{"id":39277,"date":"2024-08-09T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/?p=39277"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T21:27:08","slug":"the-ark-review-and-analysis-the-other-you-is-absolutely-awesome-alternate-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/09\/the-ark-review-and-analysis-the-other-you-is-absolutely-awesome-alternate-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ark Review and Analysis – The Other You is Absolutely Awesome Alternate Reality!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome Back The Ark<\/a> fans,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This second season continues with this exciting episode as another disaster befalls our heroes who cannot seem to catch as break! The fabulous fourth episode of season 2 is one of our favorites since it deals with an alternate reality likely caused by a quantum entanglement as a result of an unstable wormhole when Ark-1 was exiting Faster Than Light (FTL) travel at the end of previous episode \u201cAnomaly<\/a>\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This excellent episode written by Madeline Hendricks Lewen<\/a> is fantastic not only because the writer does a superb job, but because the story in this superb episode provides the main cast an opportunity to portray alternate versions of themselves that highlights their awesome acting talent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In that last sequence of the previous episode, Lt. James Brice (Richard Fleeshman<\/a>) disappeared after Ark-1 had been traveling to Ark-3 to obtain spare part to fully repair the FTL drive. Due to damage suffered at Proxima B, Ark-1 needed parts for their longer journey to rejoin the remnants of humanity now headed to a new life at the Trappist 1D solar system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In modern science fiction television, the 1967 Star Trek<\/a> original series episode \u201cMirror, Mirror<\/a>\u201d set the stage for alternate reality versions of the main characters. Viewers will recall that the Enterprise was sent to an alternate reality where it is in the service of a brutal evil Empire with a equally barbaric crew. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In \u201cMirror, Mirror<\/a>\u201d the Enterprise encountered an ion storm sending four crew members including Captain Kirk (William Shatner<\/a>) to an alternative reality universe after they were negotiating with an alien race for Dilithium crystals that are the warp drive energy source for the Federation Starship fleet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Similarly, the fabulous Fringe<\/a> series (2008-2013), and as depicted in many other science fiction series, viewers know about an alternate version of characters between universes, even observing both versions of the Olivia Dunham character in many episodes of this beloved science fiction series. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fringe<\/a> fans will recall that a murdered Alternate Inspector Broyles (Lance Reddick<\/a>) arrived in the \u201cprime universe\u201d when his dead body was transferred from the \u201calternate universe\u201d as an exchange with Alt Livia (Anna Torv<\/a>) who had been on a spy mission in our universe after she was returning to her own alternate universe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Other You:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As mentioned above, the episode wonderfully written by Madeline Hendricks Lewen<\/a>, directed by Milan Todorovic<\/a> begins where we left off with Lt. James Brice disappearing right in front of Captain Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke<\/a>), Lt. Spencer Lane (Reece Ritchie<\/a>), Eva Markovic (Tiana Upcheva<\/a>), Sasha Novak (Milos Cvetkovic<\/a>), and Jelena Griff (Tamara Radovanic<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

However, what actually happened is that Ark-1 and an alternate universe version were exiting FTL at the exact same time, causing the quantum entanglement that traps the two ships in a starless void. As for the vanishing of Lt. Brice, that is precisely where this fascinating fourth episode of season two begins with a number of events that delighted the viewers at an X party the night of the broadcast!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Alicia Nevins (Stacey Read<\/a>) runs in to the Ark-1 FTL engine control room to alert everyone that something \u201cweird\u201d<\/em> is happening. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ship did not drop out of FTL near Ark-3 where they were supposed to. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alicia also notes the weirdness is further accentuated in that there are no stars that are visible outside Ark-1 because they are in a starless black void!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We are then apparently with Cat Brandice (Christina Wolfe<\/a>) who had died during the first episode of the season in \u201cFailed Experiment<\/a>\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As science fiction admirers know, characters come back to life in SciFi series! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I for one was happy to see Cat again! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

However, viewers were at first left scratching their heads over this development until the reason for her apparent survival becomes clear.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We witness Cat getting out of a stasis pod calling for \u201cWill\u201d. Cat is referring to her lover William Trust (Paul Leonard Murray<\/a>). We then see Cat walking down a hallway where she sees a flabbergasted William Trust and runs to hug him. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Captain Garnet and the prime reality crew soon learn that Cat is actually a duplicate from another Ark-1 in an alternate reality timeline. We learn that Alternate Cat must have switched places with Lt. Brice during the quantum entanglement exchange with the alternate universe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The scene switches back to the Ark-1 control room where Captain Garnet, Eva, Lt. Spencer and Alicia are struggling to comprehend what has transpired and why they cannot see any stars. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Captain Garnet suspects that the ships cameras are not working while Alicia says they are in a black \u201cvoid\u201d. Garnet, Spencer and Alicia run to Captain Garnets room which has exterior viewing windows. When they arrive they confirm that there are in fact no stars!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Security Chief Felix Strickland (Pavle Jerinic<\/a>) and Kimi Joma (D\u00edana Bermudez<\/a>), former head of Ark-15 security now serving with Felix on Ark-1 as a security officer, urgently call with an urgent message to meet them in the mess hall. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sure enough, William Trust and Cat are sitting at a table together. <\/span><\/span>To make matter stranger, Cat refers to Lt. Spencer as Commander Spencer, and Cat, an American in the prime universe, now has a decidedly delightful British accent proving she is not the same Cat who was killed in “Failed Experiment<\/a>“.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Events continue to bear out that Cat is from another alternate universe when she states that William Trust is her husband and that James Brice died in her universe some ten years ago when he thwarted a terrorist attack on the lunar colony that no one survived, including Lt. Spencer\u2019s father. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lt. Spencer demands answers believing that Cat is not who she claims to be. Captain Garnet on the other hand, realizes that something odd has happened and that they must investigate to get the answers they require to explain this alternate reality manifestation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Prime universe genius Alicia provides a credible explanation that Ark-1 never dropped out of FTL and became quantum entangled between the versions of reality that Cat and our heroes are experiencing. Felix if such a phenomena is possible. William Trust confirms that it is not only possible, but is the only logical explanation for what has happened. Alicia is asked by Captain Garnet how they can be \u201cquantum untangled\u201d. Alicia admits that she does not know, but will work on the problem.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We make a stop in the medical bay where Dr. Sanjivni Kabir (Shalini Peiris<\/a>) is helping Dr. Marsh (Jadran Malkovich<\/a>) diagnose patients much to his annoyance. Kabir says she is bored while Marsh says she must get more rest before she can return to duty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We shift to Kelly, who although locked up, is hearing voices, including Lt. Brice trapped in the alternate universe. Kelly is released by Captain Garnet, Fleix and Kimi who leads them to a wall where she says the voices of William Trust and Lt. Brice are emanating from, Alt William questioning Lt, Brice asking who he is since he died a decade ago in their universe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The episode focuses on the Ark-1 in the prime universe is about finding a solution to fixing why Lt. Brice and Cat switched universe realities. There are many enjoyable bits by Alt Cat who goes by her full name of Catrina and sports a British accent. The crew are dealing with the Kelly who Alt Cat is able to figure out since artificially enhanced humans, called \u201cPost Humans\u201d in this episode, were her specialty in the alternate universe. Alt Cat decides to help Kelly which will be revealed at the end of the episode. <\/span><\/span>We also learn that Helena (Mercedes De La Cruz<\/a>) was a manipulative bitch in both realities, and that William Trust is a good person in the alternate reality. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Prime universe Alicia shares that the only way to break the linkage between the two realities is to move Ark-1 to physically un-entangle the two versions of Ark-1.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We then are in the alternate universe with a stark naked Lt. Brice and the alt Ark-1 crew members who are shocked to see him. Not the naked part, but that in their alternate reality Brice died saving the lunar colony from an attack by Eastern Alliance soldiers. Alt Eva then smacks prime Lt Brice for being naked while making provocative statements as Alt Sasha enters the FTL control room.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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