legaleagle53

Actually, no. The MU counterpart to the Federation was the defunct Terran Empire that was introduced in the original series episode "Mirror, Mirror" and the mid-22nd-Century origin of which was revealed in the two-part Enterprise episode "Through a Glass, Darkly." As Intendent Kira explained, Kirk's attempt to encourage humanitarian reforms in the Empire of his time backfired spectacularly because the reforms so badly weakened the Empire that by the Mirror 24th Century it was easy for the Alliance to destroy it. Thus, there is no true MU counterpart to the Federation by the time that Kira and O'Brien encounter that Universe; it had already ceased to exist long before then, and the human rebels are all that are left of it.

Eww, Kevin again? Remind me to watch the show with the sound muted!

I'll have to see whether I can hunt the show up on Hulu. I don't have the DVDs (and even if I did, my DVD player doesn't work anymore), nor do I have Netflix. Of course, I've watched all the episodes so often after growing up with the show (I'm just a few years older than Erin Murphy) that I can probably discuss them all from memory, if nothing else! :)

Kevin Hart annoyed the hell out of me with his constant yelling out of the scores. It was cute the first time everyone was trying to channel Len, but by about the third time Kevin did it, I wanted to smack the living daylights out of him. And Alfonso? That "Dr. Evil" impression got old after about the second time you did it. I got it -- your theme is taken from Austin Powers. No need to beat me over the head with it. I'm really glad to see Lea and Artem are still in this. Artem's got the goods to keep delivering great routines that challenge and showcase Lea's talent, and I would like to see them make the finals, that's for sure. It's just a pity that she's doing the show a year shy of October 2015 -- but I have to say, she looks better in 2014 than her character did in 2015I Is it this version of DWTS that is having the viewers choose the music for the dances in two weeks? Yeah, THAT'S going to work out well. Ugh!

This was the first of several episodes to explore the Mirror Universe (first introduced in the classic TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror"), and it's one of the best in the entire run of the show, in my opinion. Not only do we get to learn the consequences of Kirk's attempt to get Mirror Spock to overthrow the dominant Human regime of his day (the ensuing revolution so weakened humanity that the Klingons and Bajorans were able to conquer them without so much as breathing hard, which ), but we also got to see a bitchy, quasi-bisexual dominatrix version of Kira that Nana Visitor must have had a ball playing. Fun times, I tell you!

Very fitting, too, since the show just celebrated its 50th anniversary. I'm in.

Try keeping up with four or five versions at the same time and see how easy it is! :-P

OK, Aussies, exactly who's who among this year's A- I mean, D-listers?

Carmelo's still as sexy as ever, I see!

Nice way to start off the new series, I thought. Kym is really good as a judge here (but I can't help thinking about how much I miss her on our version, even if by coming back here, she's really just gone back to her roots). I thought the dances were all great, except for the Carnation guy -- that was just painful to watch. But what was up with Todd and that one Foxtrot that he said broke the rules? I didn't see any problems with it; I thought there was plenty of Foxtrot content, and while it would have gotten dinged for the lifts in the States, as far as the overall choreography was concerned, I've seen Derek Hough and Mark Ballas get away with far worse crimes against the dances than what I saw here. So what exactly was Todd's beef that caused him to humiliate a newbie pro like that?

Dan doesn't bother me as host (although I think he tries a little too hard to be the Australian Tom Bergeron, and it doesn't quite work), but I can see why everyone thought Sonia Krueger was perfect for the job of co-hostess. The woman who replaced her seems rather blah by comparison.

Kym, I know, and Todd, I know (his reputation as Australia's answer to the worst of Len Goodman and Craig Revel Horwood combined is known even in the States), and I know Helen as the "dirty old lady," but who's Adam? He's cute, and he seems to know a thing or two about dancing, but what's his background? And is it just me, or has Kym's native accent come back in full force now that she's back at home?

Especially a certain sect of Evil Regals (you know the ones I'm talking about!). This episode will pop up on Hulu later in the week, right? That's the only way I'm going to be able to watch it, since I no longer have cable and rabbit ears only bring in a religious station that is so over-the-top that it would make even the Religious Right cringe.

The thing is, though, that the "replacement" was actually the original choice for the role. The only reason Dick Sargent didn't play the part from the first year is that he was under contract elsewhere at the time. Had he been available then, Dick York would never have had a shot at the role.

Better to get it out of the way now, I suppose. Just PLEASE, Britain, be kind to Tristan and let him stay just a little while. I don't expect him to win, but getting him to at least the halfway mark would be such a nice gesture.

Lovely. Tristan's partner is nothing more than the decidedly less sexy version of Pamela Anderson -- just what he needed. Just what the hell did he do to piss off the franchise on TWO continents and/or the heavens that he seems to be cursed when it comes to this show and its various incarnations? Maybe he should have tried out for the Australian, German, French, Italian, or Austrian versions instead.

Yeah, I'd like to know who in this franchise apparently hates Tristan such that he gets hosed like this on two different continents now. So they're both Irish -- that joke about their accents is already old and tired!

I think the reason that Tristan got Jenny is that they're both Irish, and the producers must have thought it would be fun to see two natives of Eire play off each other.

And I in turn would love to have some of their pros over here, especially Ian Waite, Karen Hardy, and James Jordan. James would be a hoot as a judge -- I've been watching him on Celebrity Big Brother (UK), and he does NOT hold back or take prisoners. I think he'd make a few pros' heads explode!

And believe me, they're all PISSED that we "stole" him from them!

My best memories of Joan were from early in her career, right about the time she had Melissa (does anyone remember the hilarious book she wrote about her experiences with pregnancy, childbirth, and the raising of a toddler -- "Having a Baby Can Be a Scream"?). Like Phyllis Diller, she really was to me always at her funniest when she was laughing at herself and her life (well, and when she was mercilessly mocking Heidi Abromowitz -- that tramp!). RIP, Ms. Rivers.

I see what you did there, walnutqueen!

While that's a technically correct use of the objective case (the example in the post to which you were responding, however, wasn't), it still violates another rule of grammar that dictates that whenever a form of "I" is used as part of a compound subject or object, it always comes last in the subjective or objective phrase ("good enough for Bobby McGee and me").

I disagree. As I've noted before, this version is the only one in the entire franchise that hasn't had four judges until now, and those other versions have done just fine. They simply stagger the judges so that only two at any one time give an opinion on the dances, and having four judges results in a far more balanced critique between technique (the objective factor) and "feeling" (the subjective factor on which Derek overrelies, in my opinion). It might do Derek some good to have a fourth judge who will actually make him stick to the rules for a change, so even though it's Julianne (ugh), I say bring on the fourth judge!