10 Best Star Trek Episodes That Revisited Other Episodes

These were some of the most unexpected follow-up episodes in Star Trek history.

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The Star Trek universe is so connected, but still manages to remain (mostly) consistent across all instalments in the franchise. Sometimes, it's even the case that you will just be watching a random episode of Trek, when suddenly you realise that a character or starship seems familiar, and, when you look it up on Memory Alpha, you find out that it has a long, storied history in the lore.

There have been many times in Star Trek's history when specific episodes were revisited and expanded later on. Of course there were the multi-episode arcs in shows like Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, and Discovery, but here, we wanna talk about episodes that aired weeks or even years apart, and that seem at first to be unconnected.

We've gotten backstories that explain the context of another episode, along with continuations of certain character arcs, and even a few episodes that were dedicated specifically to shouting out classic episodes from the past.

10. These Are The Voyages... And The Pegasus

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These Are The Voyages... is notorious for being possibly the worst episode of Enterprise. It was the series-finale, and, since Enterprise was cancelled before it was able to wrap up some of it's most interesting plots, the whole thing felt rushed and unsatisfying.

To make matters worse, the writers came up with the brilliant idea of focusing the episode around William Riker as he played a holoprogram based on the lives of the NX-01 crew, rather than focusing on the actual main characters of the series. This made an already rushed finale even more packed with filler. Trip Tucker was killed off unnecessarily to add emotional impact, but it came out of nowhere and served as nothing more than another slap in the face to fans of Enterprise.

However, These Are The Voyages... was notable for another reason aside from just trampling all over Enterprise. It was actually a continuation of the story of the Next Generation episode The Pegasus.

During The Pegasus, there was a point where Riker was debating with himself whether to tell Picard the true story of the Pegasus' cloaking device and the lies of his former captain, Admiral Pressman. Watching the program of the NX-01 crew was apparently his way of relearning what the Federation was all about. This was not only completely unrelated to anything about Star Trek: Enterprise, but also didn't improve on the story of The Pegasus, and made Riker seem like a worse officer.

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