Forum:Halkan Prediction of Galactic Revolt

The ending of "Mirror, Mirror" has always bothered me because Kirk Prime's inquiry to Mirror Spock regarding the "Halkan prediction of galactic revolt" seems to come out of nowhere. In the aired episode, there is no dialogue between Kirk Prime and Mirror Tharn about any such subject; thus, there was no conversation for Mirror Spock to have witnessed between them and, therefore, no reason why he later should be able to answer "approximately 240 years" when Kirk Prime asks him. I checked James Blish's adaptation of the episode in "Star Trek 3" because I know he often worked from early drafts of the shooting scripts. After Tharn defies Kirk Prime's demand for dilithium crystals by saying, "To preserve what we are," his dialogue continues: "Yes. Perhaps someday your slave planets will all defy you, as we have done. When that comes, how will your starships be able to control a whole galaxy?" Do you know if these lines made it into the final shooting script, but were cut for time? This is the only link I can find to Kirk Prime's inquiry about the "Halkan prediction of galactic revolt." Thanks. LordEdzo (talk) 03:34, September 26, 2014 (UTC)LordEdzo