The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

In 2003, another British publisher, Wandering Star, made an effort both to restore Howard's original manuscripts and to provide a more scholarly and historical view of the Conan stories.

The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701 ), the main setting of the original Star Trek television series and several Star Trek films

* Enterprise, original title of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise

The company went on to establish itself as major gaming company with the publication of the first licensed Star Trek RPG, then several successful original games.

In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original Star Wars film.

Gwen recalls Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek series and Emma Peel of the The Avengers.

His mellow, possibly stoned, demeanour contrasts hilariously with the intensity of the corresponding character in the original Star Trek series.

Although several games based on the HERO System were published in the 1980s, including Champions, Danger International, Justice, Inc., Robot Warriors and the original versions of Fantasy HERO and Star HERO, each of the RPGs was self-contained, much as Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing games are.

Though mentioned in the original Star Trek series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", the Klingon language first appeared on-screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ).

The language appeared intermittently in later films featuring the original cast-for example, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), where translation difficulties served as a plot device.

The Shakespearian choices were inspired by a remark from High Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, who said, " You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

Within the fictional universe of Star Trek, Klingon is derived from the original language spoken by the messianic figure Kahless the Unforgettable, who united the Klingon home-world of Qo ' noS under one empire more than 1500 years ago.

" This occurs on the DVD editions of the Star Trek films on a 4: 3 television when the included widescreen documentaries show footage from the original television series.

In the TV / Videogame series MegaMan Star Force, Lyra is the alien that accompanies Sonia Sky, who is otherwise known as Sonia Strumm in the game series, but Lyra is sometimes known as Harp, most commonly found in the original Japanese version, Ryuusei no Rockman.

Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early story " The Soft Weapon ".

It also makes an appearance in Sega's Phantasy Star Online games, as bonus music for completing a quest themed after the original Nights game.

K-Lite doesn't include any code by Sharman: instead, it runs the user's original Kazaa Media Desktop executable in an environment which removes the malware, spyware and adware and adds features.

Soon after the closure of the CLIÉ line, Sony stopped providing original installation drivers, including Sony's version of Palm Desktop for the CLIÉ, which are necessary for Hotsyncing with the PC and otherwise taking advantage of the handhelds ' many features for which a PC may be required.

The names ArcView and ArcInfo are now used to name different levels of licensing in ArcGIS for Desktop, and less often refer to these original software products.

This version of PLATO runs on a free and open source software emulation of the original CDC hardware called Desktop Cyber.

The original 98lite was a simple DOS based installer that ran before the Windows 98 installation, this installer made modifications to a fresh installation of Windows preventing the installation of Internet Explorer and the Active Desktop.

The user now had three installation options, the " sleek " option allowed the user to install 98lite with the Windows 95 shell like in the original release or the user could choose " chubby " which used the Windows 98 shell with some Active Desktop features disabled.

The original AlphaSmart computer companion was shipped in August 1993, and worked only with Apple Macintosh computers, plugging into the Apple Desktop Bus ( ADB ) port.

On June 21, 2004 Apple announced Apple Remote Desktop 2 ( released in July ), which was designed to use the VNC protocol instead of Apple's original ARD protocol.

For the PC, PalmPilot Desktop was distributed either on 3½ inch disk or on CD-ROM ( according to an original floppy disk set, v1. 0 was for Windows 95 and included a tutorial disk and two win32s disks for Windows 3. 1 ; v2. 0 was for Windows 95 and Windows NT ).

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

This is most likely a secondary evolved characteristic which means there is not necessarily a connection between the teeth and the original dermal scales.

These ships had the size and displacement of the original torpedo boat destroyers that the contemporary destroyer had evolved from.

The Yupik language dialects and cultures in Alaska and eastern Siberia have evolved in place beginning with the original ( pre-Dorset ) Eskimo culture that developed in Alaska.

After German settlement, the original name of Cholberg evolved into.

The original instrument was the mandore, which evolved in the fourteenth century from the lute.

Some authors saw the latter as languages which had not yet completely evolved to full Bantu status, whereas others regarded them as languages which had partly lost original features still found in Bantu.

Earth has evolved through geological and biological processes that have left traces of the original conditions.

In this clade, Fabales were the first lineage to branch off ; thus, the ability to fix nitrogen may be plesiomorphic and subsequently lost in most descendants of the original nitrogen-fixing plant ; however, it may be that the basic genetic and physiological requirements were present in an incipient state in the last common ancestors of all these plants, but only evolved to full function in some of them:

In contrast to North America, more of the bands from the original British punk movement remained active, sustaining extended careers even as their styles evolved and diverged.

It combined the original PROMPT methodology ( which evolved into the PRINCE methodology ) with IBM's MITP ( managing the implementation of the total project ) methodology.

Alternatively, Prakrit can be taken to mean " derived from an original ," which means evolved in natural way.

The original version of the SSH software used various pieces of free software, such as GNU libgmp, but later versions released by SSH Secure Communications evolved into increasingly proprietary software.

With several other additions, Carter's original writing evolved into the concept of the series about two agents who deal with strange and unusual activities.

The name evolved in the 4th century when the original Gallic name, Turones, became first " Civitas Turonum " then " Tours ".

The original Mesopotamian writing system ( believed to be the world's oldest ) was derived from this method of keeping accounts circa 3600 BC, and by the end of the 4th millennium BC, this had evolved into using a triangular-shaped stylus pressed into soft clay for recording numbers.

In addition, the Disney-controlled town of Celebration, Florida, which was built with many of Walt Disney's original ideas, which have evolved into a form of New Urbanism, was deannexed from Bay Lake and the District to keep its residents from having power over Disney by providing for separate administration of the areas.

The streets of Boston, Massachusetts may seem as though they were not planned — a common fiction is that they evolved from old cowpaths — but in the 17th century they avoided swamps and marshes and followed shorelines before the original peninsula comprising the city was expanded with landfill in the 19th century.

It's not known how much the original track evolved in the early years as the three sports matured and stabilized.

The spirit they made evolved, and became known as bourbon in the early 19th century due to its historical association with the geographic area known as Old Bourbon ( consisting of the original Bourbon County of Virginia as created in 1785, which was a region that included much of today's Eastern Kentucky – including 34 of today's counties in Kentucky, one of which is the current Bourbon County of Kentucky ).

), are preserved the original form, a leafy vine ; in the Mediterranean, the asparagus genus has evolved into thorny species.

Its original form had gaff rig, but evolved to use what is now known as Bermuda rig, making it the basis of nearly all modern sailing yachts.

The original German guillotines resembled the French Berger 1872 model, but they eventually evolved into more specialised machines largely built of metal with a much heavier blade enabling shorter uprights to be used.

However, in the early 1930s as the Nazis evolved from an extremist political party to the unquestioned leaders of the government, the SA was no longer needed for its original purpose: the acquisition of political power and the suppression of the enemies of the Party.