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Warp drives first appeared in science-fiction back in the early nineteen-thirties. As a result warp drives are neither copyright nor trademarked as belonging to Star Trek. Impulse drives is a term ...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T13:03:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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a4android
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2019-12-08T13:03:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
Warp drives first appeared in science-fiction back in the early nineteen-thirties. As a result warp drives are neither copyright nor trademarked as belonging to _Star Trek_. Impulse drives is a term coined in the _Star Trek_ franchise. So it may be trademarked by them. Certainly it is more identified with _Star Trek_. Phasers definitely coined by _Star Trek_. But fear not, scienc-fiction was always rich in exotic and futuristic weaponry. Such as blasters, disintegrators, vaporizers, disrupters (yes, there not purely a Klingon invention). Check out older works of science-fiction where there were multiple names for faster-than-light drives. Hyperdrives, ultradrives, supradrives, second-order drives, even FTL drives, and overdrives are all names for FTL concepts. Most cinematic and TV science-fiction franchises have mainly strip-mined prose science-fiction for the names of their toys.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-10-23T12:45:04Z (about 5 years ago)
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