Agony booth
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In the fictional Star Trek universe, an agony booth is a device from the Mirror Universe reality, in use by the Terran Empire. The agony booth is used to punish insubordination of personnel on board an Imperial starship.
Invented in 2155 by MACO Major Malcolm Reed, the Mirror Universe version of Lt. Malcolm Reed, the agony booth is a man-sized glass box that emits waves of nerve wracking pain throughout the subject's body. Unlike more conventional methods of torture - which, after prolonged use, could render the victim 'blind' to pain and unable to feel anything more at all (thus making further torture ineffective) - the Agony Booth continually shifts itself among different nerve clusters of the body, ensuring a maximum possible amount of pain to the victim. Furthermore, the booth can adapt itself for use against any alien species, even those who might be able to resist standard forms of punishment.
Most victims of an agony booth will die before the punishment session is over. The agony booth is warranted for more severe crimes, such as an attempt to assassinate a superior officer or conspiracy to commit other heinous crimes; however, the Empire usually takes a blind eye toward such conduct, and punishment is believed more deserved for those who "get caught". In the Empire, the easiest way to make rank is to kill your superiors.
For lesser punishments, a smaller device called an agonizer is used.
The agony booth was first seen in use in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Mirror, Mirror". Its origins were revealed in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode, "In a Mirror, Darkly".
The Agony Booth is also a infamous internet site chronicaling, summarizing, and generally reviling bad movies from the past, and even has a small catalouge of bad Star Trek episodes. An 'Agonizer' segment exists, used for movies which only had small horrible sections. All of the avatars used by the reviewers are face-shots from Mirror, Mirror, the episode mentioned above.
