Banned Clip: Star Trek predicts United Ireland in 2024

Clip Banned in UK. This clip is taken from an episode called 'The High Ground'. The result of this short conversation, and the general theme of the program being centred around insurgency as a means to achieve freedom, led to the BBC (The British Broadcasting Corporation- Britain's national broadcaster) and Sky TV (a Satellite Broadcaster) putting a ban on showing the episode.

When Sky did show the episode they cut the part about Irish reunification in 2024. In Ireland on RTE (Raidió Teilifís Éireann-Ireland's national broadcaster) the showing of the full episode came with a warning describing the content as "Fictional and Aspirational."

The complete episode was only shown for the first time on the BBC in September 2007, Sky TV soon followed suit and aired the full uncut episode. This was 17 years after the original air-date in the U.S. The full program can now be seen on a number of satellite channels unedited.

This ban covered the area of broadcast/transmission/coverage of the BBC (UK and Ireland), Sky TV (mainly the UK and Ireland at that time, but also including parts of Europe) the 'aspirational notice' placed on the program was by RTE (Ireland).

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Music banned by the BBC
http://thelineofbestfit.com/features/...
http://mentalfloss.com/article/50178/...
If you think the BBC have changed then follow this link to further controversy over their censorship stance from early in 2011.
http://saebpress.com/2012/02/bbc-cens...