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** This trope was also used in another Fourth Doctor serial, ''The Deadly Assassin''. In Part 1, the Doctor experiences a vision of the Time Lord president being assassinated. Arriving on Gallifrey, he determines to prevent this from happening. He heads to the balcony overlooking the room where the murder is to take place so that he will be able to see what's going on, and finds a gun lying there. The Doctor picks up the gun, sights along it, and fires. The president falls over, dead! Cut to credits! In Part 2, as is standard in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', we see the last minute or so of the previous episode over again -- only this time ''an extra shot'' is inserted that wasn't there before: that of a person in the crowd below holding a gun. It all becomes clear: the Doctor was ''trying'' to shoot at the assassin below, but his gun had been tampered with so that he would be unable to hit the assassin. The fact that he figures that out and convinces the investigating officer goes a long way towards clearing his name.

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' did this with the episode called "The Enterprise Incident". Kirk, seemingly against Starfleet orders, invades Romulan space and gets the Enterprise captured. Spock then betrays the ship by siding with the Romulans, and testifies that Kirk has gone insane from the pressures of command, before killing Kirk in self defense. {{spoiler|This all turns out to be a plan set up by Starfleet to allow Kirk and Spock to steal a Romulan cloaking device, while providing Starfleet with plausible deniability should the deal go south.}}

* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', Tuvok enters the mess hall and, driven just an inch too far by [[Alien Scrappy|Neelix's relentless good cheer]], [[Beware the Nice Ones|strangles him to death]]. It turns out to be [[All Just a Dream|a holodeck simulation]]; Tuvok was having difficulty controlling his emotions after [[Mind Meld|mind melding]] with a psychopathic member of the crew, and he'd hoped the simulation would let him work out his emotional imbalance.

** In the ''Voyager'' episode "Worst Case Scenario", the Maquis stage a mutiny and Torres joins them, but it turns out to be a holodeck simulation; Tuvok set up the simulation to counter a possible rebellion from the Maquis crew that had joined Voyager's crew, but the two crews integrated so well that he decided not to finish the simulation.