10 Star Trek Episodes That Were Banned

2. Patterns Of Force

There's not really much more I can do to explain this entry beyond simply pointing at the above image with a "well... that" look on my face but, whatever, in for a penny in for a pound.

Despite wanting to protect the precious children of the United Kingdom from violence, torture, disease, starvation, women's shoulders, and a kiss between two consenting adults, the BBC saw no issue whatsoever with an episode that saw The Third Reich faithfully recreated on an alien world, and our intrepid crew dressing us as Nazis to infiltrate their ranks.

The vast majority of broadcasters were happy to air the episode without any changes but German networks, understandably reluctant to trivialize the matter a little over 20 years removed from the end of the war, placed a blanket ban on it.

It finally did air on the ZDFneo channel in 2011, a little over 43 years after it was originally released.