Star Trek TNG ' Future Imperfect'

My thoughts exactly!

I just finished watching STNG -Future Impact [which I know I’ve seen years earlier] during the SyFy marathon today, and I connected the storyline of 36 Hours, and I wondered if anyone else picked up on this.
So I jumped online to IMdB, and here I am responding to your post.

One interesting point I’d like to make is that although the basic premise of the story is the same, 36 Hours uses mid 20th Century concepts while Star Trek uses futuristic concepts, but they both deliver the same story.

That reminds me of two expressions:

“The more things change, the more they stay the same”
and
“There is nothing new under the Sun”

I enjoyed watching 36 Hours and I continue to watch and enjoy STNG after all these years, because it’s about the writing!

Thanks for listening.

There is also an episode of the 1970s Hardy Boys series like it. The Hardy Boys with their father were in Hong Kong intending to meet up with a Chinese dissident who was planning to defect. Joe woke up in the hospital, with a nurse who convinced him that he had been in a coma for I forget how long: a year? two years? Not a super-long time, but still more than several months. They had the faked newspaper trick. They were trying to convince him that the meet with the dissident had been ambushed, and that his father and brother were killed and he was put into a coma. All this was done, naturally, to get him to spill where the meeting was to take place so that the Communists (or maybe it was gangsters? I can't remember if this was the Chinese Communists as the villains, or just criminals) could catch the would-be defector.

Joe figured out they were lying to him when he examined his clothes that were hanging in the closet. Some perfume that his brother Frank had spilled on him as a joke was still extremely powerful--no dissipation of the smell, which should have happened in a year or two or however it was supposed to have been.

And--I just remembered that there is also an episode of "V" that used this plot. The Visitors had captured Marc Singer's character, and tried to convince him that he had recurring bouts of amnesia, but it was a year or so after their final victory over the Visitors, and he was comfortably married to the female doctor who was his love interest, and his son was back with them. The sci-fi addition was that this was all illusion--not just pretense, but like a holographic illusion making him see the Visitor commander played by Jane Badler as his doctor girlfriend/"wife."

My first thought after learning of the film's existence! The Stargate SG-1 episode "Out of Mind" has much the same premise.