Re: [TV orNotTV] TNG episode with "current" reference remains banned in UK and Ireland

2024-03-04 Thread Adam Bowie
The BBC's airings - or lack of airings - of the episode are pretty clear, and I think well known amongst British Trek fans. If you search old usenet posts, you'll see plenty of discussion about it from the time. The BBC's Genome site is easily searchable to find all episode airings. TNG first

Re: [TV orNotTV] TNG episode with "current" reference remains banned in UK and Ireland

2024-03-04 Thread Tom Wolper
To be clear the state of the BBC, Sky, and RTE archives is so bad that nobody can confirm it didn’t eventually air. And there doesn’t seem to be any suppression of streaming the episode in the UK or Ireland. The more egregious statement is saying Mexican independence is an example of successful

[TV orNotTV] TNG episode with "current" reference remains banned in UK and Ireland

2024-03-04 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
"The High Ground" (S3E12), written by Melinda Snodgrass, has Data at one point noting an "Irish unification of 2024"... BBC hasn't shown it since an ovemight in Sept 2007, and no one checked, at least for this article, whether RTE carried it...