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 ".

* The original Star Desktop evolved into the ViewPoint Desktop and later became GlobalView which was ported to various Unix platforms, such as SunOS Unix and AIX, A Mesa to C compiler was written and the resulting code compiled for the target platform.

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.

Many of the technologies " created " for the Star Trek universe were done so out of simple economic necessity — the transporter was created because the budget of the original series in the 1960s did not allow for expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets.

William Shatner, who portrayed James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek series, also cowrote a book " I'm Working on That " in which he investigated how Star Trek technology was becoming feasible.

For example, the Star Trek catchphrase " Beam me up, Scotty " did not appear in that form in the original series — likewise, the famous Dirty Harry quotation " Are you feeling lucky, punk?

In the entertainment industry, this can manifest itself as calling a movie " Part 1 " once sequels are released or by slightly altering the title ( e. g. Star Wars: A New Hope or Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ) to emphasize its connection with the sequel ( s ), or by referring to a television series as " the original ," as in Star Trek: The Original Series.

This retcon itself was later retconned, in Star Trek: Enterprise, via a storyline in which it is revealed that the original, quasi-human appearance of the Klingons is due to a genetic mutation caused by an engineered virus – as it happened, " genetic engineering " ( Chief O ' Brien ) and " viral mutation " ( Dr. Bashir ) had been the guesses Worf refused to confirm or deny.

The eleventh Star Trek film ( 2009 ) features a red-uniformed character who dies early on during a mission in homage to the original series.

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( Two original Keystone Cops in this movie were Heinie Conklin as an elderly studio Guard ; and Hank Mann as a prop man.

The original prop was inspired by a one-piece women's hair clip brought to production by Michael Okuda during the initial conceptual development of the VISOR prop.

A common misconception is that the Doctor Who production team at BBC Wales were so impressed by how much more resilient the toy sonic screwdriver was than the real prop, that they obtained moulds of the original prototype of the toy to use in the 2006 series, in fact, this was not the case.

" The hotel also lays claim to the original " bubble machine ," a prop left over from a 1920s movie premiere.

Fred Barton, a robot historian, is credited with saving Robby from ruin and completely restoring him to his original state ; Barton used original duplicate replacement parts made for Forbidden Planet by MGM's prop department.

* The Woodchipper in Fargo Exhibit-An exhibit in Fargo, ND featuring the original movie prop wood chipper and memorabilia from the film.

Jein added references to the original television series and other science fiction franchises throughout the prop designs ; the Rura Penthe warden's staff contained parts of a spaceship from Buck Rogers, while the frong was detailed with a prop from Buckaroo Banzai.

prop or costume was a re-use of the original Robot B-9 from Lost in Space, modified with a bubble on its shoulders, a cylindrical ( rather than bubble ) head, a blue-and-white paint job, and other minor changes ( P. O. P. S.

The tricorder prop for the original Star Trek series was designed and built by Wah Ming Chang, one of several futuristic props he created under his contract.

The prop used in the original series appeared to be a modified fuel injector for a large automotive diesel engine.

When the show switched to color, the prop people came up with a brightly colored bottle to replace the original.

In the 2000s, a film prop " medieval " timber castle has been constructed on a part of the original site.

The set has been changed in 1965 and 1999, but one prop survives from the original opening – the clock which sits on the mantelpiece of the fire in the main hall.

The original Courage Medal prop from the 1939 film has been recently rediscovered.

The original set designer, costumer, prop master, and lighting designer was Ed Wittstein, who performed all four jobs for a total of only $ 480 plus $ 24. 48 a week.

However, after a discussion with Prowse on 4 May 2007, he said that the " lightsaber " was actually a toy and not an original prop.

The prop used was an original, operated — as occasionally in Doctor Who — by visual effects assistant Mat Irvine.

Although fabricated using measurements and moulds taken from an existing prop, the " goon " Daleks exhibited minor differences from the original Shawcraft builds including the substitution of single dowels neck struts for the trefoil cross section items which were the norm up to this point.

Paddy is one of the original first chimpanzees who lived at Monkey World since 1987 after being rescued from a life as a beach photographer's prop in Spain.

* Space Gyaos was not to be featured in the film ; a new kaiju was, but due to time and budget limitations, the original Gyaos prop from Gamera vs. Gyaos was simply painted silver.

The phone box was in fact originally put there only as a prop for the film, and then removed, but as a result of public demand a genuine telephone box was installed a few metres from the original spot ( 44 3466 210 ), and has been a listed building since 1989.