NC17

[watervole]

Am I the only person out there who sees the letters NC17 and thinks of the Starship Enterprise?  (NCC-1701)

The letters in themselves belong to an American movie classification system and the rating is apparently the equivalent of the UK 18 rating.  (I just looked it up in Wikipedia)

Comments

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Do American teenagers mature a year earlier, then?

[naath.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that NC-17 meant "no-one 17 or younger" - but I may be wrong.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

It originally meant No Children under 17, then they moved it a year to to no one 17 or younger.

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

Heh. Apparently they're think it's great to show their 17 year olds all the adult stuff, but make them wait until they're much older until they can do it themselves (such as drink alcohol, and all that is fuelled by it). :)

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

There once was a rating one pace beyond NC17 which is X. NC17 was
created for mature but not graphically sexual content. It was decided
17 and over was appropriate for that. When X was dropped, it was changed to mean "everyone over 17", although most theaters don't check ID if you look over 16 and/or are with an older group.

[meltinthemist.livejournal.com]

*grins* I think of Enterprise too. xD

[dumain.com (from livejournal.com)]

Well with all the Kirk/Spocking going on and the American attitude to sex I'm surprised the enterprise received an NC-17 classification.

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

What is the "American attitude to sex"?

Last I looked, there were 300 million of us and we can't even reach consensus on which branch of the executive to impeach first. lol

[dumain.com (from livejournal.com)]

See Janet Jackson..

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

Every poll taken shows the vast majority of Americans didn't care about that whole thing. Bush played it up for his right-wing reactionary base, but no one else gave a damn. You'll remember we re-elected Clinton after all the "infidelity" stories came out. That's when Diebold bought the voting machines. :)

The majority of us have perspectives very much in line with Canadians (remember, y'all like Canadians). ;)

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think of the Enterprise and I was never a Trek fan!

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

I *love* Star Trek, and the fact that I was very well aware of the American classification, and not at all of the connection with the Enterprise, is rather revealing! :)

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I knew, even as I typed it, that the combination of letters and numbers looked familiar...

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Yes, at one time I thought it was a cute way of classifying star trek slash which had been adopted by other fandoms. Boy was I shocked to find it was mainstream in America.

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

No, Charlie Wise had it as the registry number of the spaceship Utopia Unlimited in the short-lived comic book series of the same name (part of the XXXenophile collection).

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