Alternate dimensions, body swapping, and time loops are all familiar scenarios in sci-fi and fantasy TV.

These are the top six.

Youll be hard pushed to find a genre show that doesnt use these eventually!

Alternate realities and fantasy or dream scenarios also occasionally make use of this trope, such asFarscapesUnrealized Reality.

Ill be looking out for it over the next couple of seasons.

Then you hit upon the perfect solution.

Possibly wearing a cricket jumper, as Daniel Jackson looks like it’s inSG-1sAbyss.

There are, however, two main types.

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(In Captain Kirks case, its quite hard to tell the difference.)

It is absolutely compulsory to bring a deceased character back in Alternate Universe form.

And probably die again by the end.

Just defining one of these terms could be the length of a book chapter.

What I have in mind here, however, is a bit more simple.

The net result is that we see two versions of the same character.

Sometimes, the trope goes super-sized.

Et voila, those are the six staples of science fiction and fantasy television.

The point of repeating these stories for writers is not, as is often assumed, laziness.

As you may have guessed,Farscapeis probably the most successful!