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  • If their work was less critical it probably wouldn't be important, but this is a starship-a star-ship.

    Lawnmower Season 2010

  • “But I am picking up some indications of star-ship traffic in the area.”

    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

  • Hassett may be aboard the sister star-ship, the "American Enterprise Institute", but it's basically six fruitcakes and a half dozen banana nut breads.

    Muir Russell and the Wayback Machine EliRabett 2010

  • “Therefore, the logical conclusion would be that, once I have learned all that I can aboard the star-ship, I will relocate to Galor Four.”

    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

  • But her last mission is haunting her and the cruise star-ship on which the two men vacation is savaged by a killer, only Misha the son being allowed to survive wounded in order to send a message.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Cindy 2009

  • Given hundreds of years to reach other star systems, all kinds of other star-ship drive mechanisms become available, from solar sails to standard nuclear engines.

    We Don’t Know Everything Yet « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2006

  • Flying my way through the grand galaxy in the star-ship Enterprise on nothing more than a bic lighter and a can of WD-40.

    Think Progress » BREAKING: Libby Destroyed Evidence Prior To Testifying, Cheney ‘Deeply Involved’ 2007

  • A small community (like his city of Diaspar) might have one shared psychological flaw, but a whole world could not be so uniform; or, more specifically, if it were so uniform, no individual would arise to be so devoted to his dream as to sink the wealth needed for such a project into building a star-ship.

    INTERVIEW: John C. Wright 2004

  • I thought it would be interesting to have the player-characters suddenly discover that someone, some rich and eccentric uncle, had built the world's only working star-ship, and that they would suddenly find themselves inheriting her ownership.

    INTERVIEW: John C. Wright 2004

  • The archangel, incarnate in a star-ship, had lead humankind to the wall surrounding the fabulous garden from which all creation had stemmed.

    The Dam Across The Stars Bob Lock 2006

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