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Crossover ranks 0 out of all 118,440 episodes (of all shows) on TV.com.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans have written a total of 1 reviews of Crossover.

Air Date

Sunday May 15, 1994

Production Code

443

Episode Summary

Stardate: 47879.2

An accident, which occurs while traveling through the wormhole, leaves Kira and Bashir stranded in an alternate universe where humans are slaves.

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    8.5 Great

    The first, and best, Mirror Universe episode. hide show

    Unlike almost every other facet of the show, DS9's mirror universe episodes got worse during the series' run and were pretty weak at the end. But this first episode is exceptionally good - it goes beyond the mere gimmick of "similar but different" to offer something genuinely substantial.

    There's humor here - Bashir hitting on Kira, Mirror Garak admiring tailoring, Odo exploding. And the actors (particularly Nana Visitor) have great fun playing against type.

    But really, it's the climax at the party, where Smiley O'Brien gives his impassioned speech, that makes the episode. That's what I meant when I said there was substance here. Colm Meaney rocks.
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  • The Intendant, Smiley and the mirror Garak are the only mirror universe characters to appear in all of the mirror universe episodes that take place on their side of the wormhole. []
  • This episode marks the first appearance of the mirror universe on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. []
  • Continuity: When Kira and Bashir emerged from the wormhole in the mirror universe, it took them three hours to reach the station as it orbited Bajor. As they escaped the station and headed home, they reached the wormhole in seconds. []
  • Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) does not appear in this episode. []
  • The writers originally considered having Michael Dorn appear as the mirror Worf, who would have been one of the mirror Kira's many thugs. The mirror Worf would later be seen in Shattered Mirror and The Emperor's New Cloak (with a much higher status). []
  • The events in this episode are based on the Original Series episode Mirror, Mirror. []
  • Kira: (learning Mirror Sisko is a freebooter for the Intendant) And why do you deserve this special treatment?
    Mirror Sisko: I suppose because I amuse her, and she's not easily amused. And it seems that you amuse her, too. []
  • Mirror Garak: (as Quark is dragged away for execution) I shall miss him. He always let me win at Dabo. []
  • Smiley O'Brien: (to the Intendant) This man is a doctor where he comes from. And there's an O'Brien there, just like me... Except he's some kind of high-up chief of operations. And they're Terrans. Can you believe that? Maybe it's a fairy tale he made up, but it started me thinking how each of us might have turned out, had history been just a little different. I wanted him to take me with him because, whatever it's like where he's from, it's gotta be better than this. There's got to be something better than this. []
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  • Major Kira: Through the looking glass, Commander.

    Through The Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There is an 1871 children's novel by Lewis Carroll. It is nominally a sequel to Carroll's previous work, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, although there is little by way of connection. In the story, Alice passes through a mirror and into a world that is in many ways the opposite of her own, much as Kira and Bashir do when their damaged runabout passes through the wormhole. []
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