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Removing explicit content from ST shows?

2 Fucks is still PG-13, The Martian had 2 and was PG-13 :devil:
While I would appreicate less Fuck'ing Hubris, it kind of takes me out of the moment because I notice it,
My thing is to make it more kiddy friendly, not Peppa Pig age, but 7 and up, Clone wars and others got away with alot of violence with being Y7 .. Guess I'm still a bit of a prude not to expose kids to bad language and nudity for there kiddy years. keep "Innocence" I guess. Remember growing up that way, not a religious household, but they did care. But then i was watching total Recall at a young age.. but thats just 80's R with random tripple boobage.
And even now i watch my language with my parents...
 
2 Fucks is still PG-13, The Martian had 2 and was PG-13 :devil:
So it's official. Star Trek: Picard isn't a hard fucking R, it's a hard fucking PG-13! :evil:

Kick ass. Note to parents: Admiral Clancy is suitable-viewing for your eighth-grader and she'll whip those kids into shape and won't put up with any sheer f***ing hubris!
 
MPA (formerly MPAA) ratings are flexible. According to the guidelines, more than one F-bomb used as an expletive (and not used in its literal meaning) would bump a movie to an R rating, but it's possible to keep it at PG-13 by a two-thirds majority vote from the board.

Back in the days before PG-13, "All the President's Men" at first received an R rating, but was re-rated to PG on appeal for its cultural/historical value or something. The film has eleven F-bombs (including a colorful compound word to describe political sabotage), which was actually a reduction from 25 of them in the script.

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PG "Enterprise" would just be the theme song and all the scenes with the beagle. One if the lead characters had a bare @ss Crack on his forehead for frak's sake!
 
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you all made me do this.


merseefullll...

and quick!
 
Ahhhh does the OP know how horny Roddenberry was? The Great Bird would have absolutely had the entire cast of TNG be nude 100% of the time if censors would allow it. Also all the conference room scenes would have been replaced with Love instructor sessions and The Borg would have been beaten by downloading a copy of the Kama Sutra in the collective consciousness instead of putting them all to sleep.
 
Actually, the Rating Board can vote to rate the film PG-13, if it's two "fucks."

Specifically, from https://www.filmratings.com/Content/Downloads/rating_rules.pdf:

A motion picture's single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual context. The Rating Board nevertheless may rate such a motion picture PG-13 if, based on a special vote by a two-thirds majority, the Raters feel that most American parents would believe that a PG-13 rating is appropriate because of the context or manner in which the words are used or because the use of those words in the motion picture is inconspicuous.​
 
WTF?

Seriously, is the idea here that the "future-audience" will be too evolved to comprehend sex and violence, so we need to preemptively censor Star Trek for the benefit of our more enlightened ancestors?

I'm sorry. That's just silly.

Nobody knows what future audiences will like or not, or how things will evolve, though maybe the OP is referring to tactfulness of dialogue, if not shock jock mannerisms or even desensitization? Why censor any of it anyway? Most people generally don't watch what they don't like and there's always a scene somewhere one will find disagreeable. It's a TV show and the makers and the audience won't always agree.

Still, sci-fi has occasionally discussed "enlightened ancestors" in one form or another, too...
 
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Has the OP by any chance accidentally been watching "This Ain't Star Trek XXX"? 'Cause that's a porno full of explicit content.

I saw that parody, and I came away with two observations (and I'm being professional here...):

1. When you excise all the actual porn content (which the DVD menu actually lets you do, and it's pretty boring stuff anyway), the result is actually a pretty decent TNG episode idea. In a nutshell, the away team finds a capsule buried on an uninhabited planet containing the now-older Tasha Yar from the "Yesterday's Enterprise" war timeline in suspended animation. After the Enterprise-C went back in time to sacrifice itself against the Romulans at Narendra III, alt-Yar was captured by the Romulan admiral who would be Sela's father. But unlike how Sela said that her mother was executed, it turns out that was a lie and alt-Yar survived and escaped. Now reunited with her (sort-of) former crew, she and the rest of the characters adjust to each other. But then Tasha tries to take control of the ship, and it turns out that she's being controlled against her will by Sela, who is using her mother as a weapon to steal the Enterprise and return with it to Romulus as a prize. But the plan is foiled, Tasha dies again, and Picard does some final heavy contemplating in his ready room right before the scene where Beverly comes in and shags him rotten. Most of the porn actors who play the bridge crew are surprisingly good at looking and acting like the TNG crew. The guy that plays Data is phenomenally spot-on. The bridge set is good too for a porn movie, although it's obvious where corners needed to be cut.

2. The models used for the Enterprise-D and Sela's warbird were off-the-shelf AMT model kits, but they looked professionally built and lit. However, for some reason they were both constructed to not look exactly like how they appeared in the show (apparently the 25% different rule was in effect, lol.) The Enterprise's saucer is placed further back on the neck than normal, making the ship shorter, and the entire upper hull of the warbird was removed (or never added in the first place.) But by far the weirdest change was to Picard's Stargazer model in his ready room. It's not the Stargazer at all, but an anachronistic model of the Enterprise-E with a way out of scale TOS Enterprise nacelle and pylon attached to the top of the ship. I guess it was meant to be phallic-looking, but it just looks stupid.
 
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