A Horta ( Star Trek ) | Horta, a fictional silicon-based life-form in the Star Trek universe.

* Commodore ( Star Trek ), a fictional Starfleet rank in Star Trek

* Clone trooper, a fictional soldier in the Star Wars universe

* Starship Enterprise, any of several ships by that name in the Star Trek fictional universe

Professional fictional languages are those languages created for use in books, movies, television shows, video games, comics, toys, and musical albums ( prominent examples of works featuring fictional languages include the Middle-earth and Star Trek universes and the game Myst ).

Perhaps the most fully developed fictional alien language is the Klingon language of the Star Trek universe-a fully developed constructed language.

Dark Jedi is the name given in the Star Wars universe to fictional characters attuned to the Force and adept in its dark side.

One of the enduring influences the Star Wars saga has had in popular culture is the idea of the fictional Jedi values being interpreted as a modern philosophical path or religion, spawning various movements such as the controversial Jediism ( religious ) and the Jedi census phenomenon.

The Klingon language ( tlhIngan Hol, pronounced ) is the constructed language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe.

With the advent of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 )— in which one of the main characters, Worf, was a Klingon — and successors, the language and various cultural aspects for the fictional species were expanded.

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.

* Deep Space Station K7, a fictional space station featured in the Star Trek episodes " The Trouble With Tribbles " and " Trials and Tribble-ations "

* Lore ( Star Trek ), a fictional android

In the fictional Star Trek universe, a starship, the USS Malinche was named for La Malinche.

* Mirror Universe ( Star Trek ), fictional parallel universe

* Maquis ( Star Trek ), anti-Cardassian resistance movement in the fictional Star Trek universe

* The Mon Calamari ( race ), fictional amphibious humanoids in Star Wars

For example, it was featured in at least 10 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation as a weekly event of the senior staff of the fictional ship's crew.

In the Star Trek franchise, the books The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volumes 1 & 2 ), by Greg Cox, detail the fictional Eugenics Wars of the early 1990s – still many years into the future when first mentioned in the episode " Space Seed " in 1967 – giving alternative explanations for real world events such as the Indian nuclear test of 1974 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, presenting them as small parts of a single wider conflict.

The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I ( or EMH for short ), is a fictional character from the television series Star Trek: Voyager, played by actor Robert Picardo.

First introduced in the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Wounded ", the species originated on the fictional Alpha Quadrant planet Cardassia Prime.

It is named after the fictional Star Trek race by the original authors, Katherine Freese and Matthew Lewis.

Kathryn Janeway, played by Kate Mulgrew, is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Maquis were formed in the 24th Century after a peace treaty was enacted between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, redesignating the demilitarized zone between the two powers, which resulted in the Federation ceding several of their colony worlds to the Cardassians.

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

* Abydos ( Stargate ), name of a fictional planet in the Stargate science fiction universe

* Symbol of the Imperium ( Warhammer 40, 000 ) in the fictional Warhammer 40, 000 universe

* The Ark, a fictional spacecraft in the Transformers universe

* Aba ( Dune ), a type of robe in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert

The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu use elements of the Mythos in an ongoing expansion of the fictional universe.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

In comic books, continuity has also come to mean a set of contiguous events, sometimes said to be " set in the same universe " ( see fictional crossover and fictional universe ) or " separate universes " ( see intercompany crossover ).

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Piter De Vries is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

The locations where these adventures occur, such as a city, country, planet or an entire fictional universe, are also sometimes called ' campaigns ' but are more correctly referred to as ' worlds ' or ' campaign settings '.

In the fictional Discworld universe created by author Terry Pratchett, the city-state of Ankh-Morpork contains numerous Guilds ( including respective Guilds for Assassins, Beggars and Fools, as well as Thieves and others ), all of which have a monopoly on the various trades which they dominate.

* Moties — part of Pournelle's CoDominium fictional universe

The fictional universe is also the home of species from outside Known Space, including the hominid inhabitants of a megastructure called Ringworld.

In contrast to many other fictional FTL technologies, such as a " jump drive " or the Infinite Improbability Drive, the warp drive does not permit instantaneous travel between two points ; instead, warp drive technology creates an artificial " bubble " of normal space-time that surrounds the spacecraft ( as opposed to entering a separate realm or dimension like hyperspace, as is used in the Star Wars, Stargate franchise, Warhammer 40, 000, Babylon 5 and Andromeda universes ).

It is a fictional reactor which taps the energy released in a matter-antimatter annihilation to provide the energy necessary to power a starship's warp drive, allowing faster-than-light travel.

Red River is a 1948 Western film directed by Howard Hawks, giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail.

The Wetherly family-husband Tom ( William Devane ), wife Carol ( Jane Alexander ), and children Brad ( Ross Harris ), Mary Liz ( Roxana Zal ), and Scottie ( Lukas Haas )-live in the fictional suburb of Hamlin, California, within a 90-minute drive of San Francisco, where Tom works.

It described a fictional drive of the Circle Dot herd from Texas to Montana in 1882, and became a leading source on cowboy life ; historians retraced his path in the 1960s, confirming his basic accuracy.

The fictional " Kerensky Cluster ", which formed the core of their space, is many jumps worth of jump drive travel from the Inner Sphere, and is represented as being totally cut off from it.

On this date in the fictional universe, a group of American Indians from various tribes, led by a Sioux shaman known as " Raven ," performed a ritual in an effort to drive out the European settlers.

The Alderson drive, named after Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Dan Alderson, is a fictional device that enables instantaneous interstellar transportation.

The fictional science behind the Alderson drive assumes a fifth force, generated by thermonuclear reactions.

* Alderson drive, a fictional interstellar transport drive

Akagi is the home of the fictional Takahashi Brothers ( street racers who drive two generations of the Mazda RX-7 ), and serves as the home course of the Akagi Redsuns ( later reformed as Project D ).

Kiley's overhead passes cause the fictional Colonel Hessler's ( Shaw ) driver, Conrad ( Hans Christian Blech ) to drive into a ditch.

At least two movies have depicted a fictional account of the first drive along the Chisholm Trail: The Texans ( 1938 ), directed by James Hogan and starring Randolph Scott and Joan Bennett, and Red River ( 1948 ), directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.

** Impulse drive, a fictional form of propulsion in Star Trek

It concerns the fictional holiday " Whacking Day ", celebrated annually May 10, in which the citizens of Springfield drive snakes into the town square, then club them to death.

The operations of Wild Pack and Silver Sable International drive the national economy of the fictional small European state of Symkaria.

Although the book never names the state in which the fictional town is located, many references are made to the city being located in the Mid-West, apparently within an easy drive to Chicago.

" Slipstream " is a science fiction term for a fictional method of faster-than-light space travel, similar to hyperspace travel, warp drive, or " transfer points " from David Brin's Uplift series.

" The younger man also benefited from his experience, having taught him how to drive a car " when he was too drunk to ," taking him to a bar, the fictional Green Frog Cafe, where the narrator observed men who spent their time " lying about their lives, drinking beer and playing dominoes.