Prop Recycling: Difference between revisions

* ''Series/The [[The Twilight Zone]]'' is famous for recycling pieces of the set. Some examples:

** Scenes from ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'', including use of the ship, the shuttle, and Vipers were all re-used to make the movie ''[[Space Mutiny]]'', which was then parodied by ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.

** The Federation transporter pads in the various series all use parts of the original one from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', usually flipping it or swapping out decals. This sort of thing was done fairly often, using parts of one show's sets for the ones that follow.

** The propmasters of all incarnations of ''Trek'' were rather quite, well, masterful at prop recycling; most props were recycled either from other shows or movies or even recycled from other episodes of any given preceding ''Trek'' incarnation including itself. Starship models, even in the CGI era, were particularly prone to this, the end result being several different alien races, separated by the entire length of the galaxy or even by centuries in some cases (or even both) used variations of the same ship design in various scales (or their medical scanner or communications relay would bear an odd resemblance to a certainanother race's ship).

** Most of the sets from the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' era of ''Trek'' owe their existence to ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]''. Almost every single subsequent starship interior, including those of Picard's ''USS Enterprise,'' ''USS Voyager'' and so on, and even Klingon ship interiors, were redresses of the ''Enterprise'' interior from that film (namely, all eponymous ships [but not stations] shared the same hallway interiors, and Klingon bridges were actually the redress of the engineering room from the film). These 30+ year old sets survived until shortly after ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' wrapped up, in which they were destroyed by having accidentally been left out in the rain; some were painstakingly recreated for the final episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]].''

** In ''[[Star Trek: TOSThe Original Series]]'' they sent out some people to go get unusual salt and pepper shakers for the mess hall scenes, so to look "futuristic". The ones they got were rejected because it was decided this would just confuse the viewers and they wound up using normal looking ones. The weird ones were moved to the sick bay and became advanced tech medical instruments.

** The bombardier-like window of a spacecraft in one episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' was reused as a portal to the Xindi aquarians the following season.

** An example that has gone unnoticed for decades: Paramount altered Col. Philip Green's jumpsuit from the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "The Savage Curtain" into [[Mork and Mindy|Mork's spacesuit]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4WjJDjE5w Ya rly. And that's not the only thing they recycled...] This is also a bit of hilarious irony to ''Star Trek'' fans, since Col. Philip Green is, in the ''Star Trek'' universe, the 21st century answer to ''Hitler'', who organized the extermination of 30 million radiation-mutated people and was a symbol of xenophobic sentiment for centuries.

** Another bit from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' to show up on ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' was the spacesuit from "The Tholian Web". Mindy's dad showed up wearing it in one episode.