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
The voyages of the starship Enterprise will include a 5½-mile stretch in Pasadena on New Year’s Day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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
I once got to sit in a suite on the 50-yard line at the glistening new starship of a stadium in Los Angeles.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
An inflatable solar system hung from the ceiling, with the sun and eight planets scaled to size, along with various starship Enterprise models.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
No dry-dock scenes of giant starships set to stirring theme music.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020
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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