TNG's most violent episodes & TV-14 ratings

[jefferiestubes8]

Since TNG went off the air in 1994 The TV Parental Guidelines system was not around as it was only first proposed on December 19, 1996 by the US Congress, the television industry and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and went into effect by January 1, 1997.

'Conspiracy' Episode Number: 124

Space, Canada's science fiction network, precedes this episode with a viewer discretion warning, the only The Next Generation episode to receive this.

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(episode)


What other TNG episodes had a lot of on-screen violence?

Have you seen any odd TV Parental Guidelines TV-PG or TV-14 ratings during re-reruns of TNG on BBCAmerica, SyFy, Spike channels?


There have been other threads specifically for VOY
most violent episodes (& TV Parental Guidelines rating system)

and ENT
most violent episodes (& TV Parental Guidelines rating system)

 

[You_Will_Fail]

Data stabs Troi in "Phantasms" but it was fairly lame.
Besides "Conspiracy", i can't think of any instances of much blood. There was a Voyager episode where someone got stabbed and there was actually a pool of blood and not just a red patch like in "Phantasms".

 

[RapidNadion]

"Violations" led to a temporary ban on TNG in my household when I was about eight years old. The repeated "mind rape" scenes weren't well-received by my father at the dinner table and led him to exclaim, "this isn't for you! This isn't for any of us!" Which was funny in retrospect, since the only people home were him, me, and the family dog.

Anyway, I figure that one might get a higher advisory rating under the new system. And "Power Play" and "Starship Mine" have a fair amount of humanoid-on-humanoid violence, so maybe those too.

 

[nixified]

I just watched "Chain of Command" for the first time. It's not particularly bloody, nor is there much onscreen violence in the usual sense of one person striking another with a weapon, but it does depict torture and suffering. The ickiness in "Conspiracy" just comes off as Halloweeny/gross-out.

Other than DVD, I've almost exclusively watched TNG on WGN America (boo for moving it from midnight to 4am), and I don't recall anything higher than a TV-PG. From what I can tell, with some pre-guidelines series, they just consider it as a whole and slap one generalized rating on it (e.g., The Golden Girls has some possibly TV-G-friendly episodes, but it's a TV-PG series in general).

 

[Jochk]

reletively sure all tng episodes are TV-PG on bbc america were i watch them
same thing on wgn aswell

 

[Alrik]

Not a lot of blood, but Riker took a pretty good ass kicking in First Contact (ep, not movie). The torture scenes in Chain of Command II were pretty suggestive. But I would have to agree that Conspiracy was probably the most graphic violence in TNG.

 

[Shatnertage]

... and led him to exclaim, "this isn't for you! This isn't for any of us!" Which was funny in retrospect, since the only people home were him, me, and the family dog.

I found that really funny--it's the kind of frustrated, nonsensical thing that I would probably say too. Just brightened my afternoon. Thanks!

 

[Praxius]

Besides the head explosion in Conspiracy, I can't think of anything that would be of any similar level, let alone warrant a viewer discretion warning.

For the most part, Star Trek was designed as a family show.... they'd hint about sex, hint about torture, or hint about fights and killing..... they might even openly talk about it in the show, but never directly show it or just show the aftermath with a hearsay discussion into the details of what happened.

I did hear about the DS9 episode To The Death which apparently had a few minutes of the fight scene cut because it was "Too Violent"

We watched that episode just last night and I noticed right off the bat where they cut it.

 

[Doug Otte]

How about the end of Reunion, where Worf uses two-handed enthusiasm to impale Duras? We don't see the impact, yet it's still a shocking scene.

Doug

 

[jefferiestubes8]

How about the end of Reunion, where Worf uses two-handed enthusiasm to impale Duras? We don't see the impact, yet it's still a shocking scene.

Doug Otte in films & TV when parental ratings are concerned if we don't see it it didn't happen.
Funny how even with sound we can hear it but apparently it doesn't matter.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

I remember being pretty disturbed by this scene in "Timescape," way back when seeing for the first time.

I mean, you can see her bones. Plus Crusher was always a favorite, and I hated to see her go, especially like that.

Now I can't stop staring at her Karate chop pose and the fact the Disruptor isn't even REMOTELY close to pointing in that direction.

 

[Alex1939]

Maybe Chain of Command part 2?

Picard's torture.

 

[Praxius]

I think when Data's head was found in the cave and they were picking at it later on the Enterprise.... it did look a little on the creepy side.

 

[Too Much Fun]

I remember being pretty disturbed by this scene in "Timescape," way back when seeing for the first time.

I mean, you can see her bones. Plus Crusher was always a favorite, and I hated to see her go, especially like that.

In that picture, she looks like she's doing the robot. As a kid, the scariest act of violence to me was Geordi being tortured by the Romulans. That shot of him screaming while the camera zooms in on his completely white eyeballs was traumatizing.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I don't know, maybe it's because I'm an ultraviolence freak but I think the about 2% of extra blood in TNG and DS9 that wasn't in VOY makes it better. It's hard to care when it's just a flash of light- maybe, maybe a burn mark- and a character falls over. Bloody gaping holes and explosive decapitation make it a bit easier to take character death seriously.

But then, I watch movies like Pathfinder and DOOM without blinking twice. So don't listen to what I say

 

[Willieck]

Maybe Chain of Command part 2?

Picard's torture.

Most of the violence on ST is of the usual goodies and baddies type but this episode takes it to a new level. It was an excellent episode in its way though quite disturbing and certainly not for family viewing. It is of course based largely on 1984 and the incident with Winston and O'Brien in the Ministry of Love.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Now I can't stop staring at her Karate chop pose and the fact the Disruptor isn't even REMOTELY close to pointing in that direction.

Too bad they didn't put the beam strike where it should have landed. Then again, a shot of Beverly getting her tits vaporized off might have resulted in a ban.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

The head splat in Conspiracy was edited out of the BBC broadcasts in the UK...

Then again, The High Ground was banned altogether.