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** After three years of the original series and ''eighteen'' years for its spin-offs, scripts began to be borrowed and recycled from within each show and across the franchise as a whole. For example, the basic script for the original series episode "Elaan of Troyius" was recycled ''twice.'' It got particularly bad with ''Enterprise,'' which was accused of being a recycle of ''Voyager'' as a whole set in the past.
* The ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' episode "Doctor's Orders" is virtually identical to the ''Voyager'' episode "One."
** The ''Enterprise'' episode "Home" was similar to the ''Next Generation'' episode "Family". Both dealt with the ''Enterprise'' returning to Earth and the crew going on shore leave to visit their families and friends. Both were basically done so the characters and viewers could recover from the previous episodes, which had been emotionally trying for everyone ("Best of Both Worlds" for ''Next Generation'', the entire Xindi arc for ''Enterprise''). However, "Home" did serve a higher purpose, introducing three plot elements that would be expanded upon later (T'Pol's political problems and arranged marriage, human xenophobia, and the character of Erika Hernandez, captain of the starship ''Columbia''). Short version: "Home" was "Family" with a few [[Chekhov's Gun]]s. (No [[Chekov's Gun
** "Oasis" from ''Enterprise'' was extremely similar to "Shadowplay" from ''Deep Space Nine'', both being about isolated societies that turn out to mostly consist of holograms created by the one real person to stave off loneliness after the people they're based on were all killed. "Oasis" even brought back ''Deep Space Nine'' cast member Rene Auberjonois, who immediately pointed out the similarity.
** ''Enterprise'' also has the episode "Chosen Realm," an obvious redo of the original series' "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield." Both deal with aliens who are at war over a trivial matter reflecting society at the time(having different colored skin, or a trivial religious debate), who ultimately return to their planet to discover that everyone has long since killed each other.
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