Prop Recycling: Difference between revisions

** The long, thin energy weapons with the ridged undersides on their grips, that taper to a point instead of having a barrel and look vaguely like emaciated vacuum cleaners, initially appeared in an early episode where SG-1 encounter a planet where two religious factions are at war over beliefs concerning their planet's Stargate. Since then, these weapons have become "that one prop", appearing in different, totally unrelated episodes over, and over, and over... until finally from mid-season 3 onwards they completely replaced the Wraith stunner rifles in ''Stargate Atlantis'', which to begin with had original, completely different looking props.

** The Ancient space suits from ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' originally appeared as power armor used by the {{spoiler|rogue Asgard}} in one episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''.

** ''Galactica'' itself averted this trope by auctioning off a huge number of props, uniforms, set pieces, and curios to raise money for ''[[Caprica]]''. [[Shaggy Dog Story|Which was canceled after less than one season.]]

* ''[[Star Trek]]''

** The Federation transporter pads in the various series all use parts of the original one from ''[[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.