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Is there a trope for episodes of TV Show set during other episodes. Not just continuity nods, more than continuity cavalcade even, but a fully-fledged recreation of the setting of an earlier episode.
TOS: The Trouble With Tribbles is revisited by DS 9: Trials & Tribble-Ations, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country revisited by VGR: Flashback, Star Trek: First Contact revisited by ENT: In A Mirror Darkly Part 1, TNG: The Best Of Both Worlds revisited by DS 9: Emissary & Star Trek: First Contact, DS 9: The Siege Of AR-558 revisited by It’s Only A Paper Moon, VGR: Caretaker revisited by Projections, Before And After, Relativity & Shattered, ENT: Broken Bow revisited by Shockwave
Buffy: Once More With Feeling revisited by Selfless
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet revisited by Twice Upon A Time