The Emperor's New Cloak

"The Emperor's New Cloak" is the 162nd episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The 12th episode of the seventh season. It premiered on February 3, 1999. The episode's title is a reference to the Hans Christian Andersen story, The Emperor's New Clothes.

"The Emperor's New Cloak"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
Episode no.Season 7
Episode 12
Directed byLeVar Burton
Written byIra Steven Behr
Hans Beimler
Featured musicDennis McCarthy
Production code562
Original air dateFebruary 3, 1999 (1999-02-03)
Guest appearance(s)

This episode once again features the Mirror Universe, and thus, the first appearance of Mirror Ezri Dax.

The episode premiered to Nielsen ratings of 4.6.[1]

Plot

The mirror-universe Ezri shows up demanding that Quark bring a cloaking device to the Regent Worf in exchange for Grand Nagus Zek, who went to the other side in search of business opportunities. Quark enlists Rom's help in stealing one of those devices from a docked Klingon Bird-of-Prey (specifically, General Martok's Bird of Prey the Rotarran), which they hide by cloaking the cloaking device. When they reach the habitat ring, they avoid questions from a confused Benjamin Sisko and an impatient General Martok when they are noticed idly staring at a bulkhead. They manage to get the device to mirror Ezri, and are forced to transport to the mirror universe when Martok discovers the theft. Upon arrival at the alternate Deep Space 9 (now called Terok Nor), they meet Vic Fontaine, who is not a hologram in the mirror universe.

The three are held captive, as the Rebellion cannot allow the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance to gain such cloaking technology. They are rescued by an alternate version of Brunt, who brings them to the Regent, where it is revealed that the alternate Kira Nerys had planned this all along. Quark and Rom discover that Kira and Ezri are lovers and are then imprisoned.

Zek tells the other two Ferengi that he stole the plans to the multidimensional transporter so he could arrange business agreements with this universe, but the plan backfired when he was caught.

Rom is forced to install the cloaking device on the Regent's ship, but despite his cooperation, he and Quark are still sentenced to die at the hands of mirror Elim Garak. Ezri, however, injects Garak with the poison meant for Quark and Rom; she reveals her motivations to be both a grudge against Garak and regret over the death of Brunt.

The empire attempts to use the cloaking device on the Regent's ship, but it turns out that Rom had sabotaged the device to drain the power grid, and the ship is easily overtaken by the Defiant, forcing Worf to surrender to the Rebels. The Rebels bring the three Ferengi (and Zek's servant, Maihar'du) back to Terok Nor, where a Leeta who never married Rom comes to "debrief" Ezri.

Notes

Continuity

There were five mirror universe episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; "Crossover", "Through the Looking Glass", "Shattered Mirror", "Resurrection", and "The Emperor’s New Cloak".[3]

This episode utilizes a Star Trek story element introduced in the original series episode "Mirror, Mirror"[4] which aired on October 6, 1967.

Reception

In 2017, SyFy ranked this the sixth best mirror universe episode of Star Trek, noting that this is focused on Quark and Rom.[5]

gollark: If I'm killed, the emergency contingency systems will wake up a few billion mgollarks to take my place.
gollark: ↑ Macron interpreter (canonical)
gollark: ```pythoni = 0while True: for macron_char in input(): if macron_char in "<>+-.,[]": globals()[f"macro{i}"] = lambda x: x i += 1```
gollark: Observe.
gollark: I'm the only one making Macron here.

References
  1. http://users.telenet.be/WebTrek/Ds9/Ratings/ratings7.html
  2. DeCandido, Keith (January 7, 2015). "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch: "The Emperor's New Cloak"". Tor.com. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  3. "Star Trek: A Guide to All the Mirror Universe Episodes". Den of Geek. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  4. https://tv.avclub.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-crossover-the-collaborat-1798173245]
  5. Granshaw, Lisa (2017-01-30). "Ranking every mirror universe episode of Star Trek". SYFY WIRE. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
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