In Fiction
Dallas features prominently in the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October and its film adaptation.
The ship is used in a more minor role in several other Clancy books; as such, the actual ship's crew adopted the film's tagline "The Hunt Is On" as an unofficial ship's motto. For the filming in the Pacific Ocean, USS Houston was the primary submarine used. The USS Louisville was used in two scenes, the drydock scene at the fictional "Patuxent, Maryland" graving dock, and the scene where Jack Ryan is attempting to board the Dallas. According to coverage of the filming in Sea Classics magazine, one USS Dallas sailor took leave, from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, to fly to California to participate in the filming.
The USS Dallas also makes an appearance in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 mission "The Only Easy Day... Was Yesterday" and in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Small Victories".
The USS Dallas also makes an appearance in the first person shooter Video Game Duke Nukem 3D.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)