#Christopher pike mind meld spock series

It was a field day for the actors, in particular for Leonard Nimoy, whose Spock, as McCoy notes, has an “easy way” of fitting into the barbaric parallel universe. Viewers (and TOS’s long-suffering, penny-pinching producer Robert Justman) got two sets of Enterprise characters for the price of one, and the foolproof suspense device of having Kirk and his fellow officers having to lie, cheat and steal their way through an hour of television with death the clear result of any false move on their part. Written by Jerome Bixby, the story throws Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura into a parallel universe where the Enterprise is part of the “Terran Empire” and runs like a fascistic pirate ship where officers advance in rank by murdering their superiors.

#Christopher pike mind meld spock series

The Star Trek original series episode “Mirror, Mirror” is still one of the most wildly entertaining and iconic in the show’s history, one that spawned numerous follow-ups on Deep Space Nine and Enterprise as well as parodies and homages in other media (we owe it for giving us an evil, goateed David Hasselhoff on an episode of Knight Rider, for example). Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner in “Mirror, Mirror”