starship
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starships
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Origin of starship
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Starring as George Spencer was James Doohan, who later found fame as Scotty, chief engineer of the starship Enterprise, in the original Star Trek series.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
In the late 1950s, he worked on Project Orion, a collaborative effort to build a starship powered by small atomic bombs.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Even when it doesn’t affect the plot directly, it’s the canvas the story is painted on, its whiteness of an intensity not otherwise seen on the screen, except in starship hallways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
“We're making a show about misfits who don't necessarily fit into a Federation starship, where they've gone to Starfleet Academy and they put on uniforms every day,” he proposes.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025
If you flew your technology-based starship into a zone where technology didn’t function, your engines would fail the moment you crossed the zone border.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
The SpaceX earnings call with Elon Musk on Tuesday night was entertaining as always and featured some ambitious plans for rockets and robots, starships and satellites.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Her love of “Star Trek” prompted her to collect replica starships and deck out her Christmas tree each year with a homemade alien spacecraft known as the Borg cube, complete with working lights.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
Players must fend off pirates, navigate strange moons, build outposts and fix their own starships in a space epic that is due out on Xbox in September after years of development and delay.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
I assumed women like Uhura – women who looked like me – had always been on the bridge of starships.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2022
And perhaps the symbol on the bow of one of the first starships would be a dodecahedron, with the inscription “Starship Theodorus of the Planet Earth.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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