#unpopularopinion am I the only one who thinks that "Mirror, Mirror" from the original Star Trek was maybe a disastrous mistake? Like, the episode itself is probably one of the better TOS eps; it's not bad. But boy oh boy did it open the door to a thousand unwanted followups and imitators. Mirror universes are up there with time travel among the worst-abused devices for plot generation. It's not the AU itself that's necessarily the problem...ok, sometimes the AU _is_ the problem, and Trek's AU of itself is to Star Trek what Underfell is to Undertale, almost comically grimdark, or wannabe grimdark.

@kara_dreamer unrelatedly:
somehow my friends mistook "The Enemy Within" as the original mirror universe ep (misread?? idk how) and so we ended up watching it instead and hot DAMN the enemy within is a TRASH episode

@er1n oh, yeah, that one's really hard to defend on any level except maybe as a vehicle for Shatner's rich, fruity style of acting (which I genuinely enjoy in small doses)