Episodes ideas explored more than once

[hux]

The thread title is a nice way of saying..."episodes where they rehash an old story"

There's quite a few of them out there and I'm just curious what they are and what ideas they re-explored

For example, TNG: Inner light is about having memories forced onto you as a form of memorial. The Voyager episode "Memorial" literally tells this story again (much less effectively it must be said) I don't dislike "Memorial" (it's ok) but it's clearly a good example of precisely what i'm talking about

Trek repeats itself quite a lot to be sure

The Voyager episodes, "Prototype", "Dreadnought" and "Warhead" all explore similar themes (artificial intelligence becoming a threat) and only just scrape by as stories that aren't entirely identical (just enough difference to get away with it)

So how many examples of this are there and of those examples, what are the good ones and what are the really bad ones

 

[Melakon]

(TOS: The Changeling) + (TOS: The Immunity Syndrome) = Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

 

[Kilana2]

TOS The Naked Time and TNG The Naked Now: both crews acting strangly while being intoxicated.
Two episodes well done and stuck in my memory.

 

[Push The Button]

TOS: By Any Other Name and Wink of An Eye.

 

[Enterprise1701]

TNG - "The Enemy" and ENT - "Dawn". Featuring a crewmember getting stranded on a planet with a hostile alien who they must work with in order to survive.

DS9 - "Children of Time" and ENT - " E". Both have the protagonist crew encounter their descendants, the result of their future selves accidentally being stranded in the past.

 

[Shawnster]

(TOS: The Changeling) + (TOS: The Immunity Syndrome) + TAS: One of Our Planets is Missing = Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

You forgot party of the equation

 

[Melakon]

That's because I don't remember seeing it.

 

[Greg Cox]

Do not mistake ancient computers for gods:

Return of the Archons, The Apple, Spock's Brain, For the World is Hollow . . . .

 

[hux]

So TAS is looking most guilty. I thought TNG and Voyager would be. Does it matter if you're regurgitating stories as long as they're just different enough

TNG: the measure of a man and Voyager: author author are essentially the same story. Is Data property of Starfleet, is the doctors holo-novel his own work (are they sentient subtext)

 

[Orphalesion]

TNG: the measure of a man and Voyager: author author are essentially the same story. Is Data property of Starfleet, is the doctors holo-novel his own work (are they sentient subtext)

And there you see how much presentation and characters can influence a story. Measure of a Man is one f my favorite episodes. Author, Author is one of the Episodes I hate the most in all of Trek.

 

[Makarov]

Insurrection, Journey's End, Ensigns of Command - all variations on settlement relocation. Journey's End is probably my favorite despite being corny beyond belief.

 

[Push The Button]

I mentioned these in another thread, but ENT: Vanishing Point and TNG: The Next Phase, though not exactly the same story, still have a lot in common.

 

[StewMc]

DS9's "Shadowplay" and ENT's "Oasis" have the same basic plot where a colony is made of entirely of holograms sans one or two people. Amusingly, Rene Auberjonois guest starred in "Oasis", and I'm sure there's an interview somewhere where he comments that DS9 did the same story years before.

VOY's "One" and ENT's "Doctor's Orders" are virtually identical: entire crew bar one has to go in to stasis as the ship travels through phenomenon of the week, and said remaining crew member (Seven/Phlox) has to cope with running the ship while experiencing hallucinations.

 

[MacLeod]

What about DSN's "Hard Time" and VOY's "Ex Post Facto" which deal with implanted memories.

 

[Nightdiamond]

And there you see how much presentation and characters can influence a story. Measure of a Man is one f my favorite episodes. Author, Author is one of the Episodes I hate the most in all of Trek.

Measure of a man took time to actually tackle the artificial intelligence debate. It was really sci fi. Data was genuinely in danger.

The Dr.'s case was just flat out obnoxious. It was kind of amusing, but it way too over the top.



Accelerating aging-TOS "The Deadly Years" TNG "Unnatural Selection"

Everybody else is slowed down except us- TOS "Wink of an Eye" TNG "Timescape"

Crewmen disappears, presumed dead, but alive, just invisible --TOS "The Tholian Web" TNG "The Next Phase". Both cases get rescued at the last moment.

Trusted officer betrays captain and Starfleet --TNG "Pre-emptive Strike" DS9 "For The Cause" Both captains are really angry in the end.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

This is probably not exactly what the OP had in mind, but both The Ship and Rock and Shoals have the same structure. Indeed, RAS seems like an attempt to get The Ship right.

 

[Orphalesion]

Measure of a man took time to actually tackle the artificial intelligence debate. It was really sci fi. Data was genuinely in danger.

The Dr.'s case was just flat out obnoxious.

Exactly the way I see it. In Measure of a Man I just wanted to give Data a hug. In Author, Author I just wanted to kick the EMH in the balls.
Of course that is my standard responses to those specific characters so...
But Author, Author was really the most obnoxious EMH episode in the whole of Voyager, if you ask me.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

"Tuvix" (VOY) + "Similitude" (ENT), when is a lifeform's life more or less valuable than another lifeform's life?

EMH (VOY) / Moriarity (TNG) episodes - When is a hologram more than a hologram? At what point does a hologram become sentient?

"I, Borg" (TNG) vs. "Drone" (VOY) - Individual Borg drones who sacrifice themselves or their individuality for the sake of the crew. Both are such good episodes (a favorite in each series) and are different enough.

 

[Isolinear]

Terra Nova (ENT) = Friendship One (VOY): Population of post-apocalyptic world blames Our Heroes for all their troubles and take hostages.

Daedalus (ENT) = Jetrel (VOY): Ill genius wants to atone for past mistakes by rescuing people from death with the transporter.

Precious Cargo (ENT) = Elaan of Troyius (TOS): Ill-mannered princess must be taught some manners.

The Crossing (ENT) = Power Play (TNG): Alien energy orbs take over the bodies of our heroes and are up to no good.

Dawn (ENT) = Enemy Mine. Not a Star Trek episode, but it is a rehashed old story: Our Hero is stranded on a desert planet with a hostile reptilian enemy. In order to survive they have to work together and eventually become friends.

 

[hux]

Dawn (ENT) = Enemy Mine. Not a Star Trek episode, but it is a rehashed old story: Our Hero is stranded on a desert planet with a hostile reptilian enemy. In order to survive they have to work together and eventually become friends.

Don't forget the TNG episode "The Enemy" where Geordi is deserted with a Romulans and they have to work together. I wonder if Barry B. Longyear received any cheques