Remember that one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the crew is trapped in a time loop, forced to live through the same collision with an unknown space ship over and over again? Yeah. Everyone does. Repetition will do that to you.
In the episode (incidentally, titled Cause and Effect, which no one remembers because all you have to say is “time-loop episode”) centers around the typical Star Trek MacGuffin of a “temporal anomaly” and some crap about “tachyons.” Even the greenest of Trekkies can understand this to be short-hand of “time-travel BS.” While the intrepid crew struggle to sort out their deja vu, as they have no memories of the previous destructions, they continue to be blown up again and again.
Eventually, the crew is able to send a message to the android navigator Data, which eventually enables them to break the timeloop. Unlike most timeloops, these characters don't learn much from their experiences besides a healthy appreciation for deep space physics.
The audience might be a little grateful since by the end, it's revealed that the Enterprise was trapped for 17 days. Perhaps the writers made a tactical error and didn't opt to do an entire season in the timeloop. It certainly would have lowered the overhead on production.
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