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8th millennium BC

In 2268 of Star Trek: The Original Series, the crew of the starship USS Enterprise rush to stop an asteroid from colliding with a Federation world, but discover the asteroid called Yonada is actually an inhabited multi-generation ship of millions of people.

A Private Little War

On stardate 4211.4, the Federation starship USS Enterprise arrives at the planet Neural, 3rd planet in the Zeta Boötis System.

Alex Suarez

Alex Suarez is the bass player and additional keyboardist and vocalist for Cobra Starship as well as co-founder of This is Ivy League, a band created with fellow Cobra Starship member and high school best friend Ryland Blackinton.

David Brower

Most notably of Brower's children, Kenneth Brower would go on to author a number of books, most notably The Starship and the Canoe about Freeman Dyson and his son George Dyson.

Donny Baldwin

After Aynsley Dunbar left Jefferson Starship in 1982, Baldwin replaced him and joined his old band mate Thomas; he made his recorded debut with the band on the Nuclear Furniture LP in 1984.

Down in the Dumps

The story of the game is about the Blubs, an extraterrestrial family (father and mother Blub, their son and daughter, the grandparents and the pet Stinkie), who crash with their spaceship on a landfill on Earth after being pursued by the villainous Khan and his criminal associates.

Giovanna Joyce Imbesi

During the following years, she worked with a number of performers including Patti Labelle, Jeffrey Osborne, Sheila E., Toni Childs, Starship, and Andy Summers with whom she toured internationally.

Heechee

Faster-than-light spaceships that act by nullifying the mass of the ship and avoiding the implication of Einstein's Relativity Theory that states that an object becomes more massive as it approaches the speed of light.

Hitz939

Commencing broadcast on March 29, 1993 as a rock format station Hitz FM 93.9, the first song broadcast was We Built This City by Starship.

Impulse drive

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the impulse drive is the method of propulsion that starships and other spacecraft use when they are travelling below the speed of light.

Jason Evers

In 1968, Evers co-starred in the Star Trek episode entitled Wink of an Eye, about a race of aliens who exist in a hyperaccelerated time frame and take over the starship.

Jefferies tube

The term "Jefferies tube" was originally an inside joke among the original Star Trek production staff, a reference to Original Series art director Matt Jefferies, the man who designed the original starship Enterprise.

Jonni Future

His legacy to Jonni includes trappings like the fish-shaped spaceship Coelacanth, a war suit and a "universal translator" helmet that enable Jonni to communicate with Jermaal and other aliens.

Larry Laffer

Larry Laffer made a homage-type cameo appearance in the Spaceballs: The Animated Series episode "Grand Theft Starship" and was referenced by Charles Stross in Asimov's Science Fiction.

Love Among the Cannibals

Love Among the Cannibals is an album released in 1989 by rock band Starship.

Martin Page

Page's partnership with Taupin yielded the hit singles "We Built This City" (Starship) and "These Dreams" (Heart).

Mary Jo Pehl

She has since starred in the science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie as both Captain Beth Ingram of the Starship Bridgebuilder and the voice of the computer Westwick Main.

MirCorp

MirCorp and RSC Energia were the first to use this strategy for space exploration, which has emerged again more recently with Sir Richard Branson’s announcement to market Scaled Composites StarShip suborbital flights.

North Toronto Players

H.M.S. Starship Pinafore: The Next Generation is a Star Trek adaptation of two famous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (HMS Pinafore and Trial by Jury).

Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", song by Starship from No Protection and the 1987 film, Mannequin

Orange Drive Miami Beach Music Festival

The talent for the 2011-2012 includes high-profile artists such as Grammy-winner Cee Lo Green, Jason Derulo, Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes, 3-time Grammy-winner Ne-Yo, Pete Wentz (former member of American band Fall Out Boy) and his band The Black Cards, Grammy-award winner Jermaine Dupri, DJ Samantha Ronson, DJ Irie and 4-time Grammy-award winners Boyz II Men.

Peter Keys

After dropping out of Berklee Peter moved to the San Francisco Bay area and began playing and recording with many notable musicians including Jay Lane (Primus, RatDog), Sam Andrew (Big Brother and the Holding Company), Peter Tork (The Monkees), Marty Friedman (Megadeth), Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) and Bill Spooner (The Tubes).

Plenty series

The main character is Tabitha Jute, a space pilot from Luna and owner of the starship Alice Liddell.

Robert April

When Roddenberry submitted his first proposal for Star Trek to MGM Studios in 1964, his name for the starship commander was "Robert M. April" (another name, Captain James Winter, was also considered).

Samuli Torssonen

Torssonen himself acts in the Star Wreck adventures as main character James B. Pirk (named after the Star Trek character James T. Kirk), captain of the starship C.P.P. Potkustartti (Kickstart).

Sith

Knights of the Old Republic begins with Revan awaking on a starship under attack.

Slick Aguilar

When Paul Kantner reformed Jefferson Starship in 1992 he hired Slick to as the band's lead guitarist, a position he held until 2012, when he had to depart the band due to falling ill with Hepatitis C.

Smartship Friday

Smartship Friday is a fictional starship in the Marvel Universe.

Something Is Out There

He learns that the crimes are being committed by a monstrous alien insectoid prisoner known as a xenomorph, possessing shape-shifting and physical possession abilities, who has escaped from an alien prison starship passing by the solar system, and he teams up with a beautiful medical officer from that ship, Ta'Ra (Maryam d'Abo), to track the villain down.

Stade Lamine Guèye

Stade Lamine Guèye was built in 1986 by the French-owned construction company We Built This City - named after the popular American rock song by the same name popularized by Starship.

Star Fleet Battle Force

Star Fleet Battle Force is a card-based starship combat game system, produced and developed by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. It allows fast-paced multiplayer combat between vessels of various factions in the Star Fleet Universe, such as the Federation, the Klingon and Romulan Empires, the Gorn Confederation, Kzinti Hegemony, Tholian Holdfast and Orion Pirates.

Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

The Rebel Universe concerns a 100 light year diameter volume of space where every Federation starship that enters ends up mutinying and defecting to the Klingon Empire.

Starship Children's Health

Besides the main building, Starship has outpatient clinics for the Auckland region in Tamaki, West Auckland and North Shore City, as well as being associated with approximately 45 Outreach Clinics throughout the country.

Starship Lullaby

The music video for "Starship Lullaby" was shot at Starship Hospital New Zealand.

Starship Regulars

Starship Regulars was an animated Macromedia Flash cartoon series created by Simpsons producer Rob LaZebnik for Icebox in 1999.

The Fireclown

He takes them out in his specially designed starship The Pi-Meson and shows them at incredibly close quarters, the sun's Corona.

The Uplift War

The Gubru, a conservative and somewhat humorless alien race, attempt to hold Garth hostage in an attempt to learn more about the discovery that the dolphin spaceship Streaker made in Startide Rising about the Progenitors.

The Yes Album

According to Alice Cooper on his radio show Nights with Alice Cooper, Anderson claimed to have written the first two movements of "Starship Trooper" alone, though the "Disillusion" movement (which evolved from an earlier song "For Everyone", heard on Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970 and The Word Is Live) is credited to Chris Squire.

Tim Gorman

Gorman stayed with Jefferson Starship as a permanent member until 1995, appearing on the live album Deep Space / Virgin Sky and playing on two tracks for the studio album Windows of Heaven.

Tricia O'Neil

She portrayed the first female captain of an Enterprise-series starship (NCC-1701-C) in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987, syndicated), in the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" and the Klingon Kurak, in the episode "Suspicions" (1993).

Ukiah Oregon

He rebelled against the Ontongard, sabotaging the invasion mission and ultimately leaving most of the personnel stranded in suspended hibernation in the starship on the surface of Mars.

Von Braun

The VonBraun, a fictional faster-than-light starship from the 1999 personal computer game System Shock 2

What About Love

Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas, co-lead vocalists of Starship at the time, provide additional background vocals on the song.

Who Watches the Watchers

The Federation starship Enterprise, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, arrives at the planet Mintaka III to resupply and repair a Federation outpost being used to monitor the Mintakan people, a proto-Vulcan race near a Bronze Age of cultural development.


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