Not just the BBC. The other day, I was watching "The Big Kids" episode of the late 1960s Dragnet series. Here's a quote from a police captain with graying hair, mulling over the incomprehensible youth of that era.
"What it boils down to is the new morality, doesn't it, a new set of values. God is dead. Drug addiction is mind expanding. Promiscuity is glamorous. Even homosexuality is praiseworthy. How you gonna fight that?"
That's the quote in the original version. But in today's syndicated version, "even homosexuality is praiseworthy" is snipped. Oh, can't leave that in! Never mind that the show was obviously made over a half century ago, and whether one agrees with it or not in the present, such attitudes were common among fifty year old men at that time. That doesn't matter; some snowflakes might get their tender little feelings hurt!
We're approaching the point where you won't be able to get original versions of books like Huckleberry Finn or Little House On The Prairie. It's inevitable. I've already seen Amazon pull works of fiction off their site which had no defamatory content, had less violence and such than other fictional stories, etc, just because the SPLC didn't like the ideas expressed in them and raised a stink.
Regarding "The Neutral Zone" -- I've got mixed feelings about that episode. Picard's disdain for the entrepreneur and the musician with the history of drug abuse was understandable for him. But the housewife/mom? She was just some poor soul who got yanked out of time against her will and didn't know what to do. Yet Picard shows contempt for all of them, as well as the 20th century in general. Great marketing decision, huh? Have the main character sneer at the audience's world and everyone in it, including all of the viewers. Gene Roddenberry at his worst.
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