At least it's an answer! Good job. Far better than people just randomly shouting out episode names.
Graphic TNG episodes
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At least it's an answer! Good job. Far better than people just randomly shouting out episode names.
Pretty much true. Like Home Simpson said when talking about something on Wikipedia with Bart: "We can change that when we get home."
Or, as one of my Professors did at the university, she knew people were using Wikipedia to write their term papers so she, deliberately, when onto Wikipedia and put made up facts on a Civil War page regarding a Regiment she'd assigned for study and a brief writing assignment (it was worth only 10 points). She caught 17 in a 30 person class as having cut and pasted.
But, I do remember during a marathon I was watching on the Fox Affiliate that carried TNG having a warning at the beginning of Conspiracy and then again in the commercial break right before Remmick was killed.
An answer to a question not asked. How is that any better than what people are doing at the moment?
So.... to prove that Wikipedia is an unreliable source she went into it and made it an unreliable source?
Wikipedia like any other tool is as good as people let it be. Wikipedia can be very reliable, so long as you trust only the facts offered that are backed up with a source link.
As for the OP's question...
Keep in mind that TNG was syndicated. It wasn't locked to any set air-time or network. So if Conspiracy came off the satelitte with a warning on it it was up to the individual networks on whether or not not they felt their viewers needed it. So just because person A in City A saw the warning doesn't mean that person B on the otherside of the country saw it.
And I suppose short of someone having a copy of it taped when the episode was first aired we may neve know if Conspiracy "really had" the warning. It strikes me as possible, we're talking about 1987 here and that scene was pretty edgy for the sensibilites of the time and no other episode of TNG sticks out to me as that bad.
^^ It's also possible that some affiliate(s) added their own warning after seeing the content of the episode.
Channel 11 WPIX in New York NEVER ran any first run warnings on ANY Trek episodes.
That's all I know.
That's all I know.
I'm sure this is the actual answer, and several have already said it, but apparently it wasn't good enough for plynch. When TNG originally aired, things like content warnings would have been under the control of dozens of different corporations, all of whom would have had slightly different opinions on what deserved a warning notice and what didn't. For example, some episodes of House are broadcast in the US with a viewer discretion warning which is not shown on Channel 5 here. Different broadcasters, different decisions.
In the UK Conspiracy was aired, but the scene was cut where Remmicks head explodes and his stomach opens up to show the alien mother creature. So basically we saw Riker and Picard firing at Remmick and then we saw them grimacing and heard a "pop".
I know for definite that The High Ground wasn't shown in its first run on our shores. This is due to Data's referencing "The reunification of Ireland in 20..". A political hot potato. I don't know whether this episode has been shown in reruns, perhaps with that line cut.
Anyway, they're the two "graphic TNG episodes" from this side of the pond's perspective. Hope this helps.
I know for definite that The High Ground wasn't shown in its first run on our shores. This is due to Data's referencing "The reunification of Ireland in 20..". A political hot potato. I don't know whether this episode has been shown in reruns, perhaps with that line cut.
Anyway, they're the two "graphic TNG episodes" from this side of the pond's perspective. Hope this helps.
I don't think The High Ground was ever shown by the BBC when it used to have the rights to TNG in the 1990's, although Sky/Virgin have long since shown it during daily reruns and never had any issue with it.
Somewhat strangely, I think the BBC used to show Conspiracy uncut, while Sky/Virgin have cut the Remmick scene at the end for afternoon showings.
The BBFC and the BBC have cut plenty of DS9 episodes in the past, some quite heavily. But that's not for this thread.
Somewhat strangely, I think the BBC used to show Conspiracy uncut, while Sky/Virgin have cut the Remmick scene at the end for afternoon showings.
The BBFC and the BBC have cut plenty of DS9 episodes in the past, some quite heavily. But that's not for this thread.
This is much more likely, I think.
A little graphic content trivia -- Wesley's head was supposed to blow up in Yesterday's Enterprise.
I may be wrong, but I actually seem to remember a warning for the episode where Deanna gets it on with some Betazoid guy who was manipulating wormhole negotiations. This due to the "sexual nature" of the subject matter.
Anyone have a better memory than me?
TNG was syndicated. As a result, any local station could put any warnings they wanted to in front of any particular episode. There were no network-wide warnings everyone would have seen, because it was not a network show.
The most you can say is "on my local station there were no warnings given for any episode". That might not apply to people just down the road from you.
edit: whoops, should have finished reading the thread. Treker4747 said it better above...
And sometimes broadcasters even change. I remember the first time watching By Inferno's Light and there was no warning, but on a repeat airing 10 days later there was a warning about graphic nature or something. I guess somebody called in and complained so the station added the warning to cover itself?
What, some guy came on just berfore returning from commercial and said Remmick's head was about to be blown off in a real icky way?
Talk about spoilers!
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I also watched every TNG episode first run, and there were never any content warnings.
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Same here, except I got busy doing other things during the Aquiel and Sub Rosa stink bombs.
The difference between British and American audience sensibilities is interesting. In Britian, you can show naked people running around, but not blood and gore. In America, God forgid you show too much skin or else you'll get the FCC and the Federal government on your ass, but you can blow people's heads off, no problem.
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