starship
Americannoun
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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
All that changes when Wim stumbles on what turns out to be a derelict starship.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
My current favorite is “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” the animated and more irreverent of the “Star Trek” shows that follows the lower-ranking support crew that handle the menial jobs on a less prestigious Federation starship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
After all, the earth itself has been called a spaceship, and the only major difference between it and a starship is the fact that the earth’s passengers ride on the outside, instead of the inside.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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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