10 Star Trek Episodes That Were Banned

[@TheMaibus]

It feels like this video should be called "10 Star Trek Episodes That Were Banned... by the BBC"

[@FenrisTheMannis]

Careful now, the BBC might ban you as well!

[@neonswitchblade]

Right?!? Good thing I looked first for this comment!

[@karlbergen6826]

I agree. Here in the States this stuff was aired and was on reruns

[@redf7209]

I think it might be more accurate to say they were banned for the timeslot they were bought for. At the time the BBC was having enough problems from Daleks sending kids hiding behind a sofa.. They had no problem showing this sort of stuff at a later time of day in the form of Hammer horror films.

[@diymicha4905]

Nope. It should be called "9 Star Trek Episodes That Where Banned by the BBC and 1 Episode by German TV"

[@daerdevvyl4314]

“No shirt no shoes no service.” I was once working in a 7/11 when a man walked in stark naked and bought a pack of cigarettes. It was easier to give him service (so to speak) and get him the hell out, rather than pick a fight. You might ask what kind of dystopia would produce someone who would walk into a 7/11 naked. It’s Winnipeg. That’s the kind of place it is.

[@aceichner]

Gotta ask a few questions. Cash or Card? Was he just carrying it? If cash did he get change? Where did that go? Did he get matches?

[@daerdevvyl4314]

aceichner It was the middle of the night, but it was a very busy street (Pembina Highway for anybody who knows Winnipeg.) So traffic was minimal, but never stops completely. There was a taxi with a driver sitting in the lot just outside the door, just chilling and waiting for a fare. A van drove into the lot, and this man got out naked with a $20 bill in his hand. He casually walked past the taxi and walked in and asked for a pack of cigarettes. I can’t remember how much the cigarettes were, but he got change, a paper bill and some coins. He walked back out with his cigarettes, the paper bill and coins in his hands. He walked past the taxi again while the driver stared at him and he got in his van and drove away. It’s actually not very likely that anybody in a passing car would have seen him since there wasn’t much traffic and the their view would have been partially blocked by surrounding buildings and his van. So I think the only two people who saw him were me and the taxi driver. I had a coworker in the office and I went and told him. He seemed like he wasn’t sure whether he should believe me, so I told him he could ask the taxi driver. He went to the taxi and said “Was there anything unusual about the guy who was just in here?” The driver answered “I think he was naked!”

[@miniaturemage]

Philadelphia produced such an event, as well, and in the middle of the day. A woman, wearing nothing but a smile, attempted to walk into the grocery store as I was checking out. I had little in the way of warning, except for my companion’s glance out the window and a calm, “Well, now I’ve seen everything.” She didn’t get any groceries, but then again, I couldn’t see that she was carrying any form of payment.

[@marischal3]

You know what's great? I saw your first two sentences and thought, "sounds like home." and lo and behold, you're from Winnipeg too! :D

[@daerdevvyl4314]

Monique Olivier That IS great! I lived in Winnipeg for a long time, but I’m originally from Neepawa, and I’m back in rural Manitoba again. That’s one reason that I’m so negative about Winnipeg. When you live most of your life in the country, all the bad things about city life really stand out in your mind!

[@SweetBabyGray]

Jadzia Dax's kiss was actually technically Star Trek's first foursome too.

[@kristhompsonfilm]

Woah.

[@Alteringrealitystudios]

Spit out my coffee. Much thanks laugh needed.

[@colinp2238]

Wasn't it a threesome as Dax was the implant and the other woman was his wife when he was in a male host?

[@SweetBabyGray]

@@colinp2238 Lenara was joined to a symbiote as well.

[@BedsitBob]

@@colinp2238 Wasn't there a veiled suggestion of homosexuality, in the Next Generation episode The Host?

[@toddward1236]

They were worried about Marta, but aired Benny Hill for years.

[@ivorbiggun710]

Benny Hill was on ITV, not the BBC.

[@rodneytrotter3725]

And also, like the narrator said, the BBC viewed Star Trek as a kids show. They never viewed Benny Hill as a kids show,

[@gelertgames]

Geeze...Benny Hill... there's a flashback from the past....imagine that now our TV!

[@bernlin2000]

@@rodneytrotter3725 That's like saying X-Files is a children show...total failure to comprehend a TV shows scope.

[@Cheepchipsable]

@@bernlin2000 Sci fi in general was viewed as a kids entertainment back then.

[@233kosta]

In fairness, the "Irish unification of 2024" might just happen, given how the UK is doing right now and the direction they're going in

[@BerniesBastelBude]

was this quoted in this episode? - i cannot recall the details...

[@233kosta]

@@BerniesBastelBude I swear I've seen it in one of them, but that was a long time ago. Perhaps worth looking up

[@vipiccb6896]

@@233kosta nope

[@233kosta]

@@vipiccb6896 Surely it's "newp"?

[@irish3641]

I'm working on it, should be on schedule.

[@brucelesourd3074]

It's interesting you use "consenting adults" to describe the TOS interracial kiss, since in the story it was NOT a consensual kiss... both Uhura and Kirk were forced to do it. Sort of undermines the legitimacy of the "ground-breaking" nature of the kiss from a modern audience's perspective, but ST always played that game of tip-toeing up to a line through alien context to allow them to push various envelopes.

[@fuckinghikki]

i'm pretty sure he meant jadzia smooching her ex-wife.

[@marvinhacking5777]

Are you a boiled frog ? And here to complain about the cajun seasoning ?

[@disobedientdolphin]

@@marvinhacking5777 Bist du behindert oder so?

[@marvinhacking5777]

@@disobedientdolphin Ya'll got some pretty funky Germanic dishes too . So I wouldn't be versneedanitzel ~ ing the message boards in your condition entweder :P

[@rcslyman8929]

Germany's blanket ban of "Patterns of Force" was simply an outright ban on any imagery related to the Nazis. Which was obviously extensive in that episode.

[@darcybrummett7004]

That one is totally understandable.

[@GabePuratekuta]

It is understandable, but why does Germany have to ruin everything?

[@trentmcmanus9423]

@@GabePuratekuta unquenchable thirst for world domination

[@GabePuratekuta]

@@trentmcmanus9423 Is that also why they had made those censorship laws that pretty much forced game publishers to change too much if they wanted to release games there?

[@233kosta]

It's a stupid policy, it assumes that individuals have no agency and no intellect, unable to see through what is obvious propaganda. This kind of extreme policy is just as likely to doom them to another evil dictatorship.

[@AeronHale]

Conspiracy was a hell of an episode even without the exploding heads and aliens...

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Yeah man. Never again did Star Trek have that amount of "David Cronnenberg" Body Horror afterwards. Well except maybe in "Star Trek - First Contact" with the Borg.

[@scottgrohs5940]

Alien,, Invaders From Mars, and Invasion of The Body Sbatchers all in one episode!

[@robertj.3383]

That was some gory shit for a tv show back then.

[@AeronHale]

Yeah lol pretty messy for it's time.

[@jimhuffman9434]

Conspiracy has got to be one of my favorites of TNG

[@PhantomGeass]

"star trek is a children's show" ... ... BAHAHAHAHA that's one hell of a good joke. No wonder why the BBC has had issues

[@Nechrostriker4]

In some ways, it is. It's a fifty-year-long production on the failings and hypocrisies of modern societies. War, Poverty, Censorship, Racism, Political Intrigue, etc. One could argue that it was created so Gene Roddenberry could say "This is the world we need. This is the world you can make."

[@MrPaulFCockburn]

When the BBC first showed Star Trek in 1969, it was in the Saturday afternoon slot traditionally held by Doctor Who.

[@rosemorris7912]

They consider DOCTOR WHO a children's show, too.

[@Olkv3D]

Right? That's like saying RoboCop is for kids, because there were toys of RoboCop made for kids(for some reason).

[@dalethelander3781]

That's why Gerry Anderson's shows UFO and Space:1999 aired on ITV initially.

[@TwinComet]

When the ban on 'The High Ground' was lifted the student bar at my university in Northern Ireland ran it on repeat for a month.

[@seanwilliams3634]

The BBC had no problems with The Jimmy Saville show.... just saying.

[@yoyo92408]

Sean Williams 🙌👏

[@PopeyeBjj86]

👊🏻🤟🏻

[@EvilFookaire]

Jimmy ran a successful childrens's show, which unlike Trek was actually a childrens' show. Popular with the precious agegroup of 35-75 year old pedo's.... they loved whenever he'd show them some children.

[@JR-lv9nb]

Fuck the bbc

[@JR-lv9nb]

Hope they all die of aids , or corona

[@Graeme_Lastname]

Aren't we so lucky that there are people around to tell us we aren't grown up enough to watch some things on TV. Imagine the horror if a show made someone think.

[@LarryLeeMoniz]

5:33 FACT CHECK: Only the original Star Trek was shown on NBC. NBC never aired Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was syndicated and shown on independent stations across the USA, sorry!

[@rogerdorn38]

Bruce S you made his point. Syndication.

[@knelson6599]

It was broadcast on my local nbc affiliate. We didn’t have an independent station.

[@speedracer1945]

Ours was on a UHF station that picked it up . UPN started with Voyager as its lead show .

[@varanid9]

@@knelson6599 I believe that's what he meant.

[@knelson6599]

varanid9 if that’s what he meant then he said exactly the opposite. So much for clear communication.

[@warggrim5391]

I visited the UK for the first time in my life in autumn of 1987. My impression of BBC at the time was that their entire programming consisted of gratuitous torture.

[@chrispalmer7893]

The BBC didn't refuse to air Conspiracy, what they did was edit out the exploding head and final parasite. They weren't watching that closely, though, because they left those shots in Shades of Grey, the Season 2 ending clip show which concludes with Riker being forced to remember all the horrible things that had happened to him so far.

[@daveboybrookes]

I remember the original UK airing and how badly the cuts were made. It just really bugged me they were so obvious! The first time I saw the scene in full was when the episode was later released in the UK on VHS unedited. To me, the series was making bold moves in the franchise, and this was no doubt one of them times. The other being the death of Tasha Yar. Making such unexpected moves was what cemented my love of ST:TNG.

[@manuelg8050]

Same here in germany

[@Ashworth6]

@@daveboybrookes Yeah I remember that screening. One moment they aim their phasers at the guy, the next his upper torso is completely missing. Hilariously bad editing.

[@nomercyinc6783]

censorship is garbage.

[@starflyer3219]

Banning the empath on grounds of violence really misses the point of the episode (and the title).

[@JnEricsonx]

Especially when you wanna cry by the end because of how much all three of these guys are ready to sacrifice each other. McCoy is a OG.

[@jamesalexander5623]

Being a Censor doesn't make you Intelligent ... It just makes you the Censor!

[@electrictroy2010]

YEAH NONE of these episodes were banned in the USA (aka a free country) .

[@Cheepchipsable]

@@jamesalexander5623 Censors need to follow guidelines - ignore those guidelines and you will no longer be a censor because someone else will have your job.

[@Cheepchipsable]

As stated, it was programmed as a kids show, plus this was about 20 year after the end of WW2. Strangely enough, people who have actually been tortured don't want to be reminded of that shit.

[@philipportelli7700]

"The High Ground" also raised some eyebrows over here as the crew discussed the differences between "freedom fighters" and "terrorists" which would be revisited on DEEP SPACE 9. Marta the Orion slave-girl was played by Yvonne Craig who was famous as Batgirl on TV and was also a trained ballerina!

[@Rockhound6165]

Yvonne Craig was one of the hottest females ever to exist.

[@dennisanderson3895]

The historical difference between freedom fighters and terrorists is, "Who won to right the history." I believe that, as technology advances, a greater focus needs to be placed on *methodology* over action. Hypothetical: A) There are are many horribly oppressive persons of position assembled B) I could mingle in closely enough and detonate a horrible device I'm wearing C1) Are there innocents near enough to be harmed by my 'valorous endeavor'? C2) If innocents *are* too near: do I care? C3) Is that sort ot of solution really the *best*?0 Can we NOT talk and reason with each other? I'll understand if the answer is "no": but if 'no' - what hope does the vision hold?

[@SteveDorsett]

@Logan Waltz The only difference between terrorists and freedom fighters is who writes the history books. If they win they're freedom fighters, if they lose they're terrorists. Also whose side you're on. I'm British and refer to the IRA as terrorists, however I have Irish friends who would call them freedom fighters.

[@Zorro9129]

Sorry to splice politics into this, but it's impossible to count how many times the U.S. government sponsors "freedom fighters" who are later referred to as terrorists. With proxy and information warfare it's very difficult to pin down who's in the "right."

[@pinktribble]

Thank you! I knew I knew her face.

[@penguincommunity6218]

Kinda surprised you called that kiss between *consenting* adults - neither Kirk nor Uhura were consenting.

[@thomasn3882]

Yes, the aspect of involuntary sexual contact is much more disturbing than the interracial thing. I was far more bothered by the image of Kirk whinneying while being ridden and spanked by the dwarf.

[@Danny_Boel]

@@dietermiller8977 I guess you were the dwarf then 😃

[@2ManyGoats]

It also wasn't even the first interracial kiss. That happened in 1962 between Lloyd Reckord and Elizabeth MacLennan

[@codeoptimizationware2803]

@Darren Munsell : "but Shatner wanted the glory of it." Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) rode through the galactic-quadrant not by the power of his ship, the _U.S.S. Enterprise_ , but by the power of his libido LOLOLOLOLOL Capt. Kirk rocks! ahahahahaha so excellent hehehehehe

[@codeoptimizationware2803]

@Darren Munsell: Yeah, from many sources over the decades, albeit I read and saw those a long time ago, I'm sure I've forgotten some of the details.... Why do you ask, young man, hm?

[@ryanhegseth8720]

Don’t mention Dax, I still haven’t forgiven her for leaving the show. For a sit-com...

[@ChristmasLore]

Seems it wasn't totally her choice after all. She was harrassed by her boyfriend/husband at the time irl, whom was extremely jealous of her time and berated her incessantly while filming.

[@humansvd3269]

@@ChristmasLore she left because she wanted more money and the show wrote her off. She's said this in an interview.

[@jiaconis]

I haven’t either!! I never got into Ezri, she wasn’t a compelling character (except ‘Field of Fire’)

[@keit99]

​@@humansvd3269she wanted less episodes, essentially that jadzia becomes a recurring character and the producers just wrote her out instead.

[@julianhover5363]

Fun fact to number two: when the episode finally aired in Germany, they had completely different voices, since it has never been dubbed before. Greetings from Germany!

[@electrictroy2010]

STAR TREK TNG was not an NBC show. It was an independent show Not affiliated with any network. It was sold to local stations one at a time (called syndication). My hometown showed TNG/DS9 on the Fox affiliate (Saturday afternoon). THIS UK VIDEO HAS SO MANY ERRORS it is pathetic .

[@nevaehlumiere8019]

I do not know where you're getting your information but it was aired originally by NBC for 3 seasons. LATER, it went into syndication. This is easily verified by going online and looking it up! Duhhhh!

[@nevaehlumiere8019]

I forgot to mention that I'm old enough to remember watching the original series when it first aired. And yes... the NBC peacock would come on (spreading its tail feathers) right before the show every week!

[@jamesoblivion]

Reminds me of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. When they finally released it uncut in Germany, they just left the previously censored bits in English, since they weren't part of the initial dub.

[@jobe457]

I’m surprised the BBC didn’t ban The Siege of AR-558. That episode was dark even by DS9 standards.

[@daviddrake5991]

Is that the one where Knog got his foot blown off?

[@deepspaceninefreak]

@@daviddrake5991 yep

[@TearYouApart360]

I love Quark's talk with Nog about human's ability for savagery especially when under duress for prolonged periods of time.

[@jobe457]

Greg Frost yep seeing all the new guest stars/characters die except for one was pretty dark. Then they just get replaced with green replacements. It captured a lot of wars.

[@theGhoulman]

Why? It's a typical 'Remember the Alamo' sort of American war tale. It's pretty straight forward as a story, I don't see any controversy and in fact see it as patriotic.

[@darkguardian1314]

8:30 Nazi episode was cost savings since Hogan’s Heroes was being taped next door. 😂

[@KimberlyLetsGo]

LOL

[@colincopland3665]

BBC censors be like Sgt. Schultz... “I see... nothing!”

[@logicplague]

Funny, and most likely true!

[@peterconway6584]

@@logicplague : I get that reference!

[@jalan8171]

With such budget contrictions, Desilu studio had to get Roddenberry to produce an episode to get some use out of all the National Socialist paraphanalia & costumes taking up space in storage! Patterns of Force should be in the top 10 all-time Best episodes of ST TOS.

[@scubasteevo7013]

Thank goodness the DVDs and Netflix have all of these episodes more or less in tact.

[@DarkMoonEmporium]

"Miri" was shown once in the original run of Star Trek in the UK - I remember watching it at the time. The BBC got a lot of complaints from parents and teachers because children were re-enacting the violent scenes from the show. After that they started looking more carefully at the content of each episode. I understood that "Plato's Stepchildren" wasn't shown because of the "mind-control" element .An interracial kiss had been shown in Emergency - Ward 10 broadcast by the BBC in 1964 (and even before that in a play shown 1962) and nobody had complained. "Whom Gods Destroy" wasn't shown because of the way it dealt with insanity and "The Empath" because of the sadism in the episode. "The High Ground" contained a lot of parallels between the conflict portrayed in the episode and the actual situation in Britain at the time and was broadly sympathetic to the rebels. Mention of the IRA just made sure that everyone watching knew what the episode was referencing.

[@kendragon2012]

Hard to believe we're only four years away from Ireland re-unification.

[@hoodaticus]

@Brains00007 Brexit disrupted the organization of the world into competing continental power blocs. Now the West will have to stay united rather than disintegrate.

[@xunk16]

Congratulations!

[@hoodaticus]

@@xunk16 Did they say how it was reunified? Does the UK annex the rest of Ireland?

[@xunk16]

@@hoodaticus As far as I can tell, it is more that Brexit just offered the needed leverage to turn back the Irish toward a positive referendum. But since I'm not from there, @KenDragon might be more apt to tell. There is apparently still debate on the question. In any cases, if Brexit manages to put an end to the division of Ireland, then it will at last have done something great.

[@davidcantwell2489]

BBC should air the hanging of men and women for the wearing of the green and the atrocities of the black & tans.

[@ccbaxter47]

At 5:34 you mention that "NBC" moved this episode of "The Next Generation" to a later time slot. "Next Generation" was never on network television in the United States; it was syndicated to individual stations around the US, only a handful of which were likely NBC affiliates. I watched the original airing of this episode and it had not been moved to a later time slot the week that it aired (in Los Angeles, at least). I will admit, though, that I was shocked at the graphic conclusion of the episode when it first aired.

[@k1productions87]

is that what they called "First Run Syndication"?

[@middlelle]

I saw it on CBS. I lived in Palm Springs at the time. No later time slot or censorship.

[@monkee5th]

I used to watch Next Gen on Fox

[@k1productions87]

Y'know, that's probably why Next Gen always had such high viewership compared to DS9 and Voyager. TNG was shown on so many more channels during its run than the other two....

[@batgurrl]

Richard in NYC it was on channel 11 Not a network

[@Wildstar40]

5:05 I was always perplexed by the exploding head is this Star Trek scene. I thought phasers on their highest settings made organic matter vaporize. Well I guess they could set them to make heads explode like a bean in a microwave but why. Picard: "Okay Number One set you phaser to the exploding beans setting."

[@generalmartok3990]

I always thought the scenes where people get completely vaporized were more brutal.

[@Wildstar40]

@@generalmartok3990 Clean up crews may beg to differ lol.

[@MrAranton]

My guess is that in lore the parasites enhanced the human body significantly - including its resistance to phaser fire which is why he wouldn't just get vaporized

[@fugitiveunknown7806]

I chose to interpret it as the creatures having rebuilt Remmick mostly from the inside and made them extremely resistant to damage (and having set up redirecting the energy to unimportant bodyparts like Remmick's brain as opposed to the all-important queen). So, phaser setting "No really, kill this asshole in particular" turns into "blow this asshole up". With that thing in there taking up FEET of space, there's no way that Remmick's internal organs were really human at that point. Also, when I was 10 I thought that was really cool.

[@Hoeech]

@@MrAranton Correct. Phasers set on stun had no effect at all, while kill settings rendered the target unconscious .... and that was only if they had ONE alien parasite inside them. Remmick had several PLUS the queen bug

[@rowlandbuck2703]

The thing with “To the death” was the violence was justified. It wasn’t violence for the sake of violence. There was a real threat to both the dominion and federation, that had to be dealt with.

[@Cheepchipsable]

It was practically a documentary!

[@bhangrafan4480]

"Whom Gods destroy" did not introduce Orion Slave girls, they were shown in the pilot "The Menagerie" and the reworking in "The Cage" both of which were shown very early on in the broadcasting of ST TOS on BBC1. I know, I saw them both several times in the early 1970s.

[@samanthab.1912]

The unaired pilot was The Cage, while The Menagerie was the first-season two-parter incorporating footage from The Cage to support a following story. The Cage finally aired in 1988. The aired pilot was Where No Man Has Gone Before, with The Man Trap being the "official" first-airing of the series, at least in the U.S.

[@Voxridian]

I second what Samantha B said. The Cage was never aired until much, much later, so it would have been impossible for you to see it in the early 1970s

[@bloodfoxtriberc]

you either have bad memory or you are a liar...

[@bhangrafan4480]

@@bloodfoxtriberc ??? Try watching these episodes! As well as watching them when they were first broadcast, and many times repeated, I have the whole lot on DVD and frequently re-watch. The Orion slave girl 'avatar' of Vina became an icon of early Star Trek and was always shown on the end credits. Go take a look or be suspected of pointless trolling. I don't think you have any knowledge at all of the original ST series.

[@bhangrafan4480]

@@samanthab.1912 Yep, I got it back to front, sorry.

[@angelus4282]

Incidentally, "Conspiracy" is my favorite 1st season TNG episode.

[@Cheepchipsable]

I felt it was too easily concluded. Understandable it being the first season, but a bit anti-climactic IMHO.

[@cochrane626]

One correction about the episode "Conspiracy." NBC didn't air Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was syndicated by Paramount to independent TV stations, which chose to air it at various times.

[@erinvinson5106]

Give me your coordinates so I can beam you a Star Trek Super Nerd Ribbon, to pin on the Starfleet uniform your currently wearing right now!

[@01Mary02]

There was a scene from 'Who Mourns for Adonais'? that they cut from the end. In that episode, they come across the Greek god Apollo who falls for Lt. Carolyn Palamus. After they destroy his temple and Apollo fades away, the original script showed that Carolyn was pregnant with Apollo's baby, but it was cut because it was considered "too controversial" for the 1960s.

[@cosmictyger]

Mary wow.... so THAT’s who was imprisoned in the Galactic Core! 😉

[@nevaehlumiere8019]

Mary.... oooooooh THAT sounds interesting!!!

[@davidmitchell005]

Firstly, I was expecting Next Gen episode “Chain of Command”(a two-parter) to make the list because it reproduced key elements of Orwell’s 1984 that were definitely torture. Secondly, I’ve been watching reruns on the Pick channel at 6pm and several of these seemed to have aired without objection. The problem with the censors may not be so much the content as the backlash.

[@matthewezell1911]

Note to self: watch all of these episodes of Star Trek.

[@FelixVW]

Indeed.

[@DennisMoore664]

Skip TOS episode "Miri". It's one of those someone-sold-their-soul-to-Satan-to-get-that-piece-of-shit-on-air episodes.

[@nevaehlumiere8019]

Miri is one of my favorite episodes!!

[@DennisMoore664]

@@nevaehlumiere8019 I'm sorry. Different strokes different folks.

[@thebensisko]

That stunt double of Picard in the high ground (9:34) should have been the real reason to ban the episode. Shockingly bad even for the time.

[@geordijules]

Alternative title: 10 best Star Trek episodes

[@deathstrike]

They even allowed the TOS episode "Mirror Mirror" which shows women with bare midriffs and men with bare shoulders. Acts of torture twice with a hand Agonizer and the illustrious Agony Booth. Romanesque salutes with the right hand striking the heart with a fist then extending into an open "sword free" hand. The naked exposure of knives and weapons displayed. I could go on, but the BBC must have been asleep on that episode.

[@chbu7081]

Plato's Stepchildren was one of the worst.

[@DennisMoore664]

@Chon Connor Glad you said most. "Miri" is one that definitely falls in the not best category. The old Hollywood saying "Never work with kids or animals" really held true for that piece of crap episode.

[@DennisMoore664]

@@chbu7081 Wasn't even really a kiss - just Shatner and Nichols kind of mashing their faces together.

[@mysmirandam.6618]

Yes!

[@MattFenlon]

BBC: This is too scary and dystopian Also BBC: Lets make Threads

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Well they only made "Threads" because the Yankees had their own version earlier, called "The Day After".

[@derpimusmaximus8815]

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 And the septics needed to be shown how to do it right.

[@leeroberts4850]

@@derpimusmaximus8815 so who showed the british how to do it "right" us americans will gladly call the up to verify. Cause it looks like the septics made that pile of shit all on their own

[@derpimusmaximus8815]

@@leeroberts4850 Well, The spectics showed the world how to half-ass it with The Day After, then the British made Threads, an objectively superior work in all metrics.

[@MikinessAnalog]

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Both of those were ALMOST as bad as The Human Centipede

[@JediRevanMunro]

None of this Star Trek episodes were never banned in Croatia. I watch them in full lenght. There are no cuts.

[@hadesdescent6664]

HRT bi mogao reprizirati i TOS, mada ni ENT ne ide, a trenutno nema Star Trek reprize na 3!

[@JediRevanMunro]

RTL Kockica prikazuje TNG, ali ja bi volio da HRT prikazuje TOS, TAS i ENT (prikazivli su: TNG, DS9 i VOY) i sve filmove. Najboljj su I - X, ovi novi su osrednji.

[@FOertel]

Yeah... to be fair tho... if a country gets an episode that has long since aired in a bunch of other countrys its less likely to ban it (its always the "new" that gets banned after all) "Rejoined" and "To the death" are therefore the only episodes that could matter for croatia (though i doubt they aired at their original airdate in croatia in the midst of the war), since it wasnt an independent nation while most of this episodes had their original airing.

[@hadesdescent6664]

@@FOertel they Aired "Rejoined, & To the Death"

[@FOertel]

@@hadesdescent6664 I looked it up at imdb (best source i could find about it) and they didnt. DS9s first release in Croatia was in 2004, both episodes already had been out for a almost a decade in other countries by then. (I mean, that they aired it at some point and you can watch it now is obvious, but i talk about the time when it was new, since that was the time when it would be "scandal" or whatever :D)

[@sybo10]

I've seen everyone of these episodes, more than once.

[@gelertgames]

More than once lol 😆 I bet you're as bad as me watching it if its on...then the repeat in the morning....DvD's and KZbin not to mention the other fixes we can get 😉

[@henrycbrennan]

Good video. The “No shirt no shoes no service.” joke was pretty funny.

[@guitarguyjones]

I just saw Conspiracy for the first time recently and even in 2020 that ending was *shockingly* gory. Star Trek violence is usually so clean, I was totally unprepared for it.

[@christelheadington1136]

I thought the bug/aliens crawling in and out of their mouths was more gross.

[@thebensisko]

It always aired in its entirety here, since I was a kid. And it scared the hell out of me back then. Still kinda does.

[@jakeapplegate6642]

I rewatched TNG recently and I was a little shocked by the gore in that episode. There is nothing else in the series that really compares. It is comparable to the face melting in raiders of the lost arc, not the kind of thing you expect to see on network television.

[@DefSquadFan]

I think Picard eating that half born bird was just as bad.

[@gregmiller9710]

..wow...you Brits were over protected....

[@MrEtherguy]

They still are, go ahead and plop that in a search engine - "Arrests for offensive Facebook and Twitter posts soar in London"

[@grimdadminiatures2788]

And yet we've got it sussed now better than most

[@cologne2792]

It's because the BBC still thinks its 1957

[@marilynman]

the days were you sang lullabies to your children about witches in the forest and how they got beheaded for killing children, and so on... are gone now. Society is full of pussies now.

[@middlelle]

Yet they show bare breasts, and we only allow it in the US on pay channels.

[@robovoid8024]

lol really and it was the British who created Benny Hill and the green lady was to risky what joke.

[@Kaldriss]

Benny Hill was never a meant to be a childrens show, which at the time the BBC classed Star Trek as.

[@jmurphy6011]

Too for too much of something. And risqué, not risky.

[@blethigg9320]

The BBC didn't create the Benny Hill show.

[@VCYT]

ITV showed benny hill, while the bbc had to comply with gov regs more so.

[@speedracer1945]

It was because the green lady was Batgirl.

[@Mambaru]

The first interracial kiss on TV was "You in Your Small Corner," in 1962. A televised play in the United Kingdom.

[@thrashmetaldave]

There was also been an interracial kiss in Emergency Ward 10 in 1964, again shown on British tv, with no scandal or uproar. And Americans still take the credit for being first 🙄

[@thischannelwillselfdestruc4977]

The IRA stuff wasn't because of Irish Unification, it was because they were discussing 'terrorism that worked'. They were saying that the IRA's actions caused Irish unification.

[@DanBen07]

You said tos "who god's destroy" introduces us to Orion slave girl. But there in s1 menagerie .

[@johnnysizemore5797]

@Dan 23 -- ah, but "Menagerie" only had her on screen for less than 2 minutes i believe. "Who God's Destroy" had her in it almost the whole episode untill her death(like almost all women who hooked up with James T.), so technically it was the Orion's first full appearance...

[@marccolten9801]

@@johnnysizemore5797 That's kind of a stretch. More to the point was Menagerie ever seen before the other episode? It was like a lost episode until the stitched together show.

[@johnnysizemore5797]

@Marc Colten-- true, it is a bit stretchy. And i THINK the Menagerie was after Who God's destroy, but i'm uncertain as they always messed up airdates for TOS episodes....

[@colinp2238]

This girl's costume was more revealing.

[@k1productions87]

@@marccolten9801 Not quite - The Menagerie WAS the stitched together episode, and it was in the first season. The Cage was the lost episode. I think the difference is, Vina was just dancing on stage with musicians playing behind her, so it was more of a performance. Marta was gyrating for Kirk right up in his face, snogging him later. We never actually saw Vina and Pike kissing, did we?

[@Lax_Axl]

The Icarus Factor? Really?? That worf scene was so tame lol.

[@isaned]

Shows how good an actor Michael Dorn is. He was truly convincing that he was being hurt, even though it probably tickled him more.

[@Cheepchipsable]

@@isaned Um, I doubt there was any kind of irritant on the sticks at all.

[@deezimmo4814]

We always called Deep Space Nine as "Deep Sh*t Time" as they were always in some kind of trouble.

[@cltnc571]

Conspiracy was the episode that sold me on TNG. When that head explodes the series became my favorite.

[@MGSBigBoss77]

Agreed, i was sad they didn't continue which that storyarc of a conspiracy within the Federation. Roddenberry vetoed those concepts cos he disliked the idea of the Star Trek universe not being a complete utopia in the 23rd Century (see Gene Roddenberry and why his disliked Meyer's more military take on Wrath of khan and Undiscovered Country) the Federation should be beyond anything like a conspiracy within its Starfleet branch.

[@erikleorga]

Scared me as a child. Still can't watch the episode to date.

[@chrissiemacalister6835]

In fact "Miri" WAS shown the first time Star Trek was broadcast on BBC1. I know because I watched it fron the very beginning in 1969. I always wondered why it wasn`t shown in re-runs on the beeb, until years later I found out it was considered too shocking! It wasn`t until I got the series on VHS that I saw The Empath and Plato`s Stepchildren. Thank you BBC! Considering some of the disgusting things that happen in their own productions, which have been getting steadily more graphic down the years, that old saying comparing pots and kettles comes to mind.

[@Hoeech]

That "kiss between consenting adults" was anything but. Both Kirk and Uhura were being telekinetically forced to perform for the amusement of their captors. There was no consent on either of their parts

[@mikeholton9876]

both actor and actress agreed to the kiss, ignore the telekinetic forces as they really were not in play on the set. besides, real life earth interracial kisses had long since been performed, for both love and lust centuries before.

[@BeardFaceSuper]

@@mikeholton9876 You're missing the point entirely, idiot.

[@menacelurkingyet8345]

Their characters, no, but the real-life actors consented to it.

[@GusMcGuire]

The BBC didn't refuse to air the TNG episode Conspiracy (I remember watching it during it's initial run). They showed the part with the head exploding - but the alien coming out of the guy's chest was cut from the broadcast episode. I only saw that for the first time when I bought the episode on VHS and it was definitely an eye-raiser for a Star Trek episode. The High Ground wasn't banned for simply mentioning The Troubles. it was banned because Data said the reunification of Ireland was an example of when terrorism had been SUCCESSFUL - not a message the British Government would have wanted transmitted to UK viewers during such tense times.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Germany cut it even harder. You saw this little creature climbing up Remmick's arm and CUT he already looks at Riker and Picard as and starting to say his lines while his neck pulsates. As Picard and Riker shoot him with their phasers and Remmick collapses on his seat.,... they cut and the next thing we see is the enterprise flying by and Picard speaking in his captains log. It always felt weird. Because you never knew where the creature crawled and why his neck suddenly pulsated. You didn't see him swallowing that darn thing.

[@리주민]

Well, terrorism did work for American independence 🥁

[@stasiaspade1169]

@@리주민 And for Israel's.

[@GMMjbtisegg]

I definitely remember watching Miri in the early 1970s, it scared the crap out of me.

[@susanhamptonva4203]

I don't like the episode. I skip over it.

[@tomnorton7817]

"The Irish reunification of 2024"... I mean, in a post-Brexit decade, this isn't _totally_ unimaginable now...

[@borgCube100]

It’s scary how close it is tbh

[@mickeythompson9537]

Spot on, give or take a year, I'd say!

[@walsingham-xxiii]

Yes. There is a distinct possibility the Republic will seek to join the United Kingdom.

[@tomnorton7817]

@@walsingham-xxiii LOL

[@OpeningSalvo]

@@walsingham-xxiii If we wanted to end up knee deep in the cluster fuck that is Brexit, then yes...I'd say I have to agree.

[@disobedientdolphin]

Small correction: Patterns of Force was available fully dubbed and with original audio and subtitles in 1996. 2011 was only the first appearance in the "Free TV".

[@inflxshn6175]

I've always felt that Conspiracy was the most unique Star Trek episode ever. It definitely deserved a follow through.

[@lindawilliams4580]

Indeed. We kept hoping for such throughout the series run, and then on into DS9. alas, it was never made so...

[@estebanavelar4118]

Iike most TNG it made an impact during my early teenage years

[@BedsitBob]

Even though I was very young when I first saw it, I really wanted to be Jim Kirk, in the episode Plato's Stepchildren.

[@Matt-nw2te]

Fun fact: Season 1x03 of Andromeda went ahead with the concept of “Miri”

[@jmike2039]

You dont need a 10 minute cheeky intro; none of your employees will ever be Adam Blampied.

[@PandastreifenASMR]

the swastica iThe swastika is forbidden in Germany. (History isn't.) It was meant to deter neo-Nazi groups and make it harder for them to show themselves. There are other reasons, but that is why shows or games with the swastika are banned. (It has to be in a historical, non-glorifying context to be legal.) So, for example, we can see Schindler's List on TV, but other content with the swastika needs to be censored or reviewed.

[@LiebensteinMovies]

About "Patterns of Force" is a good point. It even was not syncronized (with German voices) like all other. So it was the first TOS episode I saw on Austrian Television ORF in the 90s in Original language. That was premiere of this episode in German speaking TV. But there is a little more. All TOS episodes are cut down about a few minutes to match into German television sheme. The cutted scenes were not syncronized. In the 2010s the show was recreated with better CGI effects and with that the cutted scenes come bach into the episodes, but with other syncron speakers. So it is easy to recognize the missing scenes because the voice is changing, even it is only a little bit, because they have done a real good job with that. Also the episode with Spock and his sexuell problems was changed through translation to a special vulcan fever without any sexual background. And last but not least the tone of the show in German was more funny, so Spock was often called "Spitzohr" (pointed ear) and many other things. Even when you don't believe it about what you have heard about German humor many syncronized shows became more funny in German TV. Best example is the British show "The Persuaders!" (Die Zwei) with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. This comedy made it a bigger success than in any other country.

[@pwnmeisterage]

Mister Spitzohr (or is it Herr Spitzohr?) ... that is funny.

[@deviantaffinity1626]

I so want to hear Picard say, "Make it so!" in German.

[@mrcydonia]

8:35 They were most definitely not *concenting* adults for that kiss.

[@Sabreman64]

Indeed. Kirk and Uhura did not consent to the kiss. They were forced to kiss by the Platonians.

[@monalovejoy6341]

The kiss between Cook and a horror novel happened. Jane Waterbury world in his book about that scene. That scene is fake fake fake. The kiss never actually happened.😢😢

[@johnburt7935]

@@Sabreman64 I always wondered if the kiss being involuntary had anything to do with its being interracial -- that is, did they think it would be easier to get away with because "they made us do it!" . . . ?

[@Soulsphere001]

@@johnburt7935 That's an very interesting thought.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

@@monalovejoy6341 Wow... You ridin' a bad hayride there, girl. You snort that shit in "Up In Smoke" Or Something? Ajax? I think you must also be a TRUMPANZEE© You need to up your Thorazine dose. Say about 400mg a day oughta do it.

[@MattFergusonmwfergo]

Thanks WhatCulture for presenting two of my fav things: Star Trek and Wrestling

[@k1productions87]

Now we just need to include anime and video games, and I'll be golden :P

[@windsweeper8002]

Fun fact: The Rock appeared in an episode of Voyager.

[@kerrykrishna]

TrekCulture, you should consider getting a pop screen for your mic. Better audio means a better video. I am enjoying these vids of yours too. I am subscribing too. Thanks!

[@TheDetailsMatter]

One episode that was banned in the United States for syndication rebroadcast for decades, was The Omega Glory. Something about the Yangs (yankees) losing the war and reverting to savagery while the Comms (communists) retained civilization and flourished, was just too radical a concept for many local broadcasters to stomach.

[@JosephDickson]

Alarming how the BBC and American television have swapped sensibilities since these episodes have aired.

[@haydenmack3784]

How so?

[@oneblankspace4919]

Other than Amy and Rory, or characters from a previous generation, can you name a couple on New Who with a white man and a white woman who are both human?

[@damianjblack]

@@oneblankspace4919 The Doctor and River Song. Technically neither of them are 100% human but they both look it.

[@Ostsol]

2:14 Random trivial: the green girl in that episode is also 1960s Batgirl. 🦇

[@philadelphiawhovian5641]

she was so GORGEOUS! And could dance incredibly well. as a woman, i watched her and said 'darn, i wish i had those moves'.

[@94Cobra123]

I'm Adam Cleay from What Culture Wrestling. Anakin Skywalker also wants the High Ground episode banned.

[@All2Meme]

I see what you did there...

[@GiftSparks]

Green Orion Slave Girls were actually introduced in the 1st Season 2-part Episode “The Menagerie” as one of the forms that Vina took when she was with Captain Pike. Whom Gods Destroy is a 3rd season episode.

[@TheSchmed]

2:20 Kirk becomes Quaid and dreams of Mars. “I’ll see you... at the party... Richter...”

[@valecrassus7835]

7:56 Fun trivia: That Klingon is played by John Tesh

[@리주민]

And more blackface. Or is it alien face? Can a white guy now dress as a TNG klingon (they're all black)?

[@north4986]

The first appearance of an Orion slave girl was in first season episode "The Cage".

[@Magnulus76]

Perhaps, but it was a test pilot episode not part of the full production run of a season.

[@jamesoblivion]

@@Magnulus76 The Menagerie was, though, and features the Orion slave girl scene from The Cage.

[@teresafinch7790]

It's really odd being told aI never saw episodes I remember seeing.

[@AlanCairey]

It's times like this that I'm thankful for the VHS and DVD release of the shows.

[@Lyraa357]

The original a kids show? What dubious mad assessment was that!? The Empath is my number one favorite episode of the original series. It certainly underscored how loyal and self sacrificing the trio were and wanting to display the best of human traits instead of the worst where fear, cowardice and hatred rule the day.

[@colinp2238]

At the time of TOS we had a woman called Mary Whitehouse, a very zealous Christian woman that thought she had a god given right to dictate to the British public what they should see on TV. She was backed by Lord Longford, a member of the Board of Censors and a friend of Myra Hindley, one of the Moors murders of the period 1963-65. Those were the type of people we had to deal with back then.

[@johnburt7935]

Good grief, I had to look up Myra Hindley and the Moors murders. I thought surely she was involved as one who had sensationalized the murders in some contemptible fashion, similar to how newspapers and politicians had distorted the so-called "Yorkshire Ripper" killings, thereby long delaying the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe. But . . . no.

[@johnburt7935]

@Klausbärbel Fömm Sadiq Khan is a "pre-civilized invader parasite"...? Wow. Colorful (no pun intended).

[@andrewairvine]

[Request] Star Trek Wrath of Khan deleted scene. the scene where Khan and his crew go on board the science station and torture the science crew. (from what I remember it was broadcast on TV and I never found it since).

[@wayneclayton5426]

Don't want to ruin your list, but in the early 80's as a child I watched Miri & Plato's Children on BBC2 at tea time.

[@Devgal89]

When is "tea time"?

[@wayneclayton5426]

@@Devgal89 About 5pm GMT. I'm having beans on toast.

[@Devgal89]

@@wayneclayton5426 that's a rather interesting flavor of tea.

[@wayneclayton5426]

@@Devgal89 Thanks to the vagaries of the British language 'Tea-time' can multi-task for both food & drink.

[@Devgal89]

@@wayneclayton5426 I figured, but also was so amused at the silly concept of a "beans on toast" tea that I had to say it.

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

A favorite from my childhood was “Miri”- I just remember my older brother and sister chasing me around yelling, “Bonk bonk on the head- bonk bonk”!

[@Ben-xe8ps]

Concerning the conspiracy episode of Next Generation, it is only recently that I have noticed that this is being censored. When Next Generation episodes were shown new on Sky, this was shown unedited and continued to be shown unedited for decades in the UK and the UK VHS video releases were complete. It is only when the episodes are being shown in very recent years on SyFy that I have noticed that it has been edited.

[@jackdoyle7453]

They'd already been a several interracial kisses on the BBC before that episode. As early as the 50s so it seems unlikely that was the issue.

[@simonbutterfield4860]

Maybe it was for the scenes where Kirk and Spock were compelled to perform and Spock was forced to cry in the same scene where Kirk kissed Uhura. It seems that was deemed gratuitus torture maybe?

[@gorkskoal9315]

In the us it was, or at least that was the original reason..Meganare supposedly almost didn't make it. What with totally lunatic alians melting peoples brains and all.. What I just don't get? Two dudes, a cute, girl, or some mixture of gets vetted. But sure go for it and blow people up? season 1 was a mess. Ironically season 2 was eh. O

[@timelordtardis]

Also on a soap opera, 'Emergency Ward 10' an ITV show. I beIieve that this was the first interracial kiss on UK televison.I may need correcting on this but I think it was in the late 50s or the early 60s.

[@titanhades4331]

Probably because it was the first interracial kiss on a good show. (:

[@leytonjay]

Dax's story was important, I liked how it got under radar technically bit everyone knew exactly what the subtext was, even as a little kid I understood.

[@k1productions87]

I love how that episode aired nearly three decades ago, and yet TODAY people react to same-sex kisses on television as some radical new thing. Or maybe they just hate seeing GUYS kissing, girls kissing each other is perfectly fine

[@TheRealLaughingGravy]

@@k1productions87 BINGO! All the bros who freaked out about the gay couple on ST:Discovery would have had no objections if they'd been women.

[@g.thomashart9368]

Entertaining!!! I didn't know there were such examples of artistic timidity in the BBC, so long before they destroyed Dr. Who!!!😵

[@julieeverett7442]

well dr who and star trek have been around for about the same amount of time and had the same problems

[@buggerlugz6753]

Still think the murder at the end of TNG's "The most toys" was especially terrible.

[@estebanavelar4118]

Yes very violent

[@andy_in_colorado7060]

Yeah that was just heart-wrenching. What a cold-blooded thing to do. It allowed Data to *almost* commit an entirely appropriate "revenge murder" except he got beamed away and was all like "huh no idea what happened". 3rd season TNG really came into its own, and the entire franchise was saved. Well, until JJ Abrams lol.

[@ZuluRomeo]

It's no surprise that in the Star Trek Customizable Card Game by Decipher, the villain of that episode Kivas Fajo remains the only character card in the whole game with an Integrity value of "No Integrity."

[@ZuluRomeo]

Lots to say here. When TOS was rerun in the early 90s on the BBC, many of the previously banned episodes did make their first ever airing, most notably Miri. Sky 1 did show The High Ground on first syndicated airing, but simply cut the offending line about 2024 - a mere 5 seconds or so - with no consequence over the rest of the episode's theme of terrorism versus freedom fighting (something DS9 would cover in spades of course). The BBC did air Conspiracy in both the original syndicated airing in 1991 and its later TNG rerun in the late 90s, but these were very heavily censored. So much of the horrific denouement was cut to just reaction shots of Picard and Riker in the original airing, showing absolutely nothing of Remmick's demise beyond his neck expanding moves, and also cutting out every instance of the alien creatures physically leaving and entering bodies. In the repeat, the head exploding was restored and also parts of the alien emerging from his chest were briefly seen, but again there were obvious cuts. (Interestingly, the original running of season 2's Shades of Grey was shown in full despite actually including the head explosion scene uncut in the final montage. I hope somebody in the censorship department got fired for that blunder. 😜) I remember only the first part of the Ceremony being shown in the first run of The Icarus Factor on the BBC, including just the first tier of painstiks, but yes the BBC declined to show the rest of the scene, including Worf's final reaction of gratitude to his crewmates.

[@EastSider48215]

Ummm, no. Orion slave girls were introduced in the very first episode “The Cage.”

[@Rockhound6165]

The Cage was never aired. It was rejected by NBC as "too cerebral" so they shot a new pilot Where No Man Has Gone Before(which introduced the character or Kirk). The Cage was incorporated into the 2 part episode The Menagerie later in season 1.

[@EastSider48215]

Studa Baker: True, it never aired as a stand-alone episode. However, as you pointed out, it was incorporated in its entirety into The Menagerie, so all us Trekkies knew from Orion slave girls from the very beginning.

[@simonbutterfield4860]

@@EastSider48215 Sky did air it though when they 1st started airing TOS in 1990.

[@EastSider48215]

simon butterfield: I don’t understand your question. Star Trek aired on NBC first in 1966, not 1990. The two-part episode “The Cage”, which contained “The Menagerie”, was broadcast Nov. 17th and 24th, 1966.

[@ala5530]

@@EastSider48215 He was referring to the British cable/satellite network Sky, which started showing a run of TOS in 1990. As part of that run, they aired the original pilot episode "The Cage", as well as the two-parter episode "Menagerie". I believe they broadcast "The Cage" specifically on 8th September 1991 (to coincide with the 25th anniversary of TOS' first episode), but I would have to dig up old listings from TV guides to be certain.

[@jakemonster001]

Notice Voyager and Enterprise didn't really push anything lol

[@amead78]

jakemonster001 Voyager pushed the bounds of common sense and bad story telling.

[@eschelar]

Apparently even the censors didn't even bother watching those shows... Haha

[@joelellis7035]

@@amead78 First female captain as a main character in a series. No bounds being pushed there. But sure, there were no bad stories in any of the preceding Star Trek series, right? "Gamesters of Triskelion"? "Code of Honor"?

[@Lasukie]

Weird Enterprise didn't ruffle a few feathers with those two lads getting plastered in a stranded shuttle while talking about the desireability T'Pol's bum....

[@cockleshellzero3893]

TOS and TNG got hit so hard by the ban hammer because the BBC was crazy censorious back in the day. By the time that Voyager and Enterprise came around though, the Beeb had started to unbunch their panties somewhat. :)

[@DanielIXVIMCMLXXXI]

Star trek didn't have the first interracial kiss on television. It was a granada play of the week televised in Britain on 1 February 1959 called Hot summer night. Star trek had the first televised kiss by an interracial couple with recurring characters.

[@coldhaven1233]

"...unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism, and disease." I guess no one at the BBC ever bothered to pick up a Lovecraft novel.

[@colinbrown1236]

As Chrissie says below, 'we' did see 'Miri' on the first run-through of Trek TOS in '69/70 (that's half a century ago) and I remember watching it age 10 'just' on the Beeb - and it was after the 'clocks-went-back', so we watched this rather (then-to-me) disturbing episode on a 19" b/w set in a room after dark, with otherwise just a small table-lamp on, and it certainly left an impression on me - didn't get to see it again until 1992, by which time we were watching on a 26" CTV with stereo speakers, and it 'still' looked pretty good - I'd just turned 33

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

Star Trek introduced Orion slave girls in the original pilot, The Cage...

[@jasonkinzie8835]

Yes but the pilot didn't air until 1988. 24 years after it had been filmed!

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

@@jasonkinzie8835 As a standalone episode, that's true, but the majority of the pilot was part of the TOS episode _The Menagerie_

[@GrnXnham]

I have to admit that "Miri" gave me nightmares when I watched it as a young kid. Now this wasn't recently that I first watched the episode--this was during the 70's. Back then there weren't a lot of television shows depicting kids beating the crap out of an adult while a cute little girl looks on with an evil grin on her face. Im not saying it should have been BANNED. I'm just saying that during that time the subject matter was difficult for young children to watch.

[@shawnattwells5355]

I'm pretty sure these complaints, would have been the result of a certain Mary Whitehouse too; you know, the same overaged busy-body, who complained about everything Doctor Who did, from Cyber-men bleeding foam from their chest plates, to that drowning scene from the Deadly Assassin. Okay, I too was freaked out by the end of the ST TNG Conspiracy episode, but folks, sometimes you just got to lighten up a little.

[@1968dogg]

After DS9 Star Trek jumped the shark.

[@HobbyHillsVideos]

When I first saw the original Trek back in the late 60's I was an early teen. I never once thought of it as a kids show. It aired at 10pm PST, a bit late for most kids.

[@daviddwarmachine]

🇩🇪 Bonus information: ZDF also made TOS a child friendly TVshow. There wher 2 different voice-overs. If you listen to it on the Blu-ray Box you can sometimes hear the voice change midsentence, because they didn't got the original voice-actors for the redub. (It's still great and no one cares about it.) That made the Child-friendly version "the rarest thing to have" here in Germany (VHS only). (ZDF = Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen)

[@befilmt]

I hate the redub.

[@aaronlusanko6356]

The redub sucks, you are right.

[@aaronlusanko6356]

David Dwarmachine; Best tos episode; "Patterns of Force".

[@daviddwarmachine]

Aaron Lusanko There are to many episodes that are great (like: Patterns of Force, The Savage Curtain, Balance of Terror, Tomorrow Is Yesterday, The Trouble with Tribbles), I can't decide even if I wanted to. It also changes every time I re-watch them.

[@aaronlusanko6356]

@@daviddwarmachine I was talking about my favorite banned episode Patterns Of Force. My fav is Mirror' 'Mirror

[@kermitefrog64]

I wonder if they banned Dr. Who the same way.

[@menacelurkingyet8345]

Old Doctor Who episodes have sparked racist complaints.

[@AdmiralJT]

Nothing should ever be censored, EVER. We all have the right to choose for ourselves.

[@colinguyan9704]

So we should have porn on kids shows, in between the public executions from around the world? I do sort of agree with your point, but in reality we need some sort of censorship, although nothing should be totally banned.

[@iceman11766]

Politicians should be censored.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Actually Jadzia wasn't you know being kissed, it was the damn trill . Curzon is dead, the trill has his memories as it I has other hosts. So basically Jadzia was channeling Curzon for his widow. So to an outsider it looked like two women kissing. " Jadzia too bad you can't be Curzon". " You want to try me"?.

[@Zorro9129]

@@colinguyan9704 No one is going to let his kids watch such content wilfully and so such "kids shows" couldn't survive. Government shouldn't be a nanny state and it isn't the only determinant of what gets aired. As for public executions, it is a horrendous aspect of life but banning those just prevents understanding of what's going; it's sticking one's head in the sand. New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries have gone out of their way to imprison people and block websites merely for hosting or even _possessing_ footage of the Christchurch massacre, an action which is an alarming restriction of free speech. It does nothing to prevent violence but only puts nations closer to the status of "police state."

[@charlesmunn4844]

Hehe, the look on Worf's face as he glares into Wesley's eyes before saying, "Thank you"

[@Justin_Ebright]

LOL *"That's only because I didn't realize no shirt, no shoes, no service included pants"* is my new favorite 2020 slogan. Fits this year to a tee lol