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  • Rocketship Voyager. Captain Janeway's father was a fireman whose job was to burn 'fantastic' literature and vids. However he secretly saves some of the pages and reads them to his daughter at night, fostering her love of literature and exploration.

Literature

  • In Dogs Don't Talk, Emily tells Ben that the only science fiction novel she's ever read is Fahrenheit 451, and that she liked it even though she had to read it for school.

Live-Action TV

  • The West Wing: In the season two finale, "Two Cathedrals", there's a Flashback where a young Jed Bartlet tries to ask his father about the fact the women working on campus aren't paid as much as the men, but his father is more concerned about an article Jed wrote in the school paper, criticizing a professor for censoring books, and in the article, Jed quoted Fahrenheit 451 ("If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn").

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