Synopsis: Commander Sisko is abducted and taken into the parallel universe in order to complete a mission there of rebelling against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the inner unconscious anima and animus, the terms Carl (C. G.) Jung had for our own internal idealized mates, operate when they come to the attention of the conscious ego. The basic concept is when we fall in love with someone, it is because they remind us of our own inner perfect mate, and we project our ideals upon them.
In “Through the Looking Glass” Commander Benjamin Sisko, from our universe, is abducted from Deep Space Nine by the Miles O’Brien from the mirror universe originally visited by Captain James T. Kirk and his officers in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Mirror, Mirror” and where Major Kira Nerys and Dr. Julian Bashir found themselves in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Crossover.” As it so happens, after Kira and Bashir last were there a Terran rebellion has ensued against the ruling Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Mirror Universe O’Brien specifically brought Sisko back to the mirror universe to try to convince the Mirror Universe Jennifer Sisko to stop working for the alliance and join the rebels.
It is no accident that Mirror Universe O’Brien selected Sisko for the job of trying to convince Mirror Universe Jennifer Sisko to join his cause. Sisko, like Mirror Universe Sisko, would be the holder of her projections of an ideal mate and someone that she would tend to trust. Sisko, even more than Mirror Universe Sisko, lives up to Mirror Universe Jennifer Sisko’s projections and she does as he asks, and joins the Terran rebellion. And when she does, she also is accepting Sisko’s projections of his ideal mate, his anima, onto her. This is much as the character Kamala accepted the anima projection of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the episode “The Perfect Mate” from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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