Episodes ideas explored more than once

[Ghrakh]

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.

ENT "Singularity" fits with those I think.

 

[Orphalesion]

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.

Charlie X= It's a Good Life (the classic twilight zone episode). Sociopathic child/teen with god-like powers mutilates people and sends them "away".

 

[Isolinear]

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.

ENT "Singularity" fits with those I think.

"Everybody acts strangely except for one remaining rational hero who saves everyone"-episodes:

- The Naked Time (TOS)
- The Naked Now (TNG)
- Singularity (ENT)
- Bliss (VOY)
- Dramatis Personae (DS9)
- The Game (TNG)
- This Side of Paradise (TOS)

 

[Iamnotspock]

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.

Here it is.

I was sitting with Scott Bakula at lunch about two or three days into shooting the episode. He said, “I like this script. I think this is a good one.” I said, “Yeah, we did this one in season three.” And he looked at me and said, “What?” I said, “It was the same sort of story.” That was not really a put-down, but when you’ve done that many years of writing stories, there will be recurring themes. I think that’s one of the reasons why I thought the new feature film really sort of broke the mold. It was time for new minds to come in and new conceptions to happen, and I think it’s absolutely revitalized the whole franchise. I have that sense now when I got to conventions, that even though ours is an old show that was done years ago, the new energy brought to the franchise by the last feature film has rekindled people’s passions for the whole Star Trek world.

 

[hux]

Voyager borrowed from TNG fairly regularly

"Ex Post Facto" (Voyager) is pretty much a re-imagining of "A Matter of Perspective" (TNG)

 

[Autistoid]

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.

There's also an episode where Picard finds a planet where everything is a mirage. The planet long destroyed is kept together only in some aliens mind.

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.

I think this should actually be a staple in any Trek Series, it's not campy or excessively silly, it's simply the nature of actual space flight.

 

[Albertese]

A shuttle crew is separated from the mothership and has to face the prospect of not getting home: "The Galileo Seven"[TOS] and "Shuttlepod One"[ENT]. Both are even named after the stranded auxiliary craft.

And as a solid Enterprise hater, I find myself surprised to say that I really liked "Shuttlepod One" better than the TOS show.

--Alex

 

[c5maier]

Although I have been a Star Trek fan of the first hour (in Germany: 1971), I (or we as family) have only now cautiously been starting to watch Voyager for the first time.
Last week we saw "Faces" and I said: "That reminds me a lot of "Enemy within" - and I think the newer story was better written and played than the older one. We have bought the following seasons now.

Christoph