10 Times Star Trek Reused Props To Cut Corners

When it comes to stained glass windows, it's generally easier not to continually order new ones for various scenes. Producing them can be a costly and time-consuming endeavour. That's why this particular entry pops up here. In Enterprise's third-season episode Exile, Hoshi stays on a planet in a Beauty and the Beast type situation. The resident alien, Tarquin, attempts to convince Hoshi to stay with him in his beautiful castle, styled in a Medieval fashion.

Those windows had appeared in Star Trek before. When Picard and Shinzon sit down to dinner in Star Trek: Nemesis, they are clearly visible behind the Starfleet captain. The thing with stained glass windows is that they almost always convey a sense of grandeur to any location, so they truly added to the scene on Romulus. This is heightened with Picard leaves the table to step into the Romulan senate itself.

Both uses of the windows were meant to depict a deeper meaning and presence than there actually had been in the episodes and movies they featured in. It is also quite telling that in both cases, the windows were a mask for the lies being told by Tarquin and Shinzon.