Lazarus was too consumed in destroying the alternate version of himself - until he wasn’t. Like Lazarus, they've learned to embrace the duality of their favorite franchise, even if it means locking themselves in endless combat with the parts of it they didn’t enjoy as much as others. They know that being a Trekkie sometimes means taking the drab with the exciting and the convoluted with the complex. That being said, many individual Star Trek fans enjoy it on their own. It’s not the first to receive harsh criticism, but it’s one of the few that has never enjoyed a renaissance of changed hearts (like, for example, season 2, episode 7, “Cat’s Paw”). Many fans felt that the episode didn't make sense, lacked substance, and was just boring.
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In fact, it’s more likely to pop up when the focus is on the worst episodes the series had to offer. “The Alternative Factor” will probably never appear on any mainstream list discussing the best episodes of The Original Series. From series to series, the franchise takes chances on off-the-cuff episodes that either stick the landing or fumble the plot entirely. Star Trek has a long history of boldly going where no other show has gone before. It just left them a little traumatized and a lot more grateful for their original universe.
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The Original Series later introduced the mirror verse in season 2, episode 4, “Mirror, Mirror.” It was full of drama and backstabbing, but at no point did the act of entering it drive anyone toward hysteria. Charlene Masters (Janet MacLachlan) while trying to steal dilithium crystals. It left him stubbornly making increasingly dumb choices and taking unnecessarily drastic actions, like attacking Lt. Meanwhile, merely knowing about the alternate universe drove Lazarus to paranoid delusions that anti-Lazarus would bring about the destruction of his entire world. The biggest difference seems to be that the mirror verse can exist without disrupting the original timeline. Yet, apparently, the alternate universe and the mirror verse are two totally different concepts. After all, it had a character discover a different version of themselves while exploring a world both the same as their own, but drastically different at the same time.
It would be easy to assume that the ‘Lazarus vs Anti-Lazarus’ situation was a precursor to the mirror verse. “Is it such a large price to pay the safety of two universes?” “ at each other’s throats throughout time.” They would be forever stuck in conflict, or as Captain Kirk puts it: Fortunately, Lazarus eventually understood that stopping anti-Lazarus meant trapping them both in the alternative timeline.
They were locked in a battle of cosmic proportions, and it was literally tearing the galaxy apart. He was constantly shifting between his level-headed self and the hothead anti-Lazarus unknowingly sharing his body. It did, however, shed light on why Lazarus seemed to shift wildly between emotions while talking to everyone from Captain Kirk to Dr. Even in the episode itself, the reasoning behind the strange phenomenon was little more than sci-fi mumbo jumbo. The Original Series never explored this concept further. Lazarus turned out to be a scientist fighting an alternative version of himself he met while using an alternative warp to explore an alternative universe. “The Alternative Factor” isn’t exactly one of the saddest episodes of Star Trek, but the implications of its ending were kind of depressing. RELATED: Underrated Star Trek: The Original Series Episodes Starfleet Versus the Unknown Spock (Leonard Nimoy) explained that each time it was like the galaxy itself was on the verge of “winking out.” Even more odd? The previously uninhabited planet they’d been studying suddenly had a human on its surface. It left Captain Kirk (William Shatner) in an uncharacteristic state of panic as he demanded answers from his First Officer. They were completing a scientific survey of an uncharted planet in season 1, episode 27, “The Alternative Factor” when something very powerful rocked the ship two times. The crew had no idea that he was locked in a battle of epic proportions - with himself. However, he also stood out by being uniquely named after a major figure in the Christian Bible. He initially just seemed like a disturbed man with a weird little beard.
Yet, none of this was apparent when the Enterprise crew first encountered Lazarus in Star Trek: The Original Series. Lazarus (Robert Brown) was a troubled Star Trek character whose desperate need to save the galaxy unwittingly turned him into an enemy that only his alternative counterpart could defeat.
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