Sentence examples for fictional spaceship from inspiring English sources
Enterprise is a fictional spaceship which appeared in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
This then promptly turned into a naming contest among Musk's followers, with some great suggestions including "Heart of Gold," which is lifted from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and which Musk said was his "favorite fictional spaceship".
The work of his family would provide the vision — and the name — for Gene Roddenberry's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who would seem to exercise some influence over the real Piccard too: Bertrand's enthusiasm for adventure, morally sound intuition and haircut seem directly taken from Roddenberry's description of the fictional spaceship captain.
On Monday, laser physicists announced they have built a real-life reversible tractor beam, an idea originally envisaged in EE Smith's 1931 science fiction novel Spacehounds of IPC and until now, only ever seen emitted from fictional spaceships and space stations, most notably in Star Wars and Star Trek.
While the laser created by scientists at the Australian National University has only moved minuscule particles distances of 20cm, a far cry from the large cargo beamed up by tractor beam fictional spaceships, it is still 100 times further than previous experiment.
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If you recognize Mr. Garlin as the conniving, perpetually henpecked manager of the fictional Larry David on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," or the voice of the gelatinous spaceship captain in the animated film "Wall-E," it's O.K. to admit that you don't think of him as just a funny guy, but as a funny fat guy.
It's part of the fictional universe depicted in the 1979 film "Alien" and its sequels; Nostromo, the spaceship freighter in the first movie, is a Weyland-Yutani vessel.
