10 Most Inappropriate Moments In Star Trek: The Next Generation

2. An Exploding Chest

While everything on this list is labeled "inappropriate" merely by the highly-strung standards of twitchy network censors and, worse, parents who don't want little Jimmy to know what boobs are, even I will hold my hands up and say the following incident was too much for a TV-PG show.

Ultimately, nothing else here will adversely impact your kids in a way that can't merely by fixed by sitting them down and, y'know, actually talking to them - "no son, Tasha Yar doesn't want you to hit some fat rails" - but Season 1's conspiracy... well... yeah, ok, that could quite literally tramatise them.

What we have here, in the closing moments of the show, is a combusting man and the alien living inside his body. Uncovering a plot by parasitic aliens to invade the Federation, Picard and Riker are forced to kill Lieutenant Commander Remmick whose... head... explodes... when hit with a sustained phaser blast. Then with the host body destroyed, the mother parasite dissolves his chest and emerges to confront the pair, looking every inch like the nightmare fuel of an 80s body horror puppetry department it is.

NBC moved it to the 10pm slot, it carried a warning before all broadcasts in Canada, but the BBC predictably refused to air it. This is, even I will admit, probably inappropriate.