J. R. R. Tolkien rather famously said something like, "Do you know who worries about Escapism? Jailors!"
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
I like it!
@readandre-read
Ай бұрын
Maybe the prison guards were afraid they'd also have to study Klingon to keep up!Everything about the episode censorship is so interesting. Great video!
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
Thanks so much! I enjoyed researching this one.
@BookChatWithPat8668
Ай бұрын
This was fascinating, Randy! Great story about your poker playing experience too! Thanks for this interesting addition to Book Trek!😊
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
I'm glad you liked my little poker anecdote. I have several others to sprin̈kle into some future posts.
@BookChatWithPat8668
Ай бұрын
@@LiterateTexan Excellent! I’ll look forward to them! 😊
@BooklessPete
Ай бұрын
Excellent video. As you say, a lot more banned Trek than I would have guessed!
@binglamb2176
Ай бұрын
Banned and censored Star Trek! Who da thunk it!
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
Hard to imagine
@JamesRuchala
Ай бұрын
Great video Randy. Carpe diem!
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
"English only at the table, sir!'
@PeculiarNotions
Ай бұрын
I guess this means that Texas state prisoners cannot read Hamlet in the original Klingon.
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
It's not exactly a cultural hotbed, huh?
@laurels7892
Ай бұрын
That was interesting. I'm surprised at what people ban and for what reason. I especially liked the English only at the poker table story. Carpe Diem! 🥳
@andrewhelm2813
Ай бұрын
I have a copy of Killing Time (the ammended version) on my shelves - I just haven't gotten around to reading it yet...a possible candidate for this year's Book Trek. 😁 Those banned TOS episodes were something of a disappointment when I finally watched them on home video in the late '80's - I thought they might be somehow violent and disturbing - Miri was passable, but nothing to write home about, Plato's Stepchildren turned out to be a particularly cringeworthy episode, (along the lines of Spock's Brain), while The Empath, and Whom Gods Destroy were real nothingburgers IMHO. The TNG episode The High Ground was banned in the UK, I gather, not so much because of unification message, but because of the parallels drawn between the Ansata terrorists in the show and the IRA.
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
The first couple dozen Star Trek Pocket Books really were something, though, weren't they?
@andrewhelm2813
Ай бұрын
@@LiterateTexan They sure were! Those first three movie adaptations, and The Entropy Effect, Yesterday's Son, The Wounded Sky... they really set the bar high for Star Trek writing. 😁
@juliemartin6101
Ай бұрын
crazy
@PipRLagenta
Ай бұрын
I am amazed that you could go on at length about the Star Trek novel "Killing Time" without telling who the author is. But maybe you have your reasons for keeping it secret.
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
Della Van Hise is the author. Just a mistake on my end, so sorry.
@seanhillman1016
Ай бұрын
I thought Killing Time was a pretty good novel.
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
I haven't read it yet, but it looks good.
@unstopitable
Ай бұрын
Too bad Klingon is copyrighted. I wonder if you could legally make a parody of various gangs--Peckerwoods, Latin Kings, The Black Guerrilla Family--speaking their own Klingon dialect (without getting killed, of course).
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
Ha! I love this idea
@superkitten7560
Ай бұрын
Am I a sci-fi nerd? No. Am I going to let an upload go by since I found you without at least giving you the watch time and engagement? Also no 😘
@LiterateTexan
Ай бұрын
You are TOO sweet! Lol, this is the first comment today that literally made me laugh out loud.
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