{"id":48123,"date":"2025-09-28T04:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48123\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T04:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:59:09","slug":"why-a-star-trek-episode-referring-to-a-united-ireland-was-axed-by-rte-and-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48123\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a \u2018Star Trek\u2019 episode referring to a united Ireland was axed by RT\u00c9 and BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Episode was due to air in 1992 but was pulled following IRA bombing in London\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Star Trek character Data gave the \u201cIrish unification of 2024\u201d as an example of violence used to achieve political aims\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cf078d97-a91d-4f38-b421-2e14a709d20b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Star Trek character Data gave the \u201cIrish unification of 2024\u201d as an example of violence used to achieve political aims<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A science fiction writer says she was taken aback by the controversy that resulted in the banning of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that promised a united Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The episode, High Ground, is set in the 24th century and features android character Data looking back in time and citing the \u201cIrish unification of 2024\u201d as a successful example of violence used to achieve political aims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Episode was due to air in 1992 but was pulled following IRA bombing in London Star Trek character&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1578,61,4819,60,43,6085],"class_list":["post-48123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bbc","tag-ie","tag-ira","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}