Chinese authorities are known for strictly censoring newspapers, film and TV programs and they have now banned programmes and movies with story lines involving time travel as they 'lack positive thoughts and meaning'.
The guidance, issued by the powerful State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT), will deny the Chinese population of some of the best story lines ever to come from the mind of a writer. And Star Trek IV.
Some of the best movies of the 80s had Time Travel as the central theme, namely the Back to the Future trilogy which i watched recently and enjoyed as much on the 100th viewing as i did sat in a cinema in 1985.
Everyones favourite Christmas movie, A Christmas Carol, will be removed from the tv guide as will both the Bill and Ted films which are silly but have Abraham Lincoln telling us to be excellent to each other and that's pretty cool in any language. Also missing will be films such as The Time Traveler's Wife, Planet of the Apes, The Terminator, Peggy Sue got Married, Evil Dead 3 and Hot Tub Time Machine.
One of the most underrated shows on British television, Goodnight Sweetheart, was about a man who travelled between the 1990's and the East end during WW2 and Dr Who skips across the time space continuum as do Time Squad, Tru Calling and the criminally cut short First Edition.
Probably the greatest time travel programme ever featured Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to put right what once went wrong.
To deny the Chinese people the Back to the Future films and Quantum Leap must surely come under some Human Rights treaty and even being spared those awful Star Trek movies doesn't begin to compensate for it.
Get on it Ban Ki-moon.
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