Star Trek: 10 Most Controversial Episodes Of All Time
When a franchise has been around as long as Star Trek, it's bound to have had its fair share of touchy subjects. That being said, Star Trek is in a category of its own. Gene Roddenberry pictured a multi-cultural (and multi-planetary) utopia where everyone got along, regardless of gender, race, creed, or antennae. However, the viewers at home have demonstrated many times over the years that they may not be ready for Roddenberry's version of paradise. The offices of Paramount have more than once been flooded with hate mail. Even internally, there have been several episodes from latter-day Trek that broke with Roddenberry's view of an 'ideal' future, depicting some of the most important societal conflicts of the 20th and 21st century -under tons of latex no less- and causing much consternation amongst the very people entrusted with carrying the franchise forward. Some are beyond important, some we would like to forget, but here are ten of the most groundbreaking and controversial episodes of Star Trek: