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
That includes her turn as starship Capt. Philippa Georgiou and her Mirror Universe doppelganger on “Star Trek: Discovery.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
All that changes when Wim stumbles on what turns out to be a derelict starship.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
Compensating for this possible disadvantage, and its smaller size, the starship would provide one important feature the earth cannot.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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
While “The Mandalorian” offers an escape to a galaxy of jedi and starships, this series goes to space to look back at Earth.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
These nonrelativistic starships, enormously expensive as they would be, look relatively easy to design and build and use compared to starships that travel close to the speed of light.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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