10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Enterprise

There are two lessons to be learned from this first-season episode of Enterprise. First, don't redo an episode of another series that aired only seven years earlier. Two, don't cast someone in your remake who was a key player in the original.

Both Shadowplay and Oasis find members of the main cast in contact with a group of settlers who eventually turn out to be holograms, except for one individual. The big headslap here is having Odo actor René Auberjonois playing the lone individual in Enterprise when he had been the one investigating the original Deep Space Nine instance. Once you're into the story, it's evident from the last note of Russell Watson's stirring theme that everything is not right. Some guest stars in Enterprise are just right, but the appearance in this case was an immediate red alert.

Auberjonois himself noted the striking similarities between the two episodes, and he would know - he was there. This may have worked had there been a longer gap between the two episodes, but with Shadowplay having made such an impact, it's hard to forget it even three decades later. What would have been less weird was having a Mancunian rock 'n' roll band show up and play out to the final credits in some kind of Dukes of Hazzard homage. Redeeming feature of the episode: a guest appearance by the late, great Annie Wersching.