10 Star Trek Episodes That Were Banned

6. Conspiracy

There are many ways you might choose to describe The Next Generation, but a borderline-Cronenbergian Venereal Horror is probably not one of them. That was until episode 25 of Season 1 where an exploding man and the alien living inside his body shocked audiences across the world.

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. No, really, it actually explodes. They used meat and fake blood and just blew it up on the set.

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.