Pleonasm was the use of redundancy in language to emphasize an idea.
Examples of pleonasm
Past history (TOS: "The Conscience of the King", "The Trouble with Tribbles")
Safe haven (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident", Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, VOY: "Year of Hell, Part II", "Good Shepherd")
See it with one's own (two) eyes (DIS: "The War Without, The War Within", "Perpetual Infinity" TNG: "Devil's Due", "The High Ground", "Deja Q", "Thine Own Self", DS9: "When It Rains..." VOY: "Time and Again", "The Disease", "One Small Step", "Critical Care", "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", LD: "Caves", PIC: "Võx")
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| Adages • Allusion • Anagram • Antonomasia • Aphorism • Autoantonym • Axiom • Cliché • Colloquialism • Euphemism • Hyperbole • Idiom • Metaphor • Motto • Onomatopoeia • Oxymoron • Personification • Pleonasm • Profanity • Proverb • Quotation • Reduplication • Rhetoric • Rhetorical question • Saying • Simile • Slang • Tongue twister |
| Subjective parlance: Anatomy • Animal • Architecture • Arts • Botanical • Culinary • Economic • Educational • Fashion • Legal • Literature • Medical • Meteorological • Military • Nautical • Religion (Biblical) • Space • Sports • Transportation • Weapons |