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Funny, I loved the that the split didn't resolve and let the show go in an interesting direction that most shows chicken out on. I thought season 1 was actually a little rocky and 2-3 were the peak myself.

Season 4 was a complete disaster unfortunately. While Scorpius is fantastic, he doesn't belong on the ship and that wasn't the only nonsensical thing happening by a long shot. I was very happy we got the peace keeper wars to give a solid end to the series, even if it wasn't perfect.

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>While Scorpius is fantastic, he doesn't belong on the ship ...

I agree, and so did the maker of the YouTube video I linked to. Interestingly, Wayne Pilgrim, the actor who plays Scorpius, mentions in an interview how difficult it was for him to play the character, since his motivation became, how shall I say, conflicted. It's an interesting case of the story-tellers putting an actor in a very tough spot.

Yeah, I loved the Split -- most SF shows will make one of the two disposable and then kill them off at the first opportunity, usually within the same episode. Star Trek, I'm looking at you.

The only Star Trek splitting story-line that I recall [1] was not actually resolved! Lt. Riker just sort of disappeared into the background at the end of the episode, with Cdr. Riker and the writers never mentioning him again.

EDIT: apparently Lt. Riker showed up in a DS9 episode[2]!

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chances_(Star_Trek:_The...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defiant_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space...

There was also Sim, in Enterprise, a clone of Trip who was then harvested for spare parts.

Stargate: SG-1 had robot doubles who were killed off.

Sort of both resolved and not resolved since I can't remember him coming back. It did give Frakes an opportunity to play a different character later on in DS9.

I liked that episode and would have enjoyed Thomas Riker showing up again from time to time. Although it was another one of those "why can't they just restore dead crew from the transporter beam?" episodes. Even worse than the Scotty one since doubling Riker means that Riker's matter didn't really matter much.

Thomas Riker was mentioned again in the animated show Star Trek Below Decks, when one of the characters gets doubled by a transporter accident.

Canonical example? The Enemy Within https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_(Star_Trek:_T...

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