"In a Mirror, Darkly" (season four, episodes eighteen & nineteen; production codes: 418 & 419; 22 April 2005 & 29 April 2005): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: We take a slight detour from our rewatch of The Original Series with the Enterprise duology, "In a Mirror, Darkly," which is, almost four decades later, a direct sequel to "The Tholian Web." In "The Tholian Web," the U.S.S. Defiant NCC-1764, a sister ship to the Enterprise NCC-1701, is lost in a dimensional interphase. "In a Mirror, Darkly" reveals that the alternate dimension to which the Defiant disappeared is the Mirror Universe, & not only was the Defiant displaced dimensionally, but also temporally, traveling back from the 2260s to the 2150s.
"In a Mirror, Darkly" holds the distinction of being the only episodes set entirely in the Mirror Universe, with no living beings phasing between the universes, only the Defiant. The producers went so far as to give these two episodes an alternate opening title sequence. Brilliant!
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