In the episode "Star Trek" "Plato of the grandchildren" (22.11.1968), Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spack (Leonard Nimoy) and D -McCoy (Degor Kelly) radiate to the nearby planet to examine the call for anxiety. They do not find trouble, but a kind of ultra -powerful hedonists dressed in classic Greek clothing. They drink wine, lounge on couches and call themselves Platonians. They also have eerie telepathic forces that allow them to manipulate others according to their will. Over the years, the power went on their heads, and they now work without morality, doing everything they want, believing they are like the philosophical kings Plato for the "Republic".

Kirk, Spack and McCoy will be immediately enslaved by Plantins, especially their leader, an arrogant hole named Parpen (Liam Sullivan). Platons, for their entertainment, will mentally force the crew of the company to act against their will. They force Kirk to behave like a horse. They force Spack to experience emotions, serious breaking for him. In the most famous stage of the episode, Platonians kidnap Uhura (Nickel Nichols) of the company and force Kirk to kiss, something that none of them want.

For many years, the rumor has argued that "Plato's grandchildren" were banned in the southern US states because of the laws on the wrong action of the area and the history of racism. It was certainly unusual that a black and white man saw themselves kissing on the mainstream American television. It turns out, however, that such racist prohibitions have not been adopted so far. Ann -BI is worried that Star Trek will receive angry letters from the southern viewers over the kiss, but they have never done so. Indeed, the general public did not bring a real reaction.

Rumor that is True: "Plato's Speakers" were actually banned in the UK for many years, not because of nothing racially motivated, but because, well, all torture and sadism in the episode were frightening.

To repeat: the kiss between William Shatner and Nickel Nichols was not as controversial as the historical rumors can believe. This brings a repetition because it has been repeated for years among the trays, and we all believed that "Plato's grandchildren" were banned in the deep south for racist reasons. Rumors of a racist ban ran simultaneously with the rumors of Shatner/Nichols as the first kiss between a black person and a white person on television. This is also not true. There are many previous cases of mutual kisses, especially Othello's 1955 production on British television that had a kiss between Rosemary Harris and Gordon Heat. "Platon Mastic" is - and this is a record that openly claims - the first time a black and white man kissed each other on American television.

In England, "Platon's grandchildren" were aimed at censorship for completely different reasons. Much of the episode includes Platonians who use their psychic forces to force people to humiliate their will. They cry in shame, while their slopes of hijackers laugh at the sadist glyp. That seems to have been far more disturbing than anything that can deal with a racist viewer.

Indeed, the BBC refused to broadcast several episodes of Star Trek during the initial run because they were too daunting or cruel. Star Trek first launched in England in 1970, and the BBC's censors removed more episodes from the series to protect sensitive viewers. We must pause to note that the BBC classified "Star Trek" as a children's program, so they were attractive to the show's violence than were for other adult programs. /Movie previously wrote about The episode "Empathy" (December 6, 1968), which was banned in the UK for similar reasons. BBC also banned episodes "Smell" And "whom the gods destroy."

"Whom the gods destroy", by accidentIt was banned in the UK not to show torture, but because Yvonne Craig performs a strip -like dance, for which the British censorship found too sexy. "Smelli" had shows of cruelty, but the BBC also hated her disturbing depictions of a deadly, rash disease. According to Article in gake dayThe ban on these episodes was still operational in 1979, even after the BBC reviewed them. In 1984, the BBC would not still take place, saying:

"The prices will be taken by the big and enthusiastic following" Old Trek ", many are minors, no matter what time of the day they are put into the program.

Creator "Star Trek", Ein Born, naturally opposed the ongoing prohibitions, pointing out that he deliberately wrote those episodes as painful, because the pain is part of the life of adults. He also knew that an adult audience had an interest in sex and violence and wanted them to see the play as he wanted. The collision seemed to have only the fact that the BBC always watched "Old Trek" as a series of children when it was never intended as such.

The episodes in question were finally aired by the British public when the "Star Trek: the next generation" debuted and began to multiply throughout Europe in the early 1990s. But then, the BBC felt that all the "Starwater Trails" deserve to be in rotation and finally released offensive episodes of the vault.