Star Trek homage/adaptation/reimagining list

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

After I said here:

I feel like we need a homage list of all episodes and films and the works they've directly/intentionally adapted or referenced in this manner.

It was then suggested by @UssGlenn that I make a separate thread for this.

Specifically, I was referring to episodes heavily influenced by a previous work, not mere mentions of an existing work or quotes from it.

(@Extrocomp and @ryan123450, I know you were involved in list making and updating in the Treklit forum (unnamed characters named in lit, canon events expanded on in lit, etc.))

Starting with TOS:

The previous thread mentioned "Balance of Terror" being inspired by The Enemy Below.

 

[UssGlenn]

some easy ones:

TOS: Arena: based on a short story of the same name by Frederic Brown.
SNW: Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach: inspired by The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
VOY: Bride of Chaotica! directly inspired by Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The goal is to eventually have a list with:

Three headers: episode/film name, what works it's inspired by, and what specifically they have in common (for those unfamiliar with the other work in question)

Possibly a fourth header on notable ways the work differs (notably) from the inspiration (e.g. happy ending instead of sad)

 

[F. King Daniel]

Star Trek: A TV series "heavily inspired" by the movie Forbidden Planet.

 

[Turtletrekker]

DS9'S Meridian was expressly described as "Brigadoon with Dax as Gene Kelly", by Ira Steven Behr, who originated the idea before passing it off to the writers.

TNG's Moriarity episodes were obviously heavily inspired by Doyle.

Our Man Bashir, which was a take on the spy genre as a whole, but borrowed the most from James Bond.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Off the top of my head:

The Cage is eerily similar to a Twilight Zone episode, even featuring the same actress.
I heard Piece of the Action is inspired by the film Robin and the 7 Hoods.
Spectre of the Gun combined O.K. Corral movies like Hour of the Gun with the dreamlike incomplete sets of the movie Red Garters.
People always say Starship Down is Die Hard on a Spaceship (in the same way that Under Siege is Die Hard on a Boat, and Under Siege II is Die Hard on a Train).
Q-Pid is apparently specifically spoofing the 30s Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie.
TNG's The Enemy and Enterprise's Dawn etc. are both Enemy Mine.
Enterprise's Marauders is one of the many many TV episodes inspired by Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven, and one of the most lifeless.
Enterprise's Canamar feels almost like an anagram of Con Air.


And some Trek echoing Trek examples:

TNG's Home Soil is basically TOS: The Devil in the Dark.
TNG's Contagion is a much better version of TNG: The Last Outpost.
ENT's Doctor's Orders is clearly Voyager's One.

 

[UssGlenn]

Enterprise's Marauders is one of the many many TV episodes inspired by Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven, and one of the most lifeless.

Ironically, The Magnificent Ferengi is not a take on the Magnificent 7.

 

[Extrocomp]

(@Extrocomp and @ryan123450, I know you were involved in list making and updating in the Treklit forum (unnamed characters named in lit, canon events expanded on in lit, etc.))

I know too little about classic novels and movies to attempt something like this. I have been thinking about making a list of alien crewmembers on the USS Enterprise, Enterprise-A, Enterprise-D, Enterprise-E, Voyager and Cerritos.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Mudd's Women- The Wiving Settlers Trope from Westerns (and no doubt other genres)
Elaan of Troyius- My Fair Lady/Pygmalion meets Taming of the Shrew via the Greek myths

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

And some Trek echoing Trek examples:

Into Darkness based on TWOK

 

[SteveJRogers]

Our Man Bashir, which was a take on the spy genre as a whole, but borrowed the most from James Bond.

And pedantically, Our Man Flint gives the episode its title

 

[Tosk]

Profit and Loss is very Casablanca-y. To the point where they apparently even toned down some of it. ("It was originally titled "Here's Lookin' At You...")

 

[BK613]

Q-Pid is apparently specifically spoofing the 30s Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie.

Or someone saw a trailer for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and thought A-HA!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

"The Naked Now" is a remake of "The Naked Time".

 

[somebuddyX]

DS9's Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges is literally just John Le Carre's The Spy who came in from the Cold but in space. Mundt is Koval, Cretak is Fiedler, Bashir is Leamas/Nan, Ross is Smiley.

 

[Greg Cox]

"Wolf in the Fold" by Robert Bloch is basically a sci-fi variant on Bloch's classic short story, "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper," which had been previously adapted on Boris Karloff's Thriller just a few years before.

"The Enemy Within" is Jekyll & Hyde in sci-fi drag.

"Requiem for Methuselah" is (like Forbidden Planet) yet another variant on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

"Threshold" (VOY) owes a lot to Cronenberg's remake of The Fly.

"Little Green Men" (DS9) is very consciously aping the look and feel of classic 1950s sci-fi films, although not any one film in particular.

"Sub Rosa" allegedly bears a strong resemblance to the novel Lasher by Anne Rice. (I haven't read that particular Rice novel, so I can't confirm this.)

"Tapestry" (TNG). One can make a case that this owes something to "It's a Wonderful Life" and perhaps "A Christmas Carol" as well.

Seems to me Trek has riffed on "The Manchurian Candidate" a few times, most notably when some bad guys brainwashed Geordi via his visor. (Can't remember the episode title offhand.). And I seem to recall Nimoy comparing the sixth movie to "The Manchurian Candidate" well. The classic 1960s version, of course, not the relatively recent remake, which was not a thing back then.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

GALILEO SEVEN, produced by Lucille Ball's production company, is heavily influenced by her best '30s film FIVE CAME BACK. (And she did.)

 

[Greg Cox]

some easy ones:

TOS: Arena: based on a short story of the same name by Frederic Brown.

Unsolicited copyedit: Fredric, not "Frederic."

Nothing personal. I mention this only because it's a very common mistake, to the extent that one is more likely to see the name spelled incorrectly than correctly these days.

(See also the actor Fredric March.)

 

[DarrenTR1970]

It's a shame that Boris Karloff's Thriller isn't in syndication because I've read good things about it.
I would especially like to see 'Cheaters' and 'Pigeons from Hell'.

 

[Nerys Myk]

"Sub Rosa" allegedly bears a strong resemblance to the novel Lasher by Anne Rice. (I haven't read that particular Rice novel, so I can't confirm this.)

I've read it and it was the first thing that came to mind up on seeing "Sub Rosa."