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Subject: "Star Trek" unsuitable? - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 16:30:00 EDT
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Reprinted from "THE OKLAHOMA DAILY", Jul 18, 1984. (without permission)

  LONDON (AP) - The British Broadcasting Corp. will not televise four
"Star Trek" episodes because they are unsuitable for children, a BBC
spokeswoman said Monday.
  The episodes are not suitable to be shown on early evening television
when children watch, said Ann Rosenberg, the network's publicity officer.
  She said the BBC received complaints after one of the four shows, 
"Miri" was broadcast.  In the program, the crew of the starship 
Enterprise saves the surviving inhabitants of a planet - all children -
where everyone dies upon reaching puberty.
  The other three episodes are: "The Empath," in which Capt. James T
Kirk and his top officers are tortured by aliens to test the psychic 
healing powers of a young mute woman; "Whom the Gods Destroy," in which
inmates escape from an intergalatic asylum and try to destroy the universe;
and "Plato's Stepchildren," in which the Enterprise crew is captured by
aliens with psychic powers.

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  What will they think of next? banning reruns of "Dr. Who" because
the Dr. has to fight someone. (no way will they do that).  Lets get
serious isn't this carrying censorship a little to far? censoring
shows that were broadcast originally from '66-'68. (I do have to
admit that these four are not on the top, or even the middle of my
list of favorite Star Trek episodes.) But this is absurd.

                         -Eric L. Smith
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