrane during their various pairings.

Meanwhile, the Enterprise, commanded by Mr. Scott (James Doohan) is backtracking the overdue shuttlecraft when it follows their impulse exhaust trail into an asteroid belt. With thousands of asteroids ahead, Scotty orders Sulu (George Takei) to begin scanning all of them for life forms. Uhura reminds the engineer that the chances of locating four people among those thousands of asteroids are slim, but Scotty takes the odds…

Note: Nice to see Scotty, Sulu and Uhura running the ship in Kirk’s absence, affording some nice bits of business for these characters. Scotty has a genuine knack for starship command (as seen in “A Taste of Armageddon,” “Friday’s Child,” and “Bread and Circuses”), despite his utter lack of desire for the job.

As Hedford’s fever grows, McCoy reminds Kirk that he was also trained in diplomacy . On Kirk’s order, Spock adjusts the shuttle’s universal translator to communicate directly with the Companion. To their surprise, the Companion responds with a distinctly feminine voice (Elizabeth Rogers). Kirk then realizes that the Companion is keeping Cochrane there for a simple reason; she loves him. Kirk attempts to convince the Companion that her feeling for Cochrane is harmful to him. Sensing Kirk is trying to deceive her, their communication ends . After learning of the Companion’s amorous feelings for him, Cochrane recoils in surprising disgust at the idea of being intimate with an “inhuman monster.”

Note: Cochrane’s “totally parochial attitude” towards the Companion’s love is genuinely surprising to the enlightened ears of the 23rd century Starfleet officers, just as morality from a 19th century man might seem shocking to the ears of 21st century people. The most encouraging words come from Dr. McCoy, who tells Cochrane that the Companion “is just another life-form, that’s all. You get used to those things.” This is especially ironic, since Dr. McCoy is forever teasing Spock about his pointed ears and green blood. We know that McCoy’s racist-ribbing of Spock is largely an act, as the late actor DeForest Kelley’s innate warmth and humanity always outshined his character’s outward crustiness.

Later, Kirk attempts another emotional plea with the Companion, telling her that she is too physically different to ever fully join with “the man” ( as she calls him ) in a loving union. The Companion remorsefully takes Kirk’s point, and disappears. Just as Kirk and Spock are ready to abandon their futile negotiations, a surprisingly healthy Commissioner Hedford suddenly emerges from the shelter, and speaks with an echoing voice— Nancy Hedford and the Companion have merged into one being. While this union has saved the dying Hedford’s life, it also means this newly merged-being is unable to leave the planetoid for more than “a tiny march of days” since her very life-force emanates from it.

Note: That the Companion is only able to leave the planetoid for short periods of time means that she risked her life in the opening act by going into space to hijack the shuttle and its occupants for Cochrane. Shortly after landing on the planetoid, Spock says that it appears to be a “remnant of a planetary breakup.” Perhaps most of the Companion’s fellow energy-beings were killed in that traumatic past event. Maybe, like the Horta in Gene Coon’s “Devil in the Dark,” the Companion is also the last of her race…?

Now that Cochrane can see his Companion in corporeal form, he realizes he feels the same for her as well, and he decides to stay on the planetoid with Companion-Hedford, where he predicts the two of them will happily “grow old together.” With the Enterprise arriving in orbit, and with the shuttlecraft’s systems restored, Kirk makes one final offer to take Cochrane back with him. Cochrane declines . Kirk wishes Cochrane and Companion-Hedford “all the best.” Before Kirk departs with the others, Cochrane asks him one final favor: “Don’t tell them about me.” Kirk promises, “Not a word, Mr. Cochrane.”

Note: I wonder what Kirk put in his log books for those missing days, and what lies did he give regarding the fate of Commissioner Hedford? The non-canonical 1994 Star Trek novel, “Federation,” saw the Enterprise return to the planetoid, where Kirk had to face the music with a tyrannical Admiral Carla Clobregnny regarding his falsified logs. The book also offers a very different story for Cochrane’s first warp flight, which was nullified two years later with the 1996 feature film “Star Trek: First Contact.” Written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, “Federation” is a fascinating read, all the same.

As they prepare to leave, McCoy reminds the captain about “that war on Epsilon Canaris 3” , to which a nonchalant Kirk quips that he’s sure the Federation will find a woman, somewhere who’ll stop that war…

Note: Kirk’s blasé attitude regarding the threat of war on Epsilon Canaris 3 is one of the few weak spots in this otherwise terrific episode. The imminent war and the onset of Hedford’s illness were dual ticking clocks driving the story. With the latter problem solved, Kirk’s hope for “another woman, somewhere, who’ll stop the war” makes for a funny line, but a weak resolution. Maybe the wisened Companion-Hedford could’ve offered a few departing words of wisdom for Kirk that might’ve helped at the negotiating table? At least the problem wouldn’t have been ignored.

Why “Metamorphosis” is so important to Star Trek.

Beyond its significant contributions to Star Trek lore and future history, “Metamorphosis” sports amazing production values, with exceptional work done to the indoor planet sets to make them seem more ‘alive’ than usual, including gorgeous lighting and physical ( not optical ) cloud effects. The episode also makes a quiet, though not unnoticed appeal for interspecies love and acceptance ( a case arguably made by the very existence of Mr. Spock , who is the product of a Vulcan-human pairing ).

Among writer Gene L. Coon’s many contributions to Star Trek lore was the concept of a “universal translator”, something alluded to, but never mentioned by name, let alone seen onscreen until “Metamorphosis.” Spock retrieves the device from the shuttle, and it’s about the size of a typical 1960s flashlight ( which is the clear basis for the physical prop ). Later Star Treks would suggest more advanced translators built directly into the crew’s communicators, or even implanted into a being’s ears ( Deep Space Nine’s “Little Green Men” ). The universal translator is also one of those many cases where a fictional Star Trek device is eventually realized in our own world. Today, Google Translate or Apple’s Translate App allow people of different languages to have near realtime conversations, either by translating text messages or live speech. I’ve personally found Apple’s Translate App to be extremely useful at times; so has my teacher wife.

Glenn Corbett’s Gemini-Apollo era version of Zefram Cochrane is far different from the skirt-chasing, greedy alcoholic we later meet in 1996’s “Star Trek: First Contact,” where he’s played by actor James Cromwell ( “Babe” ). Cromwell looks absolutely nothing like Corbett, nor is any explanation offered for the disparity in appearance. Cromwell’s Cochrane also appears somewhat older than the character should’ve been in the year 2063 . According to the fan site Memory Alpha, Cochrane should be about 33 in the film, though he looks more like he’s in his mid-to-late 50s. Writers Ron Moore and Brannon Braga have suggested that the movie’s Cochrane was a thinly-veiled metaphor for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, whose own womanizing and substance abuse issues have been well-documented, but are often overlooked when discussing his legacy as the “Great Bird of the Galaxy.” Cromwell would later cameo as a much older Zefram Cochrane in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, “Broken Bow”, which premiered in 2001.

While “Metamorphosis” is shot entirely on indoor soundstages, director Ralph Senensky worked well with available resources to give the final episode a luxe and vibrant look. Using miniature rock formations held in front of a camera to create forced perspective, the Galileo shuttlecraft and its party are made to appear far off in the distance. This is a nice touch that makes the indoor soundstage seem far larger than it was, giving the episode unusual scope. The sets are also flooded with rich purple and fuchsia lighting schemes that give the alien landscapes deeply exaggerated sunset hues; fittingly romantic , for what may be one of Star Trek’s greatest love stories.

One of the most ingenious, sensitive and unscripted moments in TOS Star Trek occurs near the end of “Metamorphosis,” when Cochrane, eager to see the universe again, promises to take Companion-Hedford with him into this brave new world. As Cochrane speaks, we see him from Companion-Hedford’s perspective, as she holds her multicolored headscarf over her human eyes, making Cochrane appear as he might’ve looked through the prism of the Companion’s vision. The episode is also given a lush, romantic score of near feature film quality by occasional series’ composer George Duning (1908-2000). Duning would compose music for eight episodes between Star Trek’s second and third seasons. In addition to “Metamorphosis,” some of Duning’s finest work for the series can be heard in his scores for “Return to Tomorrow,” “Patterns of Force,” and “The Empath.”

Finally and most importantly, “Metamorphosis” makes an earnest plea for love and acceptance among different species, with a bigoted Zefram Cochrane showing reluctance to openly accept the love given to him by the incongruently alien Companion. The ending cops out a bit by having the Companion merge with the dying Nancy Hedford in order to present Cochrane with a more corporeal alternative with whom he can wrap his arms around. While the story’s heart was certainly in the right place, this was 1967; and ending the story with Cochrane romancing an energy cloud might’ve been a bit difficult for audiences in those days ( or even today ) to accept. Nevertheless, this episode might also be seen as a quietly metaphorical plea for pansexual acceptance. It’s fair to say that until the 2017 premiere of “Star Trek: Discovery,” the franchise has long struggled with open depictions of non-cisgender, non-heterosexual relationships; often using innuendo, ‘alien influences,’ or cloaking them in heavy metaphor.

Summing It Up.

The triumvirate of Kirk, Spock and McCoy are all well served in “Metamorphosis”; Dr. McCoy tends to the dying Nancy Hedford, Mr. Spock continually devises new means of dealing with the Companion, and diplomat Kirk does his very best to plea for their release by making a case for human love. It’s all so classically Star Trek, that it’s since become cliche. The episode is also boosted by a surprisingly strong performance by comedic actress Elinor Donahue ( “Father Knows Best” ) as Commissioner Nancy Hedford; her dying confession to McCoy about not being loved is heartbreaking, and powerfully delivered.

“Metamorphosis” doesn’t rely on two-fisted action, or black-hat villainy; instead, the story focuses on an elegant, interspecies love story right out of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” With better-than-average production values, sensitive direction by Ralph Senensky, a melodic score by George Duning, and a still-timely (if somewhat muddled ) message of acceptance, this is a compelling and romantic tale that adds significantly to future Star Trek lore.

Gene L. Coon’s “Metamorphosis” is classic Star Trek at its very finest .

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Zefram Cochrane

Zefram Cochrane was born on Earth [1] in 2032 [2] [3] and lived through the chaos of World War III [1] before inventing the warp drive engine [2] and building humanity 's first warp-capable vessel, the Phoenix. [1]

On 5 April 2063 , Cochrane piloted the Phoenix past the speed of light . This caught the attention of a passing Vulcan science vessel, [1] the T'Plana-Hath , commanded by Solkar . [4] The ensuing decades saw the commissioning of numerous warp-capable ships and probes, including Friendship I , [5] the S.S. Valiant [6] and the S.S. Conestoga . [7] The engines of the J class and Y class freighters constructed for the fledgling Earth Cargo Service were designed by Cochrane himself, and legend had it that he signed the inside of the reactor casing of each ship's engine. [8]

Cochrane ultimately retired to Alpha Centauri , [2] but he did make return visits to Earth, where he met Henry Archer , and together, Archer and Cochrane broke ground on the Warp Five Complex in 2119 . [3]

A restored Zefram Cochrane ( TOS 31 )

After the Warp Five Complex was dedicated, [3] Cochrane took a small warp ship and left Earth. [2] Cochrane's disappearance would become one of the greatest mysteries of the century, leading to several false starts where people believed that they had found Cochrane's long-lost vessel. [9] The mystery would not be solved, however, until nearly 150 years later, when the Shuttlecraft Galileo II NCC-1701/7 , piloted by Captain James T. Kirk , Commander Spock , and Doctor Leonard McCoy of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 , were pulled off course to Gamma Canaris N by a being known as the Companion on Stardate 3219.4 . The Companion was a noncorporeal entity that had rescued Cochrane, and restored him to youth and health, which it had maintained for him ever since. [2]

Accompanying the Enterprise crew was Assistant Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford , who was dying from the rare Sakuro's Disease . Hedford agreed to merge with the Companion, which cured her illness and gave the entity physical form, so that it could finally share its love for Cochrane, who was unable to reciprocate its affection in its noncorporeal state. The two expected to live out the remainder of their normal, human lifespans together, as Hedford/Companion would no longer be able to restore the couple's youth in their combined state. Kirk agreed to keep their existence secret, and officially reported that Hedford had died on the shuttle, with no mention of Cochrane. [2]

Notes and References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Berman, Rick (Producer). Star Trek: First Contact . Directed by Jonathan Frakes . Story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Ronald D. Moore . Screenplay by Brannon Braga & Ronald D. Moore . Paramount Pictures . 22 November 1996 .
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Roddenberry, Gene ( Executive Producer ). "Metamorphosis." Star Trek , Season 2, Episode 2. Directed by Ralph Senensky . Written by Gene L. Coon . Desilu Productions , 10 November 1967.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Berman, Rick & Brannon Braga (Executive Producers). "Broken Bow" . Enterprise , season 1, episode 1-2 (Production number 01-02). Directed by James Conway . Written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga . Paramount Pictures . 26 September 2001 .
↑ " Homestead ." Star Trek: Voyager , Season 7, Episode 23. Paramount Pictures Corporation , 2001.
↑ " Frienship One ." Star Trek: Voyager , Season 7, Episode 21. Paramount Pictures Corporation , 2001.
↑ Roddenberry, Gene (Executive Producer). "The Cage" . Star Trek , season 0, episode 0 (Production number 01). Directed by Robert Butler . Written by Gene Roddenberry . Released 1986 . Desilu Productions . 1965 .
↑ Berman, Rick & Brannon Braga (Executive Producers). "Terra Nova" . Enterprise , season 1, episode 6 (Production number 06). Directed by LeVar Burton . Story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga . Teleplay by Antoinette Stella . Paramount Pictures . 24 October 2001 .
↑ Berman, Rick & Brannon Braga (Executive Producers). "Fortunate Son" . Enterprise , season 1, episode 10 (Production number 10). Directed by LeVar Burton . Written by James Duff . Paramount Pictures . 21 November 2001 .
↑ " Future Tense ." Enterprise , Season 2, Episode 16. Paramount Pictures Corporation , 19 February 2003.
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Summary [ ]

A shuttlepod carries the senior officers from Enterprise home

Carrying the senior officers of the Enterprise NX-01 , a shuttlepod swoops down from orbit to the Bay Stadium , overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge . A ceremony celebrating Enterprise 's success in the Delphic Expanse pays tribute to the heroic crew , although Captain Jonathan Archer says in a speech that it's important to remember the heroes who didn't make it back, the 27 crewmates who died on the mission without whom none of them would have made it home alive. A crowd of thousands gratefully applauds their efforts which saved Earth from the Xindi weapon .

Act One [ ]

Archer, dressed in civilian clothes, walks into a bar and meets up with Hernandez . She is not only Archer's former love interest, she is also a Starfleet captain, preparing to command the upcoming Columbia NX-02 . The two discuss the upcoming debriefing and how the people of Earth have been waiting at knife-point for the last year, not knowing if the Xindi would return and succeed in destroying the planet.

On Enterprise , which is undergoing an extensive repair and refit, Commander Trip Tucker enters T'Pol 's quarters and mulls his options for shore leave – with his hometown in Florida destroyed, he has nowhere to go. T'Pol invites him to join her on a trip to Vulcan , which she hasn't visited in many years; Tucker accepts, leaving to pack his bags.

Archer visits Hernandez aboard Columbia , still being prepared for its maiden voyage. He recommends she make several changes to the ship before leaving, based on his starship experience. Archer notes the ship's new weapons upgrades, recalling how he once naively opposed weapons on Enterprise to the designer of the NX-class , Captain Jefferies , as they might deter from any first contact missions.

As Archer is debriefed by Starfleet Command and the Vulcan High Command , the topic drifts to the trellium -infected Vulcan ship Seleya encountered by Enterprise in the Expanse. When Ambassador Soval insinuates that Archer destroyed the vessel without doing enough to help the delusional crew, Archer becomes outraged, blaming the High Command for not providing enough assistance in their mission, saying that he received more help from the Andorians than from the Vulcans. Admiral Forrest later chews Archer out for his behavior, and the captain refuses to apologize. Forrest suspends the debriefing and forcefully orders Archer to take some time off to clear his mind.

Back on Enterprise , Doctor Phlox , toting a large array of travel bags for his vacation on Earth, is warned by Lieutenant Malcolm Reed about the heightened level of xenophobia on Earth in the aftermath of the Xindi attack; Phlox dismisses the warnings and continues to the surface.

In a beautiful wilderness retreat, as Archer prepares to go rock climbing, Captain Hernandez suddenly appears, offering to join him, to Archer's chagrin.

Act Two [ ]

Charles Tucker III introducing himself to T'Les

" I'm Charles Tucker. Pleased to meet you, ma'am. "

Arriving on Vulcan, T'Pol leads Tucker into the house where she grew up. Her mother T'Les greets them, surprised to see that T'Pol has brought a guest – a Human guest, moreover. She informs T'Pol that she has "retired" from her teaching position at the Science Academy . She also shows T'Pol a letter from Koss , T'Pol's fiancée since childhood; however, much to her mother's chagrin, T'Pol expresses no interest in seeing Koss.

High up in the hills, Archer and Hernandez discuss his new hero status, Starfleet politics, personnel issues, and encounters made by Enterprise in the past three years. Herself eager to explore the galaxy , Hernandez finds Archer a significantly changed man, not as "gung ho" about space exploration as he once was.

Early the next morning, T'Pol awakens Tucker at four o'clock so that they, as guests in the household, can prepare the morning meal (another Vulcan tradition). While eating, T'Les is unhappy with many of the changes she notices in her daughter, such as T'Pol's unwillingness to marry Koss as well as her plans to join Starfleet.

Reed is brawling with a xenophobe

In a bar on Earth, crewmates Reed, Ensign Travis Mayweather and Phlox enjoy their new-found celebrity, until they are confronted by a nasty bar patron exhibiting the very xenophobia they had heard of. When the man strongly urges Phlox to leave the establishment, Reed and Mayweather come to their friend's defense; a brawl ensues. About to be attacked himself, Phlox expands his face to three times its normal size, an instinctive defensive posture (much like a puffer fish in Earth's seas), scaring away the troublemakers. Afterward, the unsettled Phlox munches on a pretzel to calm his nerves.

Act Three [ ]

T'Les confronts Tucker about being in love with her daughter, a point he reluctantly concedes. As he adjusts a field generator to fix T'Les' stasis unit , Tucker answers a knock on the front door; it is Koss, asking to speak to T'Pol. When alone with T'Pol, Koss expresses his interest in going forward with the marriage, for traditional reasons more than anything else. T'Pol tries desperately to dissuade him, hinting at her "sickness" (either Pa'nar Syndrome or trellium poisoning), even suggesting the kal-if-fee , a fight to the death – to no avail. Koss tells T'Pol that if she goes forward with their marriage, he will have T'Les reinstated at the Science Academy, hinting that her retirement wasn't voluntary.

When T'Pol asks her mother about the circumstances of her retirement, T'Les reveals that she retired to halt an inquiry into her alleged criminal behavior; the trumped up charges were retribution for T'Pol's actions which partially led to P'Jem 's destruction . Since T'Pol was aboard Enterprise and untouchable, the Vulcan High Command punished her mother instead.

Back in the mountains, Archer has a frightening dream, in which he is attacked on the mountainside by Xindi-Reptilians and is thrown off the mountain by them. Awakening with a start, he admits his guilt over some of his actions while in the Expanse and feels like he lost something, no longer feeling like the explorer he was three years ago when Enterprise first launched. Hernandez offers to help, kissing Archer, and rekindling their romance.

Act Four [ ]

T'Pol gives Tucker a tour of a Vulcan lava field, which resembles Earth's Grand Canyon , yet with giant statues ringing the valley. Tucker offers to show her sights of Earth to return the favor. Afterwards, she tells him of her plans to go forward with the marriage to Koss in order to restore her mother's position; Tucker angrily storms off.

Back on Enterprise , Phlox informs Hoshi Sato that the Xindi neural parasites that Dolim injected her with are almost completely gone from her brain. To celebrate, she invites him to Madame Chang's for their famous egg drop soup , but he pretends to be too busy caring for an ailing osmotic eel . Having spoken to Mayweather about the bar fight, she knows the true cause of his reluctance to return to the planet's surface. She urges him to stand up to the prejudice; when he sadly declines to join her, she promises to bring him take-out.

Once Archer and Hernandez return from their climbing trip, Archer continues the debriefing at Starfleet Headquarters. After it is concluded, he apologizes to Soval for his prior outburst. Soval, who opposed Archer's appointment to Enterprise , now acknowledges that he himself was in error; while some of the captain's actions were morally questionable, he says, they were necessary to save Earth, as well as Vulcan. Remarkably out of character (for a Vulcan), Soval thanks Archer, shaking his hand in friendship.

T'Pol and Koss' wedding ceremony

Tucker has donned T'Pol's father's Vulcan attire for the wedding ceremony. At the last minute, T'Les urges Tucker to divulge his true feelings to her daughter; Tucker declines, reasoning that T'Pol already has enough pressure on her as it is. Stunned at his selflessness (which reveals the depth of his love), T'Les walks away, wondering herself if T'Pol is really doing the right thing or not. Arriving at the ceremony, Tucker compliments T'Pol on her beautiful purple wedding gown; kissing him delicately on the cheek, she proceeds to the ceremony, as Tucker stands near, quietly and regretfully watching the wedding.

Memorable quotes [ ]

" I've been told that people are calling us heroes. When it comes to my crew, you won't get any argument from me. But I think it's important that we remember the heroes who aren't with us – the twenty-seven crewmen who didn't make it back. Without their sacrifice, I wouldn't be standing here right now. None of us would. But I'm sure I speak on behalf of my entire crew when I say… it's good to be home. "

" I had an argument once with Captain Jefferies. He was one of the designers of the NX-class. " " I'm aware of that. " " I told him I didn't want to be in command of a warship trying to make first contact with new species. Jefferies was right. We needed those weapons… and a hell of a lot more. "

" You did everything you could to sabotage our mission. I got more help from the Andorians than I ever got from the High Command. This planet would be a cloud of dust right now if we'd listened to you! "

" There's more to life than one's profession. Perhaps you'll learn that one day. "

" Things have changed since Enterprise left spacedock. You'll spend a lot of your time boldly going into battle. "

" If we weren't out there stirring up trouble, seven million people might still be alive. " " You weren't stirring up trouble. You were exploring. " " I'm not sure there's much of a difference. " " What do you suggest? Put our starships in mothballs? " " No, we need them. But look at the Vulcans. They're not explorers. They keep their ships close to home. Never know who's going to come calling. " " That's not the mission either one of us signed up for. " " Maybe you'll feel differently after you've delivered a few dozen eulogies. "

" Are you all right? " " I'm not even sure what 'all right' means anymore. "

" I look at you and I see the person I was three years ago – the explorer that my father wanted me to be. I lost something out there. I don't know how to get it back. "

" I'm sorry. " " You're sorry? You brought me sixteen light years just to watch you get married to someone you barely know. "

" Ambassador… I want to apologize for what I said to you the other day. I was out of line. " " Yes, you were. " " I'm glad we can finally agree on something. "

" Captain… your actions, while being morally questionable, were necessary. I opposed your appointment as captain of Enterprise , but it's obvious now that I was wrong. T'Pol has told me that the Expanse would have someday encompassed hundreds of systems, including Vulcan. You've done a great service for both our worlds. Thank you. "

" What ye are about to witness comes down from the time of the beginning without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way. "

Background information [ ]

Episode writer Mike Sussman on a set from this episode

The post-production version of this episode's final draft script was submitted for archive on 5 October 2004 .
This episode introduces the theme of xenophobic Humans later seen in " Demons " and " Terra Prime ".
On the bridge of the starship Columbia , Captain Archer mentions a Captain Jefferies . The remark is a reference to the second season episode " First Flight ", in which it was first mentioned that Jefferies is a major contributor to starship design, and Commander Tucker is a member of his team. Both lines of dialogue are also homages to Matt Jefferies , who designed the Constitution -class starship USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series , and also the namesake of the Jefferies tube .
Archer also mentions MACO General Casey , previously mentioned in the season 2 finale " The Expanse ".
This episode features both the first appearance of the planet Vulcan on Star Trek: Enterprise and the first glimpse of Vulcan cities in live-action Star Trek . (The Vulcan city ShiKahr had previously been depicted in TAS : " Yesteryear ".)
Episode writer Mike Sussman had hoped to finally establish in dialogue that the planet Vulcan orbits 40 Eridani , a long-held supposition among Star Trek fans ( Gene Roddenberry himself endorsed the idea [1] ). The closest Sussman was able to come to this was Tucker 's line to T'Pol : " You brought me sixteen light years just to watch you get married to someone you barely know. " (40 Eridani is approximately sixteen light years from Earth). Curiously, Sussman's production entity is named "40 Eridani."
Michael Reilly Burke makes his first of three appearances as Koss . He previously appeared as Goval in TNG : " Descent, Part II " and as Hogue in DS9 : " Profit and Loss ".
Koss was previously mentioned, but not seen, in the first season episode " Breaking the Ice ".
This is the first time since VOY : " Endgame " that a female starship captain has appeared on Star Trek .
Joanna Cassidy , who plays T'Les in this episode, originally auditioned to play the role of the USS Voyager 's captain, Kathryn Janeway .

The krellide power cell in "The Andorian Incident"

The prop seen as the fixed part of T'Les food processor in this episode was previously used as the krellide power cell in the first season episode " The Andorian Incident ". ( "The Andorian Incident", text commentary , ENT Season 1 DVD special feature )
T'Pol threatens to declare the kal-if-fee when her betrothed, Koss, informs her that he intends to go through with their prearranged marriage. Koss responds by suggesting that T'Pol's "Human friend" Trip Tucker might make a suitable challenger. In TOS : " Amok Time ", T'Pring , a Vulcan woman betrothed to Spock , does declare the kal-if-fee with Spock's "Human friend" Captain James T. Kirk as the challenger. " Amok Time " was the first Star Trek episode to visit the planet Vulcan.
Mike Sussman "dropped in a couple of references" to The Way of Kolinahr . [2]
At the beginning of the wedding ceremony, the official repeats the language used by T'Pau in TOS : " Amok Time ".

Phlox blowing up his face

This episode marks the first and only time that Phlox puffs up his face like a blowfish. This is a defense mechanism that is apparently instinctive to Denobulans .
During the scene between Phlox and Sato in sickbay, Sato mentions that Phlox talked about Madame Chang's egg drop soup as long as she's known him. While there were likely many off-screen references, the first on-screen reference is in ENT : " Broken Bow ": " But, what you lack biologically, you make up for with your charming optimism… not to mention your egg drop soup. "
While Archer and Hernandez are rock-climbing, Archer points out a star in the evening sky, around which orbits the first class M planet his crew visited (as chronicled in the first season episode " Strange New World "). This planet was later named Archer IV in his honor. Despite Archer's skepticism, a colony would later indeed be established on the planet, just as Hernandez suggested, with a thriving population of 700 million by 2268 . ( TNG : " Yesterday's Enterprise ", " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II " production art )
In that same scene Hernandez tells Archer that her old high school was recently named after him, continuing with: " I don't think Zefram Cochrane has that many schools named after him. " In Star Trek: First Contact , Geordi La Forge tells Cochrane that he attended Zefram Cochrane High School .
This is the only episode of Star Trek: Enterprise 's 4th Season in which Xindi appear, albeit only as a dream sequence.
This episode is very similar to the TNG Season 4 episode " Family "; both episodes use the crew's family and/or personal relationships to explore the repercussions of a recent traumatic event.
Captain Archer's line, "you'll spend a lot of your time boldly going into battle," is seemingly a reference to the famous opening title sequence from Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation (and later repeated on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ). The pilot episode of Enterprise , " Broken Bow ", establishes that the narration is a version of an in-universe quote spoken by Archer's childhood hero Zefram Cochrane .
At one point, Hernandez states she is "not sure how [she] feel[s] about a military officer on the bridge," which seems to indicate that Starfleet , at least in pre- Federation times, is not considered to be a military organization. This lines up with a similar comment made by Admiral Maxwell Forrest in ENT : " The Expanse ".
Archer reveals that 27 crew members died in the Expanse.
During the bar scene in the conversation between Archer and Hernandez, Archer asks her if she has seen any good movies when they were gone. Hernandez replies "another World War III epic, swept all of the awards…" which could imply that a big award giving body, like the Oscars, still exists in Archer's time.
Several props and costumes from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a Vulcan statue. [3]

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After a while, one of the cyborgs comes to life. Moninger screams and the other two enter to find the lab trashed and Moninger turning into a cyborg because he was injected with nanoprobes. Three days later, Admiral Forrest is notified that the scientists haven't been heard from in a while, so he and others go to look for them, only to find them gone.

Forrest informs Archer, who tells his senior staff in the situation room. Forrest apparently believe the scientists were abducted, and that their ship left at warp 3.9, faster than their transport is meant to be able to go. Malcolm asks what's expected of them, and Archer reveals that the ship appears to be headed towards where Enteprise is, so they've been ordered to intercept it and save the scientists. They head off, and Phlox does some research and finds no evidence of weapons, worrying Malcolm, since how could those aliens have overpowered the scientists with no weapons?

They then get a distress call from a Tarkalean freighter, but when they arrive to answer it, it's dead. They find the transport the scientists were in, but it's been altered, and it starts piercing the freighter with a beam. Archer hails the transport, threatening to attack, but it attacks instead. T'Pol detects nine humans (but with "erratic" life signs) on the transport. Malcolm then attempts to attack the transport, but the Enterprise is forced to retreat when it attacks back.

They take two survivors — a man and a woman — to sickbay, but they've been injected with nanoprobes too. Archer asks if the nanoprobes can be removed, but Phlox responds in the negative. T'Pol suggests putting them in decon, but Phlox won't be able to work there, so Archer has Malcolm put a guard around sickbay instead.

T'Pol contacts Tarkalea about the situation and tells Archer, who is reading a speech by Zefram Cochrane, explaining that a group of cybernetic aliens (the Borg) went back in time to enslave humanity but were stopped by time-travelers . T'Pol isn't sure and reminds Archer that Cochrane was a drunk and imaginative, but Archer still wonders if they're dealing with the same creatures.

The two Tarkaleans wake up and the man freaks out. Phlox goes to get him a sedative, and then the woman throws the guard across the room and the man injects Phlox with the nanoprobes, who passes out. The Tarkaleans leave and Phlox hears voices in his head, then is woken by Archer, Malcolm, and a group of other security officers. Archer orders Malcolm to track down the escaped Tarkaleans and subdue them.

Trip shows Archer scans of the modified transport, then T'Pol detects it, so Archer orders Travis to intercept it. Malcolm and his group find the Tarkalean woman changing some of the computers around her. Malcolm orders her to stop, but she ignores him, so they try firing at her, but she produces a shield which protects her. They try to escape, only to run into the Tarkalean man, who attacks, but they manage to stun him. Feeling like he has no choice, Archer opens a hatch and sends the two Tarkaleans out into space.

Hoshi feeds Phlox and his pets and wants to keep him company, but he says no for her safety. Trip and Malcolm look over the alterations to the technology but can't make heads or tails of them, and T'Pol suggests destroying the transport (but Archer isn't ready). Phlox, now looking very worse for wear, reveals that the nanoprobes are taking a while to transform him due to his immune system but are persistent. However, he has a solution— either exposure to a lot of omicron particles, or euthanasia. Meanwhile, Malcolm finds a way to upgrade the weapons so they can penetrate the shield.

They chase down the transport, but then Enterprise 's systems start failing, which Archer guesses is due to sabotage on the Tarkaleans' part. The transport hails them with a Creepy Monotone voice saying, "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile", proving that these are indeed the Borg.

While Phlox starts the omicron treatment and Trip tries to undo the sabotage, the Borg attack the Enterprise and Archer and Malcolm beam aboard the transport. They come across two drones, one of whom used to be Rooney, and give up on trying to save them. Trip makes progress in engineering, but unfortunately, six drones beam aboard Enterprise . The transport begins cutting Enterprise 's hull, but Archer and Malcolm manage to place charges in the EPS conduit and disrupt the power. Then, when the power starts returning, they destroy the transport.

Phlox recovers, but gives them data that he heard via the voices in his head; a message to the Delta Quadrant containing Earth's location. And it'll take two hundred years to reach the quadrant...

Agent Scully : T'Pol doesn't believe the story Cochrane gave about "cybernetic beings from the future," and also suggests that Phlox imagined having a connection with the aliens. That said, once it's clear how much of a threat the Borg are, she takes it seriously and advises Archer to destroy the transport rather than rescue the researchers.
Better to Die than Be Killed : Phlox has a neurotoxin standing by so that if his radiation treatment fails to de-assimilate him, he can be quickly and painlessly killed .
Call-Back : To Star Trek: First Contact . Turns out that even though the Enterprise-E destroyed the Borg sphere, much of the debris landed on Earth, including two drones.
"That shielding of theirs was impressive. We may as well have been firing holographic bullets ."
Archer recounts Zefram Cochrane's story of cybernetic beings from the future trying to disrupt First Contact and being defeated by a group of humans also from the future. No one took him seriously at the time.
When Enterprise runs into the Borg ship attacking a Tarkalean freighter, the Borg are slicing circular chunks out of it with a particle beam just like they did to the Enterprise -D in "Q Who?". The Borg later try the same thing with Enterprise , until Archer and Reed shut them down.
As he's recovering, Phlox tells Archer and T'Pol that he felt a telepathic connection with the other drones and was able to take down a numerical sequence. It turns out those numbers were the coordinates of Earth, and they've been sent to the Borg homeworld deep in the Delta Quadrant. Despite T'Pol's assurances that it would still take two hundred years to be received, provided it's still able to be received, Archer realizes all too well that the invasion has merely been postponed until the 24th Century . This, of course, helps explain why the Borg were practically on the Federation's doorstep by the time of TNG .
The researchers acquired a fair amount of information about the two Borg drones before things took a turn for the worse. Between that and what the NX-01 crew learn, this might offer an explanation for why the Hansens and Federation had heard of the Borg several years before the Enterprise -D's first encounter with them.
Phlox tells Malcolm about the Bynars, a species that Picard and his crew will learn a great deal about.
And speaking of Picard, when Malcolm makes it clear that he wants to keep technology outside of his body, Phlox asks him if he'd accept a synthetic organ if his heart were damaged. Picard winds up with an artificial heart after his fight with the Nausicaans.
Cassandra Truth : Zefram Cochrane told others of the Borg during a commencement speech at Princeton nearly 90 years ago, but being a known drunk, his story was dismissed as fiction and he recanted it a few years later. In the present, Archer recalls the speech and realizes that his story, despite the more fantastic elements, rings true given the nature of their enemy.
The Borg never refer to themselves by name, keeping their true identity a mystery until the 2360s. Archer: This is Captain— Borg: You Will Be Assimilated. Resistance Is Futile .
Eerie Arctic Research Station : Although the station isn't half as scary as what they end up researching.
The End... Or Is It? : The episode has some fun with it after Archer learns about the message. From his perspective, this is only the beginning, and he can only dread what's coming, but viewers already know how it will all work out.
"Eureka!" Moment : Phlox explains to Archer that he first tried to treat his condition as though it was a biological infection. Then he realized the nanoprobes are mechanical, not biological, and so he had to think like an engineer rather than a doctor. He extracted a number of nanoprobes and subjected them to radiation to see what could destroy them.
Failure Is the Only Option : Deconstructed. Archer is determined to save the researchers even after what's happened with the Tarkaleans, but T'Pol cautions him that it may be too late and that they should focus on destroying the ship instead. She ends up being right, and he takes it pretty hard. T'Pol: Did you find the research team? Archer: There isn't anyone on that ship that we can help anymore.
It was discussed briefly in Cogentior that Tucker needed extra protection from Omnicron radiation, but Phlox cured that with a magic hypospray. The sphere debris is most likely from the Queen's Sphere the Enterprise-E destroyed in 2063, so any methods used by this Enterprise's crew should have worked in every previous fight against the Borg, making their effective methods all the more unlikely.
From Nobody to Nightmare : The Borg turn an unarmed, low-warp transport ship into a warship that can rival Enterprise in less than a day.
Genre Blindness : The researchers find somewhat menacing cybernetic beings in the ice, dig them out, and let them thaw out even while knowing that their bodies are being repaired by nanoprobes. It's safe to assume that, perhaps with the exception of Moninger (since he showed concern), they had never seen any horror movie ever.
Godzilla Threshold : After seeing what the assimilated Tarkaleans are capable of and suspecting the same of everyone on the transport, T'Pol tells Archer to destroy it. He doesn't consider doing so, however, until he and Malcolm board the transport and see that everyone is beyond saving.
Hope Spot : As the drones' equipment suddenly begins reactivating, Moninger suggests putting the drones back in cold storage and wait to examine them under controlled conditions. His superior ignores this request. That was a mistake.
Mercy Kill : After Archer and Malcolm sabotage the Borg ship, T'Pol asks if any of the crew could be rescued. Archer simply says that they're beyond saving, before ordering the ship destroyed when it starts to come back online.
Mr. Imagination : According to T'Pol, Zefram Cochrane had an "overactive imagination".
While discussing cybernetic implants, Phlox notes the benefits of an artificial heart, which Picard had.
Phlox mentions once having encountered the Bynars and recalls witnessing the procedure where they replace part of a newborn's brain with cybernetic components.
No-Sell : Malcolm and his security team first try to stun the assimilated Tarkaleans. It doesn't work. Then they try the kill setting, and the Borg shielding has already kicked in. And the drone starts to approach them. Malcolm: Fall back !
Revisiting the Roots : Due to being a type of Forgotten First Meeting with regards to official contact in TNG, no one has any clue who the Borg are or what they are capable of. With some trial and error they start breaking down many of the established Borg concepts ( The Assimilator , Hive Mind , adapting to weapons fire ) but are a lot more ignorant of what they are really dealing with, whereas in other series any sight the Borg incites immediate terror and a desire to run .
Oh, Crap! : The situation prompts Archer to recall a refuted story by Zefram Cochrane about "what really happened" during First Contact. When he reads it, he finds that Cochrane had said that the goal of these creatures was "to enslave the human race."
Pink Elephants : Discussed when T'Pol notes that, since Zefram Cochrane drank a lot, his story about the Borg may have been inaccurate because he was seeing things. She's wrong.
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale : The arctic transport leaves Earth at Warp 3.9. With Enterprise over a hundred lightyears away, it would still take them weeks, if not months, to intercept.
Sequel Episode : To Star Trek: First Contact and also a prequel episode to TNG's "Q Who" by way of a Stable Time Loop .
Side Bet : When Drake radios for his team to begin digging, he asks them to contact Starfleet and tell Commander Williams that he owes him a bottle of scotch.
Stable Time Loop : Before being destroyed, the assimilated freighter sends a subspace message to the Borg homeworld in the Delta Quadrant: the coordinates of Earth. T'Pol and Archer note that if the message were received, it would not be until the 24th century— thus explaining why the Borg were heading for Earth in the first place in The Next Generation .
The arctic team leader, re the frozen Borg drones: "There's no reason to assume they're hostile." If only you knew...
In the same vein, Phlox doesn't think that the assimilated Tarkaleans are dangerous until they attack him and inject him with nanoprobes. Archer, at least, is wary and has security posted as a precaution, not that it helps.
Thrown Out the Airlock : When the assimilated Tarkaleans prove immune to phaser fire, Archer has Malcolm's team evacuate the section and then vents the whole thing into space, sucking the Tarkaleans out.
Was Once a Man : During the climax, Archer and Reed shoot a couple of drones. Archer recognizes one of them and scans her. Archer: This was one of the researchers. Reed: Was? Archer: Look at these bio-signs. They're not human anymore.
We Have Reserves : Trip wonders why the assimilated Tarkaleans would try to destroy the ship while they're still on it, not knowing that the Borg willingly sacrifice as many drones as they deem necessary to achieve their goals.
Field assimilation takes far longer, with victims incapacitated long enough to be mistaken for other injuries before turning (akin to zombies). Phlox is even able to develop a countermeasure while saying his Denobulan immune system was throwing the nanoprobes for a loop, though untreated they would eventually take hold of him. One could also imagine that the Tarkaleans are similarly more resistant to the nanoprobes than humans, just not to the same degree that Phlox is. All the other elements of assimilation appear to be right on the money.
It takes longer for the Borg to adapt to phase pistol fire, possibly due to both the slowed Borg efficiency but also the Borg are used to dealing with highly modular phasers that Starfleet uses in the 24th century rather than the more blunt phase pistols that they use in this timeframe . Several drones go down before others counter it with their Deflector Shields .
You Did the Right Thing : After Archer reluctantly has the two assimilated Tarkaleans sucked out into space , he's clearly troubled by this action. T'Pol tells him he did what he had to, but Archer clearly isn't sure. It's implied that this drives his determination to rescue everyone else who has been abducted, though by the end he realizes it's already too late.
You Have to Believe Me! : Turns out that Zefram Cochrane went off-script during a commencement address at Princeton and started talking about "what really happened" during the events of First Contact. Naturally, no one believed him and he eventually recanted the story. Archer thinks that there's something to the story; T'Pol dismissively notes that Cochrane had a reputation for telling "imaginative stories" and was "frequently intoxicated" . However, she seems to come around when she reads that the Borg's goal "was to enslave the human race," and reassures Archer that their transmission of Earth's location won't be received for 200 years, if at all, so there's no immediate danger from them.
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In a Mirror, Darkly

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Set in the dark and oppressive Mirror Universe, Commander Archer leads a mutiny in a bold attempt to seize control of an advanced starship - a vessel from the future that may be the key to saving the Terran Empire.
Another Enterprise is traveling in a mirror universe where everything is a great deal different. Zefram Cochrane shot the first Vulcan setting foot on Earth and mankind went the aggressive way. Today humans have formed the Terran Empire, assimilating many other species, but there's a devastating war with rebels going on. First officer Jonathan Archer disagrees with a decision Captain Forrest is making. He decides to take matters into his own hands and starts a mutiny. In command of the Enterprise, Archer sets course for Tholian space. Reports have shown that the Tholians have captured an Earth ship that might have come from another universe. — Arnoud Tiele ([email protected])
On April 5, 2063, in Bozeman, Montana of a mirror universe, Zefram Cochrane kills the Vulcans in their first contact. On May 13, 2155, the humans are part of a dark empire that uses force and torture to subdue other species, and they are close to being defeated by the rebels. On the Enterprise, First Officer Archer leads a mutiny against Captain Forrest and travels to Tholian space to take over the Earth ship Defiant that has come from the future of another universe and captured by the Tholians. They intend to use reverse engineering to research the advanced technology and weapons brought with them. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In 2063, a Vulcan ship lands on Earth (In Bozeman Montana), making first contact with humans (as seen in Star Trek: First Contact). Instead of peacefully greeting them, Zefram Cochrane shoots the lead Vulcan and the humans storm and loot the ship. The dark Earth history starts, which is an alternate time-line.. In 2155, Doctor Phlox and Major Reed demonstrate a new torture device (which is effective on any humanoid species) to Captain Forrest (Vaughn Armstrong) and Commander Archer on the ISS Enterprise. Archer suggests to Forrest they travel into Tholian space, as he has heard rumors of technology they might wish to steal. Earth is an Empire now and has an emperor as well. Earth is at war and it is not going well for them. The two argue, and Forrest returns to his quarters where he is comforted by Lieutenant Sato (Sato is supposed to be Forrest's mistress in the alternate time-line). Later, Forrest is ambushed by Archer and several MACOs (a military team) and sent to the brig. Archer travels to the bridge and announces that he has taken command. T'Pol is a sexy commander serving under Forrest. She knows that Starfleet has given no orders to go into Tholian space to steal tech.. After torturing a Tholian pilot (Whom they capture in Thorian space) for coordinates, he orders a change of course to the shipyard, and tells Commander T'Pol, whom he promotes to first officer, to install a Suliban cloaking device with Commander Tucker. Archer also appoints Sergeant Mayweather as his personal guard, and Sato proposes that she keep her job as Captain's woman (she tries to stab Archer, but he anticipates the move and stops her attack). Archer has Sato send a message to Starfleet about their mission to raid the Tholian technology. Tucker is injured when the cloaking device is sabotaged. Archer is tough as nails and wants Tucker back on the job fixing the cloaking device. Archer questions Forrest, who denies all knowledge, and Reed tortures Tucker expecting him to be the saboteur (Reed shows proof that Tucker initiated an EPS power overload that led to damage to the cloaking device). T'Pol leads a team to free Forrest and reclaim the ship, but Archer encrypts navigation control to prevent a course change (Archer had anticipated that it might be T'Pol who damaged the cloaking device and not Tucker. Her goal was to damage the internal sensors, the cloaking device was a by product only). Forrest tortures Archer, but orders his release after he receives word that Starfleet agrees with Archer's plans. Archer shows images of an alternate universe vessel from the future named USS Defiant (a Constitution-class star-ship, last seen in "The Tholian Web"), that has technology and power that is a century more advanced than ISS Enterprise. Archer says Tholians were experimenting with time travel and exploded a Tri-cobalt device in space, creating a space time rift. This created a doorway to a parallel universe, but the portal was too unstable. So, they sent a distress signal across the portal and lured a ship from the the side into our universe. The ship that came is not only from another universe, but also from 100 yrs in the future.. It is an Earth vessel, with advanced tech.. On arriving at the shipyard, Archer, T'Pol, and Tucker transport across, and Tucker begins powering up the vessel. Forrest wanted to destroy the ship, but Archer wants to take the ship with them. T'Pol was sent by Forrest, so that Archer doesn't return from the mission. Tholian vessels then attack, creating an energy web around the USS Defiant. The Enterprise is no longer invisible as the cloak disengages and Tholians attack it as well. Forrest orders the crew to abandon ship (reactor breach in 3 mins) but remains behind as the ship is destroyed.

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It's The (Other) Enterprise! How Discovery's I.S.S. Enterprise Connects Three Eras of Star Trek

The Mirror Enterprise had a long road getting from there to here.

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains story details and plot points for Star Trek: Discovery's "Mirrors."

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In the classic 1967 episode, " Mirror, Mirror ," when Kirk, Bones, Scotty, and Uhura accidentally beamed across dimensions, and onto another version of the Enterprise , the first clue that this was a parallel universe was the fact that the ship was orbiting around the Halkan homeworld from right-to-left, rather than left-to-right. So, the first glimpse of the I.S.S. Enterprise was simply that it was taking a different path, literally, zagging when it should have been zigging.

Ever since the debut of "Mirror, Mirror," the idea of an evil Enterprise grew in our imaginations, even if we didn't get to actually see it on-screen again. Even as the Mirror Universe expanded in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Star Trek: Enterprise , and Star Trek: Discovery , an on-screen glimpse of the I.S.S. Enterprise — traveling on a very different path from the U.S.S. Enterprise — remained elusive. That is, until now.

In the Discovery episode " Mirrors ," the final destination of this version of the Enterprise has been revealed, and in that revelation, the entire timeline of the Star Trek universe has been traversed. Unlike the classic 1701 of the Prime Universe, the I.S.S. Enterprise 's journey has lasted centuries. Here's how that journey unites at least three different aspects of the larger Star Trek story.

How Discovery Brings Back the Mirror Enterprise

"Mirrors"

In "Mirrors," the fifth episode of Discovery 's fifth season, Book and Burnham take a shuttlecraft into an unstable wormhole, hoping to find a trace of Moll and L'ak and the next piece of the puzzle that can lead them to the Progenitor 's elusive technology. But instead, adrift and displaced by nine centuries, and an entirely different dimension, they find the I.S.S. Enterprise , a ship Burnham never actually encountered while she was in the Mirror Universe in Discovery 's first season, but is nonetheless instantly familiar with.

While aboard, we learn that while this ship was part of the Terran Starfleet. At some point after the events of "Mirror, Mirror," a group of rebellious reformers commandeered this Enterprise , turning it into a ship of hope. Book finds a plaque on the ship which commemorates the ship's journey, pointing out that "The Terran High Chancellor was killed for trying to make reforms." This could reference Mirror Spock, though Burnham and Book would have no way of knowing that.

In "Mirror, Mirror," Kirk challenged Mirror Spock to be better, and try to reform the Empire which, we learned, actually did happen. But, interestingly, Burnham and Book only have one piece of the puzzle, the audience of all of the Star Trek franchise, has the rest.

The Deep Space Nine Connection

"Crossover"

In the 1994 Deep Space Nine episode " Crossover ," Kira and Bashir find themselves in the Mirror Universe after a warp bubble kerfuffle spits them out the Bajorian wormhole and into very unfamiliar territory. They’re in the Mirror Universe all right, but this is the 24th Century version of the Mirror Universe, not the 23rd Century time frame from "Mirror, Mirror." Kira comes face to face with her Mirror self, Intendant Kira, who tells her all about how Spock became the leader of the Empire, and began "preaching reforms" and "peace."

This neatly parallels what Book says in "Mirrors," but now, we learn that some Terrans who believed in peace escaped on the I.S.S. Enterprise . While the DS9 future of the Mirror Universe was bleak for Terrans, we now learn that some survived, and even made it to the Prime Universe thanks to the Enterprise .

The Story of Another Wayward, Vintage Starship

"In A Mirror Darkly, Part 2"

The Constitution -class I.S.S. Enterprise 's journey from the Mirror Universe of the 23rd Century to the 32nd Century is also reminiscent of another TOS Mirror Universe starship crossover. Back in Discovery 's first season, the crew learns everything they need to know about the Mirror Universe thanks to information about the U.S.S. Defiant , a ship, which like the I.S.S. Enterprise , eventually moved across universes and time, as well.

In the 1968 Original Series episode " The Tholian Web ," the U.S.S. Defiant vanishes, only to reappear in the 2005 Enterprise two-parter, " In a Mirror, Darkly ." As Burnham puts it in "Despite Yourself," this journey is unorthodox, "Data suggests that in the future, the Defiant will encounter a phenomenon that'll bring it into this alternative universe's past." This means that not only did the Defiant cross universes, but time-traveled too, from the 23rd Century setting of The Original Series , to the 22nd Century setting of Star Trek: Enterprise .

The I.S.S. Enterprise didn't travel from the 23rd century Mirror Universe straight to the 32nd century Prime Universe. As we learned in Discovery 's third season, crossing over directly between these universes at this point in time is impossible. But, it did crossover sometime before the end of the 24th Century; one of the mysterious 24th Century scientists, Dr. Cho, was Terran. And, that detail, brings the journey of the I.S.S. Enterprise , all the way back to the story of Discovery .

Discovery 's Hopeful Mirror Universe Tale

Book reads the I.S.S. Enterprise plaque in 'Mirrors'

Book reads the journey of the I.S.S. Enterprise to Burnham, mentioning that this crew escaped all thanks to the help of a "Keplian slave turned rebel leader." Instantly, Book and Burnham know this can only mean "Action Saru" himself, from the Mirror Universe.

This detail ties into Season 3's two-parter, " Terra Firma ," in which Georgiou re-entered the Mirror Universe in the 23rd Century, at a point in time prior to Burnham's crossover in Season 1. But, in this version of the Mirror Universe, Georgiou, like Mirror Spock, tried to affect some positive change, which had dire consequences for her. But, at the same time, in this Mirror Universe, Georgiou had also freed Saru, and we did see him leading a rebellion toward the end of the episode. As the Guardian of Forever told Georgiou in " Terra Firma, Part 2 ," her actions in at least one version of the Mirror Universe had a big, positive impact, "You saved a Kelpien. And you didn't have to do that. And he'll save others. A lot of them."

So, thanks to Georgiou, Mirror Spock, and Action Saru, the story of the Mirror Universe in Star Trek: Discovery 's final season has become an optimistic one. Like the idealistic Terran rebels in Deep Space Nine 's " Through the Looking Glass ," not all stories about the darkest dimension in Star Trek have to end in despair. And thanks to crossover between dimensions, the I.S.S. Enterprise has now become a beacon of hope in not one universe, but two.

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Star trek’s 10 most evil mirror universe characters.

Star Trek's Mirror Universe is home to the most evil versions of our favorite Starfleet heroes, but which ones are the best of the worst?

The Mirror Universe boasts evil versions of beloved Star Trek characters — Mirror Spock, Mirror Sulu, Regent Worf, & more stand out.
Evil Mirror Universe variants like Mirror Kirk and Intendant Kira showcase the dark side of well-loved Star Trek characters in a compelling way.
Mirror Universe characters like Emperor Georgiou, Captain Killy, and Dr. Phlox display extreme evil actions, making them the "worst of the worst."

Star Trek 's Mirror Universe is home to the most evil versions of some of the franchise's most beloved heroes, but which ones are the best of the worst? First introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 10, "Mirror, Mirror", the Mirror Universe is the Federation's darkest timeline, where humanity embraced brutal fascism over peace, love and understanding. Although the Mirror Universe only appeared in one episode of TOS , bearded Mirror Spock (Leonard Nimoy) left a huge impression on popular culture, leading to multiple returns to the dark timeline and its evil alternates in later Star Trek TV shows .

Arguably, the most evil Mirror Universe character was Mirror Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell), who met the visiting Vulcan delegation with a shotgun blast . Cochrane's murderous first contact established how the Terran Empire would go on to subjugate countless species in Star Trek 's Mirror Universe. However, it was just the human Star Trek heroes that had evil Mirror Universe variants , the franchise's best-loved Bajoran, Klingon, and Cardassian characters also had their dark opposites. In a whole universe of evil Star Trek characters, it can be hard to narrow down exactly which ones are the best at being the worst.

Star Trek: Voyager & DS9 Crossed Over In The Mirror Universe

10 mirror hikaru sulu (george takei), "you will also appear to have killed him after a fierce battle. regrettable, but it will leave me in command.".

Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) was thrown into the complicated power dynamics of the Mirror Universe when he and his away team were stranded there in "Mirror, Mirror". After preventing Mirror Chekov (Walter Koenig) from assassinating him, Prime Kirk then had to contend with an attempt on his life from Mirror Hikaru Sulu (George Takei). Sulu versus Kirk was the climax of "Mirror, Mirror", as the ISS Enterprise's lieutenant tried to murder his way to the center seat.

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Star Trek: The Original Series follows the exploits of the crew of the USS Enterprise. On a five-year mission to explore uncharted space, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) must trust his crew - Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Forest DeKelley), Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Sulu (George Takei) - with his life. Facing previously undiscovered life forms and civilizations and representing humanity among the stars on behalf of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets, the Enterprise regularly comes up against impossible odds and diplomatic dilemmas.

Mirror Sulu was, predictably, a more cruel and bitter version of his Prime Universe counterpart. Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichele Nichols) got a sense of Mirror Sulu's harsher side when she had to play on his infatuation with her Terran counterpart. Although he wasn't the worst of the worst of Star Trek 's Mirror Universe characters, Mirror Sulu is a great example of the dark side of some of the franchise's best loved characters . However, despite being cruel, conniving, and a stone-cold killer, Sulu was bested by Prime Kirk in a final showdown.

9 Regent Worf (Michael Dorn)

"this time, i will deal with the rebels myself.".

Regent Worf (Michael Dorn) was the ruler of Star Trek 's Mirror Universe during the 24th century, so he was obviously an evil guy. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine revealed that the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance enslaved all Terrans and Vulcans in various regions of their territory. As the Regent, Worf oversaw the violent oppression of these slaves throughout his reign . The Regent relied on his Intendants to keep the Terrans under his heel, and was enraged by the loss of the Terok Nor space station .

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, also known as DS9, is the fourth series in the long-running Sci-Fi franchise, Star Trek. DS9 was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and stars Avery Brooks, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, and Cirroc Lofton. This particular series follows a group of individuals in a space station near a planet called Bajor.

Worf doled out cruel and degrading punishments to those that failed him, including Mirror Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) who was forced to wear a dog collar for losing Terok Nor to the rebels. However, as evil as Regent Worf may have been, he was presented as a fairly ineffective leader whose empire was crumbling around him . He suffered two embarassing losses in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , at the hands of Prime Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the ISS Defiant, and then even got duped by Prime Quark (Armin Shimerman) and Rom (Max Grodenchik) who installed a faulty cloaking device aboard his flagship.

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8 mirror dr. phlox (john billingsley), "will you kindly die".

The Mirror Universe version of the avuncular Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley) was a sadist who specialized in torture . Phlox conducted horrific experiments on living beings in pursuit of medical advancement, and served as the chief medical officer aboard the ISS Enterprise NX-01. Phlox specialized in concocting new means of torture to punish the enemies of the Terran Empire, leading to the creation of the Agony booth. This technology conducted a synaptic scan of any humanoid, so that it could stimulate every available pain center, keeping its victims in a state of constant agony.

The Agony booth or "Agonizer" was used across the Terran Empire, having been seen in Star Trek: The Original Series ' "Mirror, Mirror", and the Mirror Universe episodes of Star Trek: Discovery .

Despite being an evil sadist, Dr. Phlox was eventually convinced to join the attempt to stop Mirror Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) from using the USS Defiant to become Terran Emperor. However, as ever in Star Trek 's Mirror Universe, Phlox's actions were driven by self-interest more than moral duty. Phlox only agreed to stop Archer because he believed that, by saving the life of the incumbent Terran Emperor, he would be rewarded with multiple concubines and an impressive new medical facility .

7 Mirror Commander Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula)

"more like a federation of fools".

In Star Trek: Enterprise 's Mirror Universe, Jonathan Archer was still a Commander, serving alongside Captain Maximillian Forrest (one of Vaughn Armstrong's multiple Star Trek roles ). Archer's feelings of inadequacy compared to Forrester led him to commit some reckless and evil acts. After stealing the USS Defiant, Archer wanted to gain the respect of his crew, and so launched an assault on a Gorn foreman that had remained aboard the ship. Archer's attack on the Gorn resulted in many of his MACO troopers being killed, and also left Major Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating) seriously injured.

Mirror Archer is the earliest Star Trek captain to face a Gorn in any timeline.

Mirror Archer was insane, taunted by an illusion of his superior Prime Counterpart, who drove him to more and more reckless actions. Archer murdered Admiral Black (Gregory Itzin) and assumed command of the USS Defiant, with which he intended to stage a military coup. Archer became increasingly unhinged, and ordered the deaths of the Defiant's alien crew members, except for Dr. Phlox. Archer was eventually stopped from assuming control of the Terran Emperor, putting an end to further evil acts from the Enterprise captain.

Enterprise’s Mirror Universe Episodes Marked The Sad End Of The Star Trek Prequel

6 emperor philippa georgiou (michelle yeoh), "i'm extremely wicked, even for a terran.".

Star Trek: Discovery 's Emperor Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) has certainly gone some way to redeeming her actions in the Mirror Universe. However, it might take a lot more than ending the Federation-Klingon War to wash away the sins of Georgiou from her reign as Terran Emperor. Georgiou rendered the Klingon home world Qo'noS uninhabitable, subjugated the Betazoids and destroyed Mintaka III. Emperor Georgiou also launched a bombardment against the Talosians for trying to trick her with their mental projections .

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Georgiou was less xenophobic than her predecessors, happily accepting the native titles of the Vulcans, Andorians and Klingons that she ruled over. It was perhaps this openness with "lesser" species that made her opponents see Emperor Georgiou as a weak leader. The failed coup against Emperor Georgiou led to her traveling to the Prime Universe, where she now lives as a Section 31 operative. It's said that the upcoming Star Trek: Section 31 movie will see Georgiou confront the sins of her past, continuing the redemptive journey she began in Star Trek: Discovery season 2 .

5 Captain Sylvia "Killy" (Mary Wiseman)

"i'm gonna have nightmares about myself now.".

Captain Sylvia "Killy" (Mary Wiseman) was the captain of the ISS Discovery, and a close colleague of Emperor Philippa Georgiou . Tilly rose to her position by murdering the previous captain while they were recovering from an illness, which is one of the most ruthless in a long list of Mirror Universe murders. As captain of the ISS Discovery, the Mirror Universe version of Tilly was just as responsible for the subjugation of the Betazoids and devastation of Mintaka III. However, unlike Georgiou, Mirror Tilly, who had earned the nickname "Killy" never got a chance to redeem herself later in Star Trek: Discovery , nor would she likely want one .

Mary Wiseman's character, Lt. Sylvia Tilly was named after the niece of Star Trek: Discovery producer Gretchen J. Berg.

The Mirror Universe Tilly was terrifying to her Prime Universe counterpart, who worried that she'd have nightmares about herself. With such nicknames as "The Slayer of Sorna Prime" and "The Witch of Wurna Prime", it's no wonder that Tilly was so unnerved by her Mirror Universe counterpart. "Killy" was the darker, more ambitious version of Star Trek: Discovery 's Tilly, and she had an impressive, if terrifying list of accolades;

Medal of Valor
Master of Poisons Medal
50 Kills Medal

Star Trek: Discovery Proves Starfleet Academy Show Doesn’t Make Sense Without Tilly

4 empress hoshi sato (linda park), "you're speaking with empress sato. prepare to receive instructions.".

The Mirror Universe version of Hoshi Sato (Linda Park) from Star Trek: Enterprise was an incredibly smart woman who knew which powerful man to throw in her lot with. Effectively playing off Mirror Archer and Mirror Forrest against each other, Hoshi placed herself in a position where she could use the USS Defiant to hold Earth to ransom. Staying close to Archer as his lover during his plot to steal the technologically superior USS Defiant from the Tholians, she waited until the time was right to depose the ambitious leader.

Mirror Archer ordered that any information about the Federation held on the USS Defiant's systems be erased so as not to inspire a rebellion against the Terran Empire, a reference to Mirror Spock being inspired by Prime Kirk's tales of the Federation.

Hoshi seduced Mirror Archer's personal security officer, Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery) to help her with a poisoning plot. Killing Archer with poisoned champagne, Hoshi became commanding officer of the USS Defiant. She then holds the entire planet Earth to ransom with the USS Defiant in a hostile takeover of the entire Terran Empire. Hoshi's military coup was one of the boldest moves achieved by any of Star Trek 's Mirror Universe variants .

3 Intendant Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor)

"i have no taste for violence. i regret using it even when it seems necessary.".

Intendant Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) is the only character to feature in all five of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's Mirror Universe episodes . Mirror Kira was a fascinating character who ruled Terok Nor at the behest of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Although she was very clearly evil, Intendant Kira Nerys was less brutal than some of her Mirror Universe contemporaries, preferring instead to use manipulation and her sexuality to get what she wanted. That being said, the Intendant regularly veered from ordering the execution of Terran Rebels to subjugating others as her personal slaves to her every whim.

Nana Visitor once described Intendant Kira as such: " I t's very much me. I mean, I hope I don't send people to their deaths or anything like that, but yeah, that is more of who I am ."

The Intendant was so vain that she was even attracted to Major Kira from the prime Star Trek timeline . As with many Mirror Universe variants, Intendant Kira Nerys was adept at self-preservation, and she would easily stab her allies in the back if it saved her life. For example, Intendant Kira murders the Mirror Universe's Nog (Aron Eisenberg) even though the young Ferengi had freed her from prison. In her final Star Trek: Deep Space Nine appearance, the Intendant orchestrates the sabotage of Regent Worf's flagship, leaving behind the ruler of the Mirror Universe to face the punishment of the Terran Rebellion .

Major Kira's Best Star Trek DS9 Episodes

2 mirror captain james t. kirk (william shatner), "has the whole galaxy gone crazy".

The majority of Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 20, "Mirror, Mirror" has Prime Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) fill in for his Terran counterpart. This means that it's hard to get a handle on how truly evil Mirror Universe Kirk actually was. However, there is a staggering list of crimes attributed to the Terran Empire's Captain James T. Kirk in "Mirror, Mirror". As well as murdering Captain Christopher Pike to assume command of the ISS Enterprise, he used stolen alien technology, the Tantalus field, to vaporize his enemies.

William Shatner had pitched the return of Mirror Kirk to Rick Berman as a potential episode of Star Trek: Enterprise season 4.

Mirror Kirk is also said to have executed 5000 colonists on Vega IX, and also destroyed the home planet of the Gorlans' . None of these genocidal actions are depicted on-screen in Star Trek: The Original Series , as the real Mirror Kirk is largely confined to a cell aboard the Prime Universe's USS Enterprise. However, there's no question that the Mirror Universe's Captain Kirk was one of the very worst of the worst of Star Trek 's Mirror Universe characters.

1 Mirror Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs)

"i have been to another universe and back. you think i'd come all this way without a plan".

Budding Terran Emperor, Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) is the greatest Star Trek: Discovery villain and the most evil of Mirror Universe characters. Following his unsuccessful coup against Emperor Philippa Georgiou, Lorca fled to the Prime Universe, where he assumed the identity of his counterpart. This was one of Lorca's most evil moves, as he infiltrated his Prime Counterpart's life and career, including his romantic relationship with Admiral Katrina Cornwall (Jayne Brook). Not only did Mirror Lorca embark on a sexual relationship on false pretenses, he " groomed " Mirror Michael Burnham, proving that he was a sexual deviant as well as a brutal oppressor .

Jason Isaacs originally wanted to turn down the role of Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery out of respect for Star Trek: The Original Series .

As well as his sexual crimes, Lorca was responsible for killing his entire crew by destroying the USS Buran on arrival in the Prime Universe. While Lorca claimed he was saving them from the brutal treatment they'd receive as prisoners of the Klingon Empire, his actions elsewhere suggest he was simply removing an obstacle to his goals . By inveigling his way into Starfleet and the USS Discovery, Lorca then goes back to the Mirror Universe to launch another attempt to seize the throne of the Terran Empire. Lorca's wholesale murder of his Mirror Universe crew, his manipulation of the women in his life, and the betrayal of the USS Discovery crew make him the Star Trek character with the blackest of black hearts.

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Star Trek: Discovery's Enterprise Plaque Reveals New Mirror Universe History Details

Warning: This Article Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 5 - "Mirrors"

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5, "Mirrors", reveals new details about the Mirror Universe's history on the ISS Enterprise.
The dedication plaque on the starship sheds light on events in the late-23rd century after "Mirror, Mirror" from TOS season 2.
Burnham and Booker found the ISS Enterprise in interdimensional space and brought it into the 32nd century Prime Universe.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5, "Mirrors", shockingly brought the ISS Enterprise into the 32nd century, and the starship's dedication plaque reveals new details about the Mirror Universe's history. Written by Johanna Lee and Carlos Cisco and directed by Jen McGowan, "Mirrors" brought Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) into interdimensional space in pursuit of the next clue to the ancient treasure of the Progenitors, which was hidden aboard the 23rd century ISS Enterprise from the Mirror Universe.

On his X account, Jörg Hillebrand (@gaghyogi49), who was a researcher for Star Trek: Picard season 3 renowned for his attention to detail, posted a clear translation of the ISS Enterprise's dedication plaque from Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5 . The illuminated text reveals what happened in the late-23rd century Mirror Universe after the events of Star Trek: The Original Series season 2's "Mirror, Mirror." Read the post below:

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A timeline of star trek's mirror universe, from the terran empire to the temporal wars.

The Mirror Universe was introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series season 2's "Mirror, Mirror" and its canonical history can be tracked through Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Star Trek: Discovery. The earliest chronological glimpse of the Mirror Universe is on April 5, 2063, when Zephram Cochrane (James Cromwell) murdered a Vulcan after making First Contact in Enterprise 's "In A Mirror, Darkly". In the 22nd century of Star Trek: Enterprise 's Mirror Universe , Commander Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) captured the USS Defiant from the 23rd century, but he was betrayed by Hoshi Sato (Linda Park), who declared herself Empress of the Terran Empire.

In the 23rd century of Star Trek: Discovery , the Mirror Universe was ruled by Emperor Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh). Georgiou jumped to Star Trek 's Prime Universe aboard the USS Discovery after defeating a coup by Gabriel Lorca (Jason Issacs) . The Terran Empire continued unabated, but after Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) briefly switched places with his Mirror Universe counterpart, he convinced the Mirror Spock (Leonard Nimoy) to institute reforms to save the Terran Empire from its inevitable collapse.

Refugees fled the Mirror Universe aboard the stolen ISS Enterprise.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5 episode 5 reveals that High Chancellor Spock did change the Terran Empire, but he was assassinated for weakness. Refugees fled the Mirror Universe aboard the stolen ISS Enterprise, thanks to the Mirror Saru (Doug Jones), a rebel leader. The ISS Enterprise's personnel did make it to the Prime Universe. However, in the Mirror Universe, the Terran Empire was conquered by the Klingon/Cardassian Alliance , as detailed in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . By Star Trek: Discovery 's 32nd century, the Mirror and Prime Universe timelines have split further apart thanks to the Temporal Wars, making crossing over impossible.

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Get to know James Cromwell: Biography, Age, Career, Net Worth, Height, Relationship & More

James Cromwell is an American actor and activist known for his extensive work as a character actor, and has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe.

James Cromwell is best known for his role as Dr. Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact and has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.

James Cromwell started out as a character actor in supporting roles in the 1980s and has since appeared in numerous television movies and miniseries.

James Cromwell’s Biography

James Oliver Cromwell born January 27, 1940, is an American actor and activist known for his extensive work as a character actor, and has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe (1995).

Some notable roles of James Cromwell include in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), The Queen (2006), W. (2008), Secretariat (2010), The Artist (2011), Still Mine (2013), and Marshall (2017). He has also voiced roles in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), and Big Hero 6 (2014).

James Cromwell is also well known for his roles in television including Angels in America (2003), Six Feet Under (2003–2005), American Horror Story: Asylum (2012–2013), Boardwalk Empire (2012-2013), The Young Pope (2016), Succession (2018–present), and Counterpart (2018–2019). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role in American Horror Story: Asylum (2012).

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James Cromwell made appearances in films with supporting roles in Tank and Revenge of the Nerds (both 1984). He guest starred on the sitcom Night Court, playing a mental patient, along with Kevin Peter Hall. He had starring roles in the critically acclaimed films Babe (1995), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), The Education of Little Tree (1997), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), The General’s Daughter, (1999) and Snow Falling on Cedars (1999).

James Cromwell’s first Star Trek role was on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990, in the season 3 episode “The Hunted”, followed by the 1993 episode “Birthright, Part 1” as Jaglom Shrek. He also played Dr. Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode “Broken Bow”, and the 2022 Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3 premiere episode, “Grounded”. The Star Trek: Enterprise episode “In a Mirror, Darkly” reused some of the First Contact footage.

James Cromwell appeared in another Star Trek role on the television series Deep Space Nine, in the episode “Starship Down” as Hanok. He also voiced the Colonel in DreamWorks’ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

In 2020, James Cromwell starred in the Australian comedy-drama film Never Too Late. He starred in Operation Buffalo, an Australian television comedy-drama series about the atomic bomb tests in outback Australia, which screened on ABC from 31 May 2020. He is featured in the HBO Max show Julia, as Julia Child’s father, John McWilliams.

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In an October 2008 interview, James Cromwell criticized the Republican Party and the George W. Bush administration, saying their foreign policy would “destroy us or the whole planet.” He endorsed Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in the 2016 US presidential election.

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James Cromwell is an American born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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How old is James Cromwell?

Born on January 27, 1940, James Cromwell is 83 years

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James Cromwell stands 6 feet 6¼ inches (1.99 m) tall and weighs 88 kg (194.01 lbs)

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James Cromwell’s first television appearance was in a 1974 episode of The Rockford Files, playing tennis coach Terry. A few weeks later, he began appearing regularly as Stretch Cunningham on All in the Family. In 1975, he made his television debut as Bill Lewis in the short-lived series Hot Baltimore, and as Captain Leo Baldonaro in the episode “Last Laugh” of MAS*H. A year later, he made his film debut in Neil Simon’s classic detective spoof Murder by Death.

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James Cromwell married Ann Ulvestad in 1977, but they divorced in 1986 after having three children: Kate, John and Colin. James Cromwell then married actress Julie Cobb on May 29, 1986, but also got divorced in 2005for the second time. On January 1, 2014, for the third time, James Cromwell married actress Anna Stuart at the home of Stuart’s former Another World co-star Charles Keating.

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James Cromwell is the son of actress Kay Johnson and actor and director John Cromwell, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. His parents divorced in 1946. He has English, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.

James Cromwell graduated from The Hill School in 1958, and went on to Middlebury College, and Carnegie Mellon University, where he graduated with a B.F.A. in 1964. He received his acting training at HB Studio in New York City.

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James Cromwell goes by the handle (@jamesocromwell) on Twitter but seems not to be on Instagram as there appears to be no handle linked to him.

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"Star Trek" Metamorphosis (TV Episode 1967)
Metamorphosis: Directed by Ralph Senensky. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Glenn Corbett. While returning to the Enterprise aboard the shuttlecraft, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a seriously ill Federation diplomat find themselves kidnapped by an energized cloud.
Metamorphosis (episode)
Sci-fi. Star Trek. On an isolated asteroid, Kirk finds Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, who has been missing for 150 years. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are ferrying Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford back to the USS Enterprise. The commissioner, who has been called upon by the Federation to prevent a war...
Zefram Cochrane
Zefram Cochrane is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe.Created by writer Gene L. Coon, the character first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Metamorphosis", in which he was played by Glenn Corbett. James Cromwell later played Cochrane in the 1996 feature film Star Trek: First Contact, the 2001 Star Trek: Enterprise pilot, "Broken Bow", and the 2022 Star Trek: Lower Decks ...
Zefram Cochrane
Dr. Zefram Cochrane was a Human scientist in the 21st century and a pivotal figure in Human history. An eccentric genius, he was the inventor of warp drive on Earth and became the first recorded Human to travel faster than light, prompting official first contact with the Vulcans. (Star Trek: First Contact; ENT: "Broken Bow", "Future Tense", "Home"; TOS: "Metamorphosis"; TNG: "New Ground"; VOY ...
In a Mirror, Darkly
List of episodes. " In a Mirror, Darkly " is the eighteenth and nineteenth episodes of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, and originally aired on April 22 and 29, 2005. This installment was developed to be a sequel to The Original Series episode "The Tholian Web" and a prequel to "Mirror ...
Metamorphosis (Star Trek: The Original Series)
"Metamorphosis" is the ninth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Gene L. Coon and directed by Ralph Senensky, it was first broadcast on November 10, 1967.. In the episode, a shuttle crew from the USS Enterprise encounters a man out of history and his mysterious alien companion. It is the franchise's first mention, and first ...
Recap / Star Trek: Enterprise S04E18 "In a Mirror, Darkly"
Star Trek: Enterprise S04E18 "In a Mirror, Darkly". Long live the Empire! In the teaser, set April 5, 2063, Zefram Cochrane greets the Vulcan emissary making First Contact with the human race... only to draw a shotgun from under his coat and shoot him. The humans then storm the spaceship, intent on plundering its advanced technology.
"Star Trek: Enterprise" In a Mirror, Darkly (TV Episode 2005)
TNG had "Relics", DS9 had "Trials and Tribble-ations" , VOY gave us "Flashback" and for the 700th episode of live action Star Trek ever aired Enterprise gives us "In A Mirror, Darkly". This tale is a cleverly written continuity barrage that gives fans a high quality and thoroughly enjoyable mirror episode.
The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane
"The name of Zefram Cochrane is revered throughout the known galaxy. Planets were named after him. Great universities, cities." - Spock Despite making only a few appearances, Dr. Zefram Cochrane casts a long shadow on the entire Star Trek franchise.He was, after all, the man who helped launch humanity's journey to the stars by creating Earth's first Warp Drive, and the one who ...
Zefram Cochrane
Zefram Cochrane is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. Created by writer Gene L. Coon, the character first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Metamorphosis", in which he was played by Glenn Corbett. James Cromwell later played Cochrane in the 1996 feature film Star Trek: First Contact, the 2001 Star Trek: Enterprise pilot, "Broken Bow", and the 2022 Star Trek: Lower Decks ...
Star Trek: The Original Series; examining "Metamorphosis," 55 years
Cromwell would later cameo as a much older Zefram Cochrane in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, "Broken Bow", which premiered in 2001. A clever combination of forced perspective and foreground miniatures placed in front of the camera gives this scene of Cochrane greeting the Enterprise's castaways a feeling of great scale.
Zefram Cochrane (Star Trek Lore)
We see the pioneer of warp drive three times in Star Trek, once in TOS "Metamorphosis", First Contact's Cochrane in 2063 and again in Enterprise's "Broken Bo...
Zefram Cochrane
Zefram Cochrane was born on Earth [1] in 2032 [2] [3] and lived through the chaos of World War III [1] before inventing the warp drive engine [2] and building humanity 's first warp-capable vessel, the Phoenix. [1] On 5 April 2063, Cochrane piloted the Phoenix past the speed of light. This caught the attention of a passing Vulcan science vessel ...
Star Trek S2 E9 "Metamorphosis" / Recap
Star Trek S2 E9 "Metamorphosis". Original air date: November 10, 1967. Kirk, Spock, Bones, and our Girl of the Week, Nancy Hedford, are flying around on the Galileo shuttlecraft. Nancy is some Federation bigwig and apparently also a 1960s mod fashion aficionado. She was on an important mission when she contracted a rare space disease and is ...
Home (episode)
" In Star Trek: First Contact, Geordi La Forge tells Cochrane that he attended Zefram Cochrane High School. This is the only episode of Star Trek: Enterprise's 4th Season in which Xindi appear, albeit only as a dream sequence.
Recap / Star Trek: Enterprise S02E023 "Regeneration"
Star Trek: Enterprise S02E023 "Regeneration". Don't worry, this one makes a little more sense than the Ferengi episode. Three scientists named Drake, Rooney, and Moninger are in the Arctic where a crashed alien ship is, and discover an ashy-skinned, cyborg corpse. They set up a camp and Rooney finds a second one, then Moninger examines the dead ...
"Star Trek: Enterprise" In a Mirror, Darkly (TV Episode 2005)
On April 5, 2063, in Bozeman, Montana of a mirror universe, Zefram Cochrane kills the Vulcans in their first contact. On May 13, 2155, the humans are part of a dark empire that uses force and torture to subdue other species, and they are close to being defeated by the rebels. On the Enterprise, First Officer Archer leads a mutiny against ...
How Star Trek: First Contact Found A Replacement For Glenn ...
The inventor of warp drive was Zefram Cochrane, who fashioned his ship out of a disused bomb casing. ... Cromwell would return to play Cochrane in an episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise" and as a ...
Broken Bow (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Star Trek: Enterprise. ) " Broken Bow " is the two-part series premiere of the science fiction television series Enterprise (later renamed Star Trek: Enterprise ). It originally aired as a double-length episode, but was split into two parts for syndication, though releases on home media and streaming maintain its original one-episode format.
Elinor Donahue Played An Unseen Second Role In Star Trek's ...
In the "Star Trek" episode "Metamorphosis" (November 10, 1967), an important dignitary named Commissioner Nancy Hedford (Elinor Donohue) is being transported to the U.S.S. Enterprise to undergo a ...
Below Deck with Lower Decks: Zefram Cochrane and the Phoenix
While the Bozeman connection was introduced to fans in First Contact, Zefram Cochrane has been a part of the Star Trek mythos since the days of The Original Series. Introduced in the 1967 second-season episode " Metamorphosis ," Cochrane, as portrayed by actor Glenn Corbett, is found by Captain James Kirk. Listed as missing in space long ...
It's The (Other) Enterprise! How Discovery's I.S.S ...
In the classic 1967 episode, "Mirror, Mirror," when Kirk, Bones, Scotty, and Uhura accidentally beamed across dimensions, and onto another version of the Enterprise, the first clue that this was a parallel universe was the fact that the ship was orbiting around the Halkan homeworld from right-to-left, rather than left-to-right.So, the first glimpse of the I.S.S. Enterprise was simply that it ...
Why Star Trek Changed TOS' Zefram Cochrane So Much In First Contact
Published Mar 19, 2021. Zefram Cochrane was completely changed as a character in Star Trek: First Contact so that the film could give him a more satisfying story arc. Zefram Cochrane went through a radical character change in Star Trek: First Contact from how he was portrayed in Star Trek: The Original Series, mostly due to the producers ...
How 'Star Trek: First Contact' Cast James Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane
The search for the perfect Zefram Cochrane in "Star Trek: First Contact" initially involved discussions about potential dream actors for the role. One notable mention was Oscar-winning actor ...
Star Trek Is Officially Redefining What "Where No One Has Gone Before
Star Trek is a story of exploration and discovery, and this catchphrase perfectly sums up this philosophy. Every week, the crews of the various Star Trek shows encounter bizarre alien life forms and awe-inspiring stellar phenomena. Ships like the Enterprise, Voyager or Discovery expanded the frontiers of knowledge while keeping the galaxy safe.Star Trek's opening monologs set the tone ...
Star Trek's 10 Most Evil Mirror Universe Characters
Star Trek: The Original Series follows the exploits of the crew of the USS Enterprise. On a five-year mission to explore uncharted space, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) must trust his crew - Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Forest DeKelley), Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Sulu (George Takei) - with his life.
Star Trek: Discovery's Enterprise Plaque Reveals New Mirror Universe
Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5, "Mirrors", reveals new details about the Mirror Universe's history on the ISS Enterprise. The dedication plaque on the starship sheds light on events in ...
Get to know James Cromwell: Biography, Age, Career, Net Worth, Height
James Cromwell's first Star Trek role was on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990, in the season 3 episode "The Hunted", followed by the 1993 episode "Birthright, Part 1" as Jaglom Shrek. He also played Dr. Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow", and the 2022 Star ...