Steve Shives tackles TOS's Earth duplicates (AKA examples of
Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planet Development).
If you believe the Shatnerverse, all of these duplicate Earths were the result of a Preserver plan, but I'm not sure how much I like that idea.
I'm okay with Hodgkin's Law in general, but not duplicate Declaration of Independences or stuff like that.
Incidentally, I don't call any planet with identical to human natives a duplicate Earth. That's just '60s budget constraints. Just like I'm willing to say that Klingons always had ridges, we can say that these species had out-of-budget differences. Different numbers of fingers, odd eye shapes, that sort of thing.
"A Piece of the Action" isn't a duplicate Earth, it was made that way by the the book the Horizon left. He also cites "The Royale", which was again, an intentional duplication.
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