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.

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 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 (and then shot by Bashir).

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 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. Rom then expresses his dislike of the alternate universe.

Canon Contradiction

In the earlier DS9 episode, "Through the Looking Glass," multiple Cardassian ships decloak in front of Sisko and Smiley and capture them. However, in "The Emperor's New Cloak," it is repeatedly stated that the Alliance does not possess cloaking technology.

Notes

This episode was dedicated to the memory of the recently deceased Jerome Bixby, who wrote the original Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror" that introduced the "Mirror Universe" featured in this and several other episodes of the many Star Trek series.

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 Tegan.

External links

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The Original Series	"Mirror, Mirror"
Deep Space Nine	"Crossover" "Through the Looking Glass" "Shattered Mirror" "Resurrection" "The Emperor's New Cloak"
Enterprise	"In a Mirror, Darkly"
Discovery	"Despite Yourself" "The Wolf Inside" "Vaulting Ambition" "What's Past Is Prologue" "Terra Firma"
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Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Season 1	"Emissary" "Past Prologue" "A Man Alone" "Babel" "Captive Pursuit" "Q-Less" "Dax" "The Passenger" "Move Along Home" "The Nagus" "Vortex" "Battle Lines" "The Storyteller" "Progress" "If Wishes Were Horses" "The Forsaken" "Dramatis Personae" "Duet" "In the Hands of the Prophets"
Season 2	"The Homecoming" "The Circle" "The Siege" "Invasive Procedures" "Cardassians" "Melora" "Rules of Acquisition" "Necessary Evil" "Second Sight" "Sanctuary" "Rivals" "The Alternate" "Armageddon Game" "Whispers" "Paradise" "Shadowplay" "Playing God" "Profit and Loss" "Blood Oath" "The Maquis, Part I" "The Maquis, Part II" "The Wire" "Crossover" "The Collaborator" "Tribunal" "The Jem'Hadar"
Season 3	"The Search" "The House of Quark" "Equilibrium" "Second Skin" "The Abandoned" "Civil Defense" "Meridian" "Defiant" "Fascination" "Past Tense, Part I" "Past Tense, Part II" "Life Support" "Heart of Stone" "Destiny" "Prophet Motive" "Visionary" "Distant Voices" "Through the Looking Glass" "Improbable Cause" "The Die Is Cast" "Explorers" "Family Business" "Shakaar" "Facets" "The Adversary"
Season 4	"The Way of the Warrior" "The Visitor" "Hippocratic Oath" "Indiscretion" "Rejoined" "Starship Down" "Little Green Men" "The Sword of Kahless" "Our Man Bashir" "Homefront" "Paradise Lost" "Crossfire" "Return to Grace" "Sons of Mogh" "Bar Association" "Accession" "Rules of Engagement" "Hard Time" "Shattered Mirror" "The Muse" "For the Cause" "To the Death" "The Quickening" "Body Parts" "Broken Link"
Season 5	"Apocalypse Rising" "The Ship" "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" "...Nor the Battle to the Strong" "The Assignment" "Trials and Tribble-ations" "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." "Things Past" "The Ascent" "Rapture" "The Darkness and the Light" "The Begotten" "For the Uniform" "In Purgatory's Shadow" "By Inferno's Light" "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" "A Simple Investigation" "Business as Usual" "Ties of Blood and Water" "Ferengi Love Songs" "Soldiers of the Empire" "Children of Time" "Blaze of Glory" "Empok Nor" "In the Cards" "Call to Arms"
Season 6	"A Time to Stand" "Rocks and Shoals" "Sons and Daughters" "Behind the Lines" "Favor the Bold" "Sacrifice of Angels" "You Are Cordially Invited" "Resurrection" "Statistical Probabilities" "The Magnificent Ferengi" "Waltz" "Who Mourns for Morn?" "Far Beyond the Stars" "One Little Ship" "Honor Among Thieves" "Change of Heart" "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" "Inquisition" "In the Pale Moonlight" "His Way" "The Reckoning" "Valiant" "Profit and Lace" "Time's Orphan" "The Sound of Her Voice" "Tears of the Prophets"
Season 7	"Image in the Sand" "Shadows and Symbols" "Afterimage" "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" "Chrysalis" "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" "Once More unto the Breach" "The Siege of AR-558" "Covenant" "It's Only a Paper Moon" "Prodigal Daughter" "The Emperor's New Cloak" "Field of Fire" "Chimera" "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang" "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" "Penumbra" "'Til Death Do Us Part" "Strange Bedfellows" "The Changing Face of Evil" "When It Rains…" "Tacking into the Wind" "Extreme Measures" "The Dogs of War" "What You Leave Behind"

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Settings	Runabout (spacecraft) Deep Space Nine (space station) USS Defiant (spaceship) Bajor (planet) Holosuites Bird of Prey (spaceship) Mirror Universe
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