No Time Travel For You

[T'Girl]

A resent guideline from the Chinese governments State Administration of Radio Film and Television discourages plot lines that contain elements of "fantasy, time-travel, random compilations of mythical stories, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, even propagating feudal superstitions, fatalism and reincarnation, ambiguous moral lessons, and a lack of positive thinking."

And specifically: “TV dramas shouldn’t have characters that travel back in time and rewrite history"

Now I'm not starting a politically thing here (wrong forum), it just this got me thinking, under this directive and the specific line I highlighted could more than a very few episodes of Star trek Enterprise be shown? The friend that showed this to me estimated that only a dozen episodes contain NO time travel elements of any kind, that number seems a bit low to me, but how many are there really with none?

Anything with the TCW or the Sphere Builders is time travel, the two mirror universe episodes also have some.

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/china-bans-time-travel-for-television/

 

[Shatnertage]

"Observer Effect" would be in, but it might have mythological elements, so I guess that's out too.

 

[F. King Daniel]

"The Chinese science directorate has determined that time travel is impossible."

Bizarre plots and fantasy elements pretty much deletes the show, and every single other sci-fi/fantasy out there. On Enterprise, American talking lizardman aliens plot to blow up the planet Earth with a clockwork Death Star. Just sayin'.

 

[bluedana]

Scott Bakula is pretty much not welcome in China, I guess.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Well, thankfully TATV won't be forced on the Chinese people.

 

[I am Surak]

But I think "A night in Sick Bay" will qualify. Good for them!

 

[timelord1010]

Technically the whole show couldn't be watched since it is set in the future, which would mean the viewer is seeing into the future, a kind of time travel.