YMMV / Star Trek: Enterprise S04E18 "In a Mirror, Darkly"

• Awesome Music:
  • The alternate opening music, especially for everyone who despised the infamous "Faith of the Heart".
  • Mirror Archer's leitmotif, which consists largely of Ominous Latin Chanting.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: You might say Mirror Cochrane gave the visitors to Bozeman, Montana a Vulcan "hello."
• Magnificent Bitch: The Mirror Universe version of Hoshi Sato stands in stark contrast to her reserved Main Universe version as a conniving Social Climber who seduces men in the Terran Military who can advance her career while being no less important to the mission for her linguistic skills in communicating with hostile aliens. Hoshi supports Archer's mission to recover the Defiant from the Tholians and helps him to maintain control over the ship, even exposing a plot by T'Pol and other alien members of the crew in time to stop the uprising dead in its tracks. Seducing Archer's bodyguard Mayweather and tricking Archer into downing a poisoned drink while his guard is down, Hoshi emerges the victor out of the continual backstabbing and uses the threat of the Defiant's advanced weapons systems to declare herself Empress of the Terran Empire.
• Nightmare Fuel: Mirror Archer is a bullying brute like most Mirror Universe counterpart characters, but he's also a lot less mentally stable with various nervous twitches and eventually he starts hallucinating about his Main Universe counterpart mocking him for not being as successful as he. The guy's not just evil, but insane and evil. If he actually would have taken over the Terran Empire, it's not hard to see how he would become a new Caligula.
• Padding: Cool as it is, the whole sequence with the Gorn is pretty pointless to the story. Apparently it was only included because the writers had been wanting to bring back the Gorn for a long time, and this episode finally gave them a chance to do so without violating continuity.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: While the remastered TOS episodes provided a taste, we finally get to see what a Constitution-class starship is capable of in combat.