How did the Tantalus Field device get into McCoy’s office?!? :dubious: 
Do you mean why does the Tantalus Field prop from “By Any Other Name” appear in this episode?
If so, I assume for budgetary reasons.
If not, then I ask for more context.
Probably the same way that the Romulan cloaking device ended up being made of parts of Nomad combined with the globe that held Sargon’s consciousness.
That is, a wizard did it.
Yep, when you mainly use physical props and sets, you really don’t want them to be single-use.
Why wouldn’t this merit its own thread? It’s a question about a specific Star Trek episode, and I’m sure terentii is well aware of the existence of the other thread.
Or how the salt vampire ended up in Trelaine’s home…
That’s the episode with Kirk’s patented “Flying Butt Block”.
“Mirror, Mirror,” not “By Any Other Name.”
Budgetary reasons is the obvious explanation. But you gotta admit, it’s a weird thing to have in a doctor’s office.
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“Doctor, this crewman’s been infected with an unknown disease that could kill everyone on the ship!”
“Uhhhhh … just give me a minute alone, Nurse. I need to … uhm … consult some reference materials in my office. Yes, that’s it! Consult. Reference materials.”*
I’d swear I noticed the same thing in Kirk’s quarters earlier in the episode. What, that thing was all over the ship?!?
How did I ever miss this before? :smack:
Yes, of course. I stand corrected.
Well, we have identical-looking people in each universe fulfilling different functions, why not identical-looking machines? The premise is already pretty shaky, suggesting as it does some kind of “fate” element, i.e. no matter what past event caused that universe’s history to diverge from the more familiar “mainstream” one, it was somehow inevitable that Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Uhura and Marlena Moreau would all be assigned to a starship named Enterprise which itself would be assigned at a particular time to a mission to a planet occupied by a race known as the Halkans. Was “mainstream” Kirk chosen by Starfleet Command to be the captain of the USS *
Enterprise*, or was their decision forced because “mirror” Kirk seized command of the ISS Enterprise? Or did the mirror-Kirk seize power because his counterpart had been assigned?
I figured that the exchange required finding two very similar universes out of all the quadrillions of universes that exist. No fate required - it’s just that an exchange will only happen between universes that happen to have an Enterprise, a Kirk, a Spock, a Scotty, an Uhura, etc. transporting from Halkan at the same time.