Some starships are assembled at Utopia Planitia region on Mars, particularly the Galaxy class starships featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Although no clear indication of the true strength of a Galor class vessel has ever been given, they are shown to be weaker than the Galaxy class ships used by the Federation Starfleet ( The Wounded ).

Like the Galaxy class, the Odyssey class vessels are capable of saucer separation.

# REDIRECT List of Starfleet starships ordered by class # Galaxy class

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The aliens in the school included Gilda Gossip, the girl with the big mouth or mouths, Booey Bubblehead, who has a bubble for a head and is absent-minded, Milo De Venus, the six armed class president, Beef and the Bonk Bunch who bully Doyle ( and just about every student at Galaxy High ), and The Creep, a small alien who resembled something between a very fat cherub and a marshmallow and had a huge crush on Aimee which would often reveal itself as he serenaded like a Las Vegas lounge singer.

At Galaxy High, the junior class president has six hands.

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* USS Yamato ( NCC-71807 ), a Galaxy class starship and the sister ship of the USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-D ) in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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* USS Venture, a Galaxy class starship in the Star Trek universe

A later mission in the Dominion campaign requires the player to destroy the Imperius before Riker can take command and, if possible, destroy Riker's current ship ( a Galaxy class starship ).

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The Enterprise-D is the third Galaxy class starship, after the pathfinder ship USS Galaxy ( from which the Galaxy class takes its name ) and the USS Yamato.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

A 2012 study of gravitational microlensing data collected between 2002 and 2007 concludes the proportion of stars with planets is much higher and estimates an average of 1. 6 planets orbiting between 0. 5 – 10 AU per star in the Milky Way Galaxy, the authors of this study conclude " that stars are orbited by planets as a rule, rather than the exception.

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* 2012 – Faruq Z. Bey, American saxophonist, composer, and poet ( Griot Galaxy ) ( b. 1942 )

* 1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

* 1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.

* 1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.

In fact, it has been theorized that a quasar could form as the Andromeda Galaxy collides with our own Milky Way galaxy in approximately 3 – 5 billion years.

The BBC also aired science fiction comedy series such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ) by Douglas Adams and Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99, 2009 ).

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

* May 19 – The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80 – 90 % of the world's pagers without service.

* June 30 – Lockheed C-5 Galaxy heavy military transport aircraft first flies in the U. S. This model will still be in service forty years on.

* August 19 – S Andromedae, the only supernova seen in the Andromeda Galaxy so far by astronomers, and the first ever noted outside the Milky Way, is discovered.

* May 5 – The detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is reported in the New York Times.

* December 15 – Simon Marius, is first to observe Andromeda Galaxy through a telescope.

* October 13 – French astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.

* The Hippocratic Oath – an article by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( h2g2 ).

* Birdman and the Galaxy Trio ( 1967 – 1969, NBC )

At the time when Currents takes place, Trantor controls about half of the worlds in the Galaxy, while the other half is divided into innumerable independent worlds and miniature empires – which naturally makes a Trantorian Ambassador a person of great consequence on any of the still-independent worlds.

For the 2011 – 12 CONCACAF Champions League, the qualifying clubs are MLS Cup 2010 champion Colorado Rapids, Supporters ' Shield winner Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS Cup runner-up FC Dallas, and 2010 U. S. Open Cup champion Seattle Sounders FC.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

Galaxy formation is hypothesized to occur, from structure formation theories, as a result of tiny quantum fluctuations in the aftermath of the Big Bang.

In the astronomical literature, the capitalized word ' Galaxy ' is used to refer to our galaxy, the Milky Way, to distinguish it from the billions of other galaxies.

Photograph of the " Great Andromeda Nebula " from 1899, later identified as the Andromeda Galaxy

This release, however, was missing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun because the licenses from Douglas Adams ' and James Clavell's estates had expired.

The club also picked up goalkeeper Kevin Hartman from Los Angeles Galaxy as a move to help the club with that position.

Pisces Dwarf is equidistant from the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy, so it may be a satellite of either.

* The Andromeda Galaxy is about 0. 78 megaparsecs ( 2. 5 million light-years ) away from the Earth.

Bestowed with the god ’ s power Calvert is able to exorcise the infected across the Confederation through the use of a specially configured wormhole that consumes the entire confederation and all its inhabited worlds and habitats ( including people and ships ) into a remote area outside of the Milky Way Galaxy while also de-possessing all people who had been possessed, also Calvert is able to receive a unique viewpoint of the whole story from the start of the possession right up to the point where his fiance Louise is about to stand alone against the evil Quinn Dexter.

Galaxy Quest ( 1999 ), a comedy about actors from a defunct science-fiction television series serving on a real starship, included an actor who is terrified that he's going to die on an away mission because his only appearance in the show was as an unnamed character who was killed early in the episode.

A significant proportion of Australian produced Science Fiction programmes are made for the teens / young Adults market, including The Girl from Tomorrow, the long-running Mr. Squiggle, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, Ocean Girl, Crash Zone, Watch This space, and Spellbinder.

Also going by the name Arrivederci Yamato, Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, set in the year 2201, shows the Yamato crew going up against the White Comet Empire, a mobile city fortress called Gatlantis, from the Andromeda Galaxy.

M101, also called the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a face-on spiral galaxy located 25 million light-years from Earth.

Recently, the sponsorship moved to Author Services Inc. under the trade name Galaxy Press, which was spun off from Bridge to publish Hubbard's fiction and the contest anthologies.

* In " Secret of the Oracle ", the Dopefish is mentioned to be the ' second dumbest ' creature in the whole universe, referring to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Walter " Doc " Hartford, a fictional character from The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

Thus Jansky suspected that the hiss originated well beyond the Earth's atmosphere, and by comparing his observations with optical astronomical maps, Jansky concluded that the radiation was coming from the Milky Way Galaxy and was strongest in the direction of the center of the galaxy, in the constellation of Sagittarius.

In both cases the galaxies and sources are quite distant, many hundreds of megaparsecs away from our Galaxy.

Link below is the view from Mars toward the Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Mercury, Pluto alignment toward the center of the Galaxy on 23 December 2007 which occurs just after the Pluto-Jupiter ( Heliocentric ) conjunction on 23 November 2007.

Several characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were also featured, played by the original television series actors.

He was responsible for the " Galaxy Song " from The Meaning of Life and " Eric the Half-a-Bee ", a whimsical tune that first appeared on the Previous Record album.

Idle is an accomplished songwriter, having composed and performed many of the Pythons ' most famous comic pieces, including " Eric the Half-a-Bee ", " The Philosophers ' Song ", " Galaxy Song ", " Penis Song ( Not the Noel Coward Song )" and, probably his most recognised hit, " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ", which was written for the closing scene of the Monty Python film Life of Brian, and sung from the crosses during the mass crucifixion.