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- noun Plural form of
starship .
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Examples
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Tom's selection of Federation starships is just what I would have hoped it would be.
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So, EVE gets two thumbs up for realizing such an amazingly complex gaming universe, and for making it beautiful, and two thumbs down for turning it into a dreadful capitalist bore that expects me to constantly interact with PvP-obsessed teenagers who name their starships after their penises and wouldn't know "suspension of disbelief" if it cut off their allowances.
At Least I'm Not At Dragon*Con (Part Two) greygirlbeast 2008
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A race that valued the concept of “enterprise” enough to name starships after it!
Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003
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Trekkies just love our starships, which is why the Ships of the Line calendars are so popular.
TrekMovie.com 2009
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In reality, it is impossible to go faster than the speed of light, there are no "starships" or "galactic federations," and Data isn't even a real person (or whatever it is he's supposed to be).
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Now they give us * Heaven*, where the computers -- especially the ones embedded in ancient Precursor artifacts such as starships -- are more than smart enough, but people are being stupid in another way.
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"starships" creative collaborations that Mr. Shatner appears to be guiding.
DailyTech News Feed 2010
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Given what one lone starship was able to do to Nero's ship twenty-five years earlier, it would figure that a squadron of starships with a generation's worth of technological upgrades, warned and armed with shields up, could make pretty short work of Nero's ship before he could drill through the topsoil on Vulcan.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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But transporting bombs directly onto the bridge of enemy starships, or into Eridani factories, is unethical.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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But transporting bombs directly onto the bridge of enemy starships, or into Eridani factories, is unethical.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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