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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Narsil" data-source="post: 3163580" data-attributes="member: 40704">That was a 1989 episode.  The Cybermen appeared in the exact same story that introduced regeneration in 1966, which was the fourth season of Doctor Who.  It's not exactly the first of the ever-constant ripoffs, just an earlier one.  The Jem'Hadar (first appearance: 1994) are drug-addled lunatic warrior clones, so are the Sontarans (first appearance: 1973).  That's a difference of twenty one years.The Q (first appearance: 1987), who are immensely powerful and mysterious beings which live in another dimension, tried their most prominent member for 'meddling' and sentenced him to exile.  Later repealed.  The Timelords (first appearance: 1963!), who are immensely powerful and mysterious beings which live in another dimension, tried their most prominent member for 'meddling' and sentenced him to exile.  Later repealed.  That's a difference of twenty four years.In Star Trek: Enterprise, second season, the crew encountered a time-travelling ship from the thirty-first century that was bigger on the inside than the outside.  It made its first appearance in the year 2003.  The Doctor travels in a time-travelling ship, probably from the future, that is bigger on the inside.  It made its first appearance in 1963.  Difference of forty years.EDIT:I've noticed a trend; all ripoffs tend to be TNG-or-later.  TOS lacks the ripoffishness of later Trek.  I Blame Berman and Braga</blockquote>

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