What are your favorite 'Retread' or 'Rehash' episodes?

[TheAdmiralty]

My mind keeps going to Stargate retreads of Star Trek episodes. There's so many more.

Lower Decks and Good Shepherd.

Was going to say that one. Not big on Voyager, but I think Good Shepherd was one of their best shows. The guest stars all did a good job. Still not as good as Lower Decks, though.

 

[TheAdmiralty]

Q is basically a rehash of "The Squire of Gothos."

Omnipotent Q like characters showed up a lot on TOS. Roddenberry deciding to consolidate all of those type characters into one entity for TNG was a good idea.

 

[RomulanCommander]

Another one that was done really well was E2(E Squared) on ENT. It is very similar to Children of Time on DS9.


I just wanted to put 4 initial examples. One retread from each series, taken from it's direct predecessor. I think Royale is more like A Piece of the Action and Spectre of the Gun mixed together and set in a casino.

I actually liked E2 better, though.

 

[UnknownSample]

Ensigns of Command was an unusually good example of this kind of story. All the "flaws" listed are what make it better. The colonists were overwhelmingly opposed. Data managed to get a slim majority at practically the last moment. The whole ep was about how hard the task was.
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Is it surprising that the Federation doesn't just round up free citizens by force?

 

[Greg Cox]

Hah! Wasn't I just talking about vampire mermaids?

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-trailer-for-freeforms-siren-brings-us-a-seriously-t-1794468666

 

[FormerLurker]

Doesn't look like a vampire so much as being adapted to its natural environment. There's very little variation in dentition in sea creatures that eat meat, just fangs and cutting teeth, for the most part.