10 Times Star Trek Reused Sets And Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

5. Voyager's Sickbay/Enterprise-E Sickbay

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When it came to introducing a new starship for the fourth live-action Star Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager updated some of the designs for the interiors of a Starfleet vessel. The bridge and engineering sets were revamped, modernised, and made to look as 21st century as the mid-90s would allow.

The sickbay set, complete with yellow glowing walls, a new bio-bed, and an office for the Chief Medical Officer, was constructed and proved to be so popular that the production team on Star Trek: First Contact fancied a bit borrowing for the new Enterprise-E.

First Contact was in production between Voyager's second and third seasons, so the sets were standing there - not making the production team any money. They were redressed and repainted, though kept structurally intact so that when the series began production again, there would be a simple case of transforming them back. Robert Picardo makes a cameo in First Contact as the Enterprise's Emergency Medical Hologram, so one could argue that the team borrowed everything from the stranded ship - including the software.

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