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See also: star-drive and star drive
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From star + drive. From the ability of the drive to propel the vehicle to the stars.
Noun
[edit]stardrive (plural stardrives)
- (science fiction) a device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances
- Stardrive section of a Galaxy-class starship. [1]
- Memory Alpha, Secondary hull, 2005
- Atlantis, utilizing its star drive, was able to travel from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Pegasus Galaxy, a distance of between 3.26 and 3.5 million light years. [2]
- GateWorld, Stardrive
- Scorpio is damaged in a collision course with a[sic] asteroid and the Scorpio crew require a star-drive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run all Federation pursuit ships [3]
- IMDB, "Stardrive"
- Nebula moved back to her main console and looked to the stardrive unit's monitors immediately discovering the grim truth. [4]
- iUniverse, "The Godmaker Legacy: The Derelict: A Novel", Kirkland D. Casey, 2003, pp.171, →ISBN
- The StarDrive was discovered on the planet Centaurus [5]
- NESFA Hymnal, "Reminder", B. Coulson, 1976, pp.12
- no star drive yet devised could produce that kind of acceleration [5]
- "Orbitsville Departure", B. Shaw, 1983, pp.190
- Every race they met on their way through the Core had a 'star drive based on a different theory. [5]
- "Light", M.J. Harrison, 2002, pp.135
- The voice of the Organic Computer began counting down the seconds until the star drive was cut [5]
- Amazing Stories, "We All Died At Breakaway Stations", B.C. Meredith, 1969
- Man's horizons exploded to the rims of the universe with the perfection of the star drive [5]
- Astounding SF, "Blood's Rover", C. Oliver, 1952
- They'll know the principles of the star drive in a few more generations [5]
- Astounding SF, "Genius", P. Anderson, 1948
- We will have to wait until they move off. I should be able to calculate their direction and get a rough idea of the distance from the power signature when they activate their Stardrive [6]
- Aliens, "Guardian Generations", Clive Osborne Rapley, 2010, pp.67, →ISBN
- When they engaged the Star Drive to escape, the hunter mine had closed to ninety metres, inside the Star Drive's field of influence. [7]
- Trafford Publishing, "Origin: The Heritage Files - Phase One", Roger Hydes, 2008, →ISBN
- —or century: humans can endure star-drive! [8]
- Arc Manor, "The Colors of Space", Marion Zimmer Bradley, 2008, pp.97, →ISBN
- He was also beginning to lose faith that the recently recovered and bizarrely incoherent Ehrehin was really capable of delivering a working singularity- powered stardrive prototype any time in the foreseeable future. [9]
- Simon and Schuster, "The Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do", Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, 2007, pp.434, →ISBN
- Whatever kind of creatures they were, and whatever the disaster that threatened their planet, they had a star-drive to take them out of the solar system to another star. [10]
- Prologue Books, "Scavengers in Space", Alan E. Nourse, 2013, →ISBN
- What could be gleaned from study of the landing craft was as far from the stardrive as their first steam engine had been from that spaceship itself; there was no chance of premature contact with other races. [11]
- "The Far Side of Evil", Sylvia Louise Engdahl, 1989, pp.158
- Stardrive section of a Galaxy-class starship. [1]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Memory Alpha, Secondary hull (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ^ GateWorld, Stardrive (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ^ IMDB, "Stardrive" (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ^ books.google.com, [1], (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 books.google.com, [2] (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ^ books.google.com, [3] (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ^ books.google.com, [4] (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ^ books.google.com, [5] (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ^ books.google.com [6] (accessed 2014-03-18)
- ^ books.google.com [7] (accessed 2013-03-18)
- ^ books.google.com, [8] (accessed 2014-03-18)