TNG episode banned on Sky or BBC ?

User45701

I know this is very old news but i was wondering is the ban lifted?. I cant even remember what chanle it was on.

Either Sky or BBC Banned the episode of TNG when a rouge federation ship starts attacking cardassions, then Enterpise goes after them, Obrian beams onto the ship cause he is very old friends of the Captin.

They sing irish rebel songs and that was frowned upon and banned by one of the above 2 channels.

bizmark

wasnt sky one anyway seeming i seen that ep on sky only a few weeks/months ago

Stark

They ban Irish rebel songs yet they allow Fairhaven (voyager) and that TNG episode where they find two cultures - one advanced and into cloning, the other into straw, whiskey, old irish accents, not bathing and feeding pigs to be shown?

bizmark

their english what do you expect :rolleyes:

i hate those sterotype "irish" bull**** ERRRRRRRRR

Mantel

What was the name of that episode? I'm fairly sure I haven't seen that one yet.

Stark

"Up the long ladder" in Season 2.

User45701

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68478.html

Its a decent episode one of the better epsidoes

According to startrek.com its not called up the ladder

DMT

"The High Ground"

From http://www.dvdscan.com/stng3.htm

Star Trek® also became a political issue again: Some 25 years after "Patterns Of Force" was indexed in Germany for its reference to a nihilistic culture that had taken up the goal of the Nazis another episode stirred a lot of attention - this time at the BBC. The episode "The High Ground" (in which terrorists take members of the Enterprise crew hostage in an effort to force the oppressive government of a world that is supposed to join the federation to accept their demands) was found to be too closely related to matters on Earth - British powers-at-be didn't want to see sympathy developing for the cause of the IRA in Northern Ireland on their "Telly". The episode was first aired after the Good Friday accord.

User45701

Thankyou for that i had forgotten about that one.
But i am still fairley certan that the episode i mentioned above was banned aswell, but only on 1 of the 2 channels SKy or BBC

Edit: Yes it was just BBC because they are owned by the State and Sky is privite

bizmark

They more than likely banned that ep because data said something like "Terrorism does sometimes work such as the Irish unification of 2067" or something

i though it was a nice bit of real world politics added in myself .....understandable if the brits though otherwise seeming they where being bombed at the time

User45701

Yes and data also said the Irish unifacation was one of the most brutal conflicts involving terrorism, or somethign to that effect.

I Did always like that quote

Woden

i've seen that episode of tng aired on sky one alright years back when i watch TNG regliously. there was also however another episode of star trek TNG that i had never seen until i bought the VHS refits. i'm not sure if i missed everytime the re-runs where or if it wasn't aired

it was called the vengence factor season 3, and i'm pretty sure i didn't see it until i got the video

User45701

That was aired several times on sky 1, not a great epsidoe

Gummy Panda

Data,

What was the vengence factor episode about? (i'm not great with episode names).

Woden

there ya go synopsis here

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68420.html

Gummy Panda

Ah i remember that. Only seen it a few time son skyone.