German TV boldly shows 'Nazi' Star Trek episode

[steve2470]

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111104-38661.html

An episode of the original Star Trek series in which Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock dress up as Nazis to infiltrate a far-right alien regime is to be aired on public television in Germany for the first time ever Friday night.

State broadcaster ZDFneo has evidently decided that German viewers are now ready for the episode “Patterns of Force,” 43 years after it was first broadcast in the United States in 1968.

The episode, part of the second season of the immensely popular science fiction franchise, sees the Starship Enterprise visit the planet Ekos in the M34 Alpha System to investigate the disappearance of John Gill, Federation historian and one of Kirk’s erstwhile professors at Starfleet Academy.

The Ekosians, at war with the nearby planet Zeon, are intent on wiping out all the Zeons living on their planet – and destroying Zeon itself - in what they call a “Final Solution.” The Ekosians refer to the Zeons as “Zeonist pigs.”

[msongs]

1. hogan's heros next. that program was crap in the 60's and probably still is nt

[Doc_Technical]

2. Hogan's Heros has been shown on German TV for years.

http://www.uncommon-travel-germany.com/hogans-heroes.html