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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8573730">In fairness we all knew what that episode was about when it came out. I saw that one again not too long ago. One interesting by product of wrapping it up in the alien world thought experiment thing is it ends up tackling a lot of other topics as a result. I don't know how much of that was getting past censors versus worrying about what the audience would think. I remember the show airing kind of early back when it came out because it was in syndication. I think if it had a prime time slot that was later that might have impacted what kind of content was in the show. I think I used to watch it at like 7 PM or something. But my feeling on this sort of thing is while I enjoy when shows and movies are clever to get around censorship, sometimes people do this weird thing where they will hold episodes like this one up as a reason for why censorship can be good (because it adds a constraint that forces people to be more creative). Personally I think we are much better off when shows are free to explore what they want to explore. But this episode does stand out as one of those interesting ones that takes a creative approach for dealing with something that might not have been able to be handled as directly at the time (I do remember shows and made for tv movies having gay characters at that time so I suspect this may have been more of a time slot and audience issue than actual censorship---but I don't know what the rules governing content were at that time even though I was watching a lot of TV then)</blockquote>

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