Best place to ask is probably TV Tropes - they have tropes for everything. laugh They have a page where you can ask and I've found you generally get a speedy answer.

The first one though, I've heard described as a reset. Fans fed up with this trope on ST: Voyager used to refer to the ship as the USS Reset, for example.

LabRat :-)


Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

The Musketeers