Star Trek is more renowned for its fantastical sci-fi storylines than its political commentary, but one particular scene had TV executives on edge. The 1990 episode, which aired in the USA but was prohibited in Britain and Ireland for 17 years, featured Starship Enterprise character Data predicting that Ireland would achieve "unification" by 2024, albeit through violence. Sinn Fein 's new Northern Ireland leader, Michelle O'Neill, has made her own forecast, asserting that a referendum on Irish

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