Star Trek episodes that were banned.

[Gingerbread Demon]

Good old BBC and other TV networks I didn't know they banned a few Trek episodes....

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Bless their BBC hearts for being overly sensitive prudes. None of the episodes discussed were worthy of a ban.

 

[NCC-73515]

Pattern of Force aired on Austrian ORF in 1996 or so, much earlier than he says.

 

[ananta]

Although I watched TNG during its first run on the BBC in the 90’s, I didn’t see “The High Ground” until around 2006 when I bought the DVD sets. I can see how it may have been contentious given the political situation regarding Northern Ireland back then. The episode is about as subtle as a sledgehammer with its take on terrorism, but that was often par for the course with TNG’s ‘issue shows’.

 

[NCC-73515]

I would not have become a fan when I did if they hadn't cut the Remmick scene.
They forgot to remove it from Shades of Gray though, that was a real shock seeing it there for the first time! XD

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I would not have become a fan when I did if they hadn't cut the Remmick scene.
They forgot to remove it from Shades of Gray though, that was a real shock seeing it there for the first time! XD

I don't remember "Shades of grey" was that a clip show?

 

[Markonian]

I don't remember "Shades of grey" was that a clip show?

Yes.

 

[Tenacity]

The Remmick scene surprises me to this day. It was atypically graphic for Star Trek, and I wonder why it was shot?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The Remmick scene surprises me to this day. It was atypically graphic for Star Trek, and I wonder why it was shot?

I think they wanted to do that to show something different, and show that Star Trek wasn't afraid to do a scene like that.

 

[publiusr]

TNG aired in the 1980s, when splatter films and FANGORIA reigned.

1982 gave us THE THING as well as ST II.
TNG was only five years later...though it doesn’t feel that way. ALIEN wasn’t even a decade old, and it bridged S.F. with horror.

I think T. E. D. Klein’s novel THE CEREMONIES was also in the imagination.