cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/chevron7/p/987676/they-wrote-the-same-episode-twice
- https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Emancipation
- https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Code_of_Honor_(episode)
Both episodes feature a female officer being abducted and later participating in a fight to the death, which both parties survive. In further coincidence, both episodes are the fourth episodes of their shows’ first season.
Both 1x4 as well
And both on my “skip during my yearly rewatch” list…
Not shown: Katharyn Powers’ episode of Friends in which Phoebe and Rachel are forced to fight to the death to please Chandler.
Yeah but she also wrote some good episodes. It’s strange.
It’s not that strange. Writers are often up against tight deadlines and you just gotta do what you gotta do. Not every thing you produce is going to be your best work.
Not an excuse for blatant racism.
What the fuck, man? Nobody said anything about “blatant racism”, and you downvote me, too? I am not familiar with either of these episodes just by their name. I’m simply responding to the idea that the same person can write good things and terrible things for TV.
Maybe don’t weigh in on things you don’t understand then?
If you don’t know what the episodes are and why they are problematic, I’m not sure why you’d wasn’t to try and defend the episode writing…
The topic is specifically about a writer reusing the same script for two different TV series. Not about racism. I’m not sure who invited the censors who want to stop people from talking about one thing just because it’s related to something else.
okay yes in general but these episodes are extremely racist nonsense so your defense isn’t accurate in this case at all.
No, but it is an explanation. Racism is ultimately just a particularly harmful kind of lazy thinking, reducing complex people to lazy stereotypes. But just because it can have a mundane origin doesn’t mean it’s not evil.
She wrote lizards, not africans
Hey, at least Powers didn’t contribute to the thing we dislike about “Code of Honor”. Those aliens were originally lizard-like.
From the original storyboard for the episode:
Is that why so many of episodes seem similar!?
You mean we could have seen this episode a dozen times?
A dozen, a hundred, it’s impossible to meme.
