The Emperor’s New Cloak

This Story: Season 7 Episode 12 (production code 562)
DS9 Overall: Episode 162
Trek Overall: Story 419, Episode 443
Airdate: 11 Jan 1999
Writer: Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
Director: LeVar Burton

Notes

• The episode is dedicated to Jerome Bixby.  Bixby wrote the original “Mirror, Mirror” episode back in the 60’s, and had died shortly before this episode aired.
• The final mirror universe story (of five) in Deep Space Nine.  The next time we revisit the Mirror Universe was in the Enterprise Season 4 two parter “In a Mirror Darkly“.  As of Oct 2025, all future Mirror universe stories in all other series take place in the past, this DS9 ep is the furthest forward in the mirror timeline.
• The tenth and final Deep Space Nine episode directed by LeVar Burton.  It was also his second mirror universe episode.
• The final episodes for Mirror Garak, Mirror Vic (of which this was also his first episode), as well as Mirror Brunt.
• The second time we had a same sex (female) kiss on the series – the first being “Rejoined“.
• While technically a mirror universe story, it was created more as a Quark/Rom story, as the upcoming deep dive in the war and the end of the series wouldn’t really allow for a Ferengi heavy story.

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