The Emperor's New Cloak

ST episode
name = The Emperor's New Cloak


series = DS9
ep_num = 160
prod_num = 562
date = February 3, 1999
writer = Ira Steven Behr
Hans Beimler

director = LeVar Burton
stardate =unknown
year = 2375
prev = Prodigal Daughter
next = Field of Fire

"The Emperor's New Cloak" is an episode of "".

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jerome Bixby. The title is an allusion to Hans Christian Andersen's story, "The Emperor's New Clothes". The episode is notable for including one of the first homosexual relationships depicted in the series, between the alternate universe equivalents of Kira Nerys and Ezri Dax.

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, 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 noticed them idly staring at a bulkhead. They managed to get the device to mirror Ezri, and are forced to transport to the mirror universe due to Martok finding out and was angry at them. Upon arrival at the alternate Deep Space 9 (now called Terok Nor), they meet Vic Fontaine, who apparently, wasn't a hologram and was killed a few seconds later and they were captured by Terran Rebellion forces.

The three were held captive, as the Rebellion cannot allow the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance to gain such a 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 and she and Ezri are lovers. Quark and Rom are then imprisoned.

Zek tells the two Ferengi that he stole the plans to the multidimensional transporter so he could put business agreements with this universe. But he got caught.

After Rom is forced to install the cloaking device on the Regent's ship, instead of being released, they are to be killed by mirror Elim Garak. Luckily, while trying to stall and having fought Garak, Ezri saves them by injecting the poison into Garak meant for them. She had developed a conscience after Nerys killed Brunt.

It is revealed that Rom had sabotaged the cloaking device to bring down the Regent's ship's power grid, enabling it to be caught by a pursuing "Defiant". Worf is then forced 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. Rom then expresses his dislike of the alternate universe.

External links

* [http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/DS9/episode/104465.html Episode information from STARTREK.COM]