Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast
Oct 19, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min · 11 segments
It’s time to re-enter the Mirror Universe and see what campy nonsense they’ve been getting up to! In a Mirror Darkly shows you how a betrayal-based society managed to keep going for as long as they…
Charlie Etheridge-NunnHost
Miles Reid-LobattoHostBegin! So, Zephrym Cochrane and some post-eugenics war humans greet some arriving Vulcans.
Welcome to the Mirror Universe, bitch! We also get some nice alternate titles with grim, ominous music.
Anyway, we're on the Enterprise where Phlox frankly is pretty much unchanged.
But he is using Reed's fancy new torture booth to interrogate a Tellarite.
Why? Why not? We have Captain Forrest in charge, along with Archer trying his best to look mean and not pulling it off.
Archer keeps pitching to Forrest about a trip into Tholian space in order to check out some cool technology.
Forrest then goes to his quarters to do some madmen, and Hoshi Sato's there at a nightie.
She's the captain's woman, and mentions at word on the ships the war's going to be over soon.
Speaking of which, it's mutiny time! Yay! Archery Company ambush Forest and overthrow him.
The mutineers take the bridge where T'Pol's lounging in the captain's chair with her midriff on display for our viewing pleasure.
Archer assumes command and T'Pol doubts his claims that Starfleet want them to go into Tholian space.
He assigns her to help a horrendously scarred Tucker with a Suluban cloaking device, so they've dealt with them in this world.
Also, Zefram Cochrane's gun, which he shot Vulcans with, which feels a bit like a threat.
Begin! So, Zephrym Cochrane and some post-eugenics war humans greet some arriving Vulcans.
Welcome to the Mirror Universe, bitch! We also get some nice alternate titles with grim, ominous music.
Anyway, we're on the Enterprise where Phlox frankly is pretty much unchanged.
But he is using Reed's fancy new torture booth to interrogate a Tellarite.
Why? Why not? We have Captain Forrest in charge, along with Archer trying his best to look mean and not pulling it off.
Archer keeps pitching to Forrest about a trip into Tholian space in order to check out some cool technology.
Forrest then goes to his quarters to do some madmen, and Hoshi Sato's there at a nightie.
She's the captain's woman, and mentions at word on the ships the war's going to be over soon.
Speaking of which, it's mutiny time! Yay! Archery Company ambush Forest and overthrow him.
The mutineers take the bridge where T'Pol's lounging in the captain's chair with her midriff on display for our viewing pleasure.
Archer assumes command and T'Pol doubts his claims that Starfleet want them to go into Tholian space.
He assigns her to help a horrendously scarred Tucker with a Suluban cloaking device, so they've dealt with them in this world.
Also, Zefram Cochrane's gun, which he shot Vulcans with, which feels a bit like a threat.
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