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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (11)
- Spoilers (5)
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Sex & Nudity
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- some of the women wear revealing or short dresses
- All the female crew members are required to wear short miniskirts, very often their underwear is visible in certain camera shots.
- Several episodes include scantily clad women.
Violence & Gore
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- The topic of torture recurs in the show and is sometimes depicted. Characters sometimes appear mildly bloodied, bruised, and/or beaten, but overall the imagery is not explicit or gory.
- The most violent scenes are the shootout with the phasers, they work in typical Trek fashion.
- The punch and kicks look staged often and have not aged as well as other aspects of the series.
- Lots of sci-fi action violence. Characters regularly die on the show.
- However, even with the violence, there is usually never any explicit gore shown. Characters may get a little beaten up, and get their clothes torn, but they usually do not get any serious injuries, and in the rare event they do, they always manage to pull through. Very little blood.
- Some characters are "phased" and zapped out of existence, however the effects are very dated and will most likely get laughable reactions from younger viewers.
Profanity
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- Use of hell (though usually in a religious context), damnable, what the devil,good lord, what in the name of heaven
- One use of damn in the whole series (dammit Jim).
- The purpose of star trek was always acceptance where in sexism and racism are no longer issues and as such a black woman is in charge and powerful however some comments towards her gender has not aged well, her race is never brought up and seen as irrelevant in the series. Martin Luther King considered the show to be a step in the right direction.
- In one scene a person of colour male kills a white male and they describe the person of colour as "Black." Of course these days the correct term is person of colour but back then black was the preferred term and no prejudice was intended.
- Unlike most shows at the time star trek never had one true religion, some characters are christian while others are not most noticeably, Jewish and Muslim practitioners as well as fictional religions, (Made up for the show and the alien races.) the creator of the series was atheist but no atheist characters are seen in this series. Religious profanity is used twice.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- While drinking occurs no one gets drunk.
- Both of these activities are done regularly by Starfleet members, including commanders/captains/etc. However, it is done socially; no one gets drunk or high or anything of the like.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- There are some frighting scenes but not too scary
- Shocking for the time the show wasn't afraid to kill to kill off main characters this became a staple of the star trek series.
- Tense arguments about command and political strive.
- Kirk has anger problems and often smashes things etc this can be frightening due to the realistic nature of these scenes.
- Often times Phasers are set to stun and not kill but sometimes people are killed and it can often be sudden and on screen especially in the final season.
- The OST can be threatening sometimes especially during the infamous "You can't kill me, I'm part of you scene." from season 1.
- The show doesn't deal in good and evil and is morally complex although Kirk is seen as the good guy there is no clear cut good person.
- Some decisions led to massacre and war.
- Characters freeze to death, in one scene a main character does so and it is upsetting, this was especially shocking as it was the episode before the end of season 1 and no one at the time expected it.
- Kirk has mental health issues that decorate over the series.
- The characters' lives are frequently in danger, and some characters DO die.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- A crew member attempts to rape Janace.
- An episode in which women who are forced into sexual slavery (nothing shown.) Is hard to watch especially since Kirk decides if he should involve himself or if it is not his business and he may not inform starfleet if it would further endanger the women.
Violence & Gore
- Kirk accidentally murders an small child.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Often times parts of the show don't exist they are dream sequences are illusionations, some parts are not real at all and some characters never even existed, this is especially shocking when it is revealed in season 3 that a fan favourite died in season 1 and he was never there, it is even more shocking watching on rewatch and noticing the subtleties.
- Unlike Star Wars, Star Trek has always been a character based show meaning that the primary focus on the series is the character and the universe building as opposed to battles and action, that said the show has become violent at times although not in the least bloody A total of 5 out of the 9 main characters are killed or die, one in a very tragic scene attempts suicide.
