William Shatner
31 Quotations from William Shatner
| antigrav n. | 1996 Return v. 29 He felt the abrupt tug of the antigravs pulling on his equipment harness. |
| Borg n. | 1996 Return v. 25 She was the result of Starfleet’s fevered preparations to fight a war against the Borg. |
| bot n. | 1997 Delta Search (1997) 330 He peered over and watched, waited until she was leaping over a ruined pile of laser-bots, just where the controls for the next blast door ought to be. He squeezed the small detonator in his hands… The explosion cleared the rest of the bots and jammed the blast door open permanently. |
| cloaking device n. | 1996 The Return (Star Trek) 251 Fortunately, the Borg had not determined the weaknesses of the latest generation of Romulan cloaking devices. |
| cryostasis n. | 1998 Spectre viii. 84 Seven are in cryostasis awaiting burial. |
| disruptor n. | 1998 Spectre Prologue 2 Everyone else would be distracted by the flat red blister of a disruptor scar etched across the olive skin of her forehead. |
| Earth-normal n. | 1998 Spectre xi. 132 A display inside his helmet revealed that the exterior atmospheric pressure was 250 torr, about one-third Earth normal. |
| Earth-normal adj. | 1997 Avenger vi. 45 The designers…had specified a cylindrical aquarium, with an Earth-normal saltwater environment. |
| empathic adj. | 1998 Spectre xxviii. 335 He wanted there to be some way it would be caught up by Deanna’s empathic ability and taken from him forever. |
| fresher n. | 1997 Delta Search (1997) 39 He stood, folded the paper and stuck it in his shirt pocket, then headed for the bathroom to wash his hands… He hummed softly while the fresher sprayed water and odorless disinfectant on his palms. |
| graviton n. | 1998 Spectre iii. 42 On the screen, three violet beams of focused gravitons reached out to the stricken starship. |
| group mind n. | 1996 Return xxxii. 244 He was not inclined to encourage it to change its groupmind. |
| holovid n. | 1997 In Alien Hands 88 Big Scaly settled back down and aimed some kind of handheld contraption that resembled a holovid camera at him. |
| Klingon n. | 1997 Avenger iii. 21 The planet’s name was Chal, a Klingon term for Heaven. |
| laser rifle n. | 1997 Avenger i. 6 He looked up…expecting to stare into the glowing barrel of a laser rifle. |
| light-year n. | 1996 Return vi. 34 Dozens of light-years from the nearest star, it was simply a collection of asteroidal debris. |
| mind-meld n. | 1996 Return xliii. 321 A mind-meld?…You will be able to draw strength from me. |
| mind-meld n. | 1997 Avenger iv. 32 For a father and son not to share a mindmeld was almost unheard of in Vulcan society. |
| mindmeld v. | 1996 Return viii. 63, I have mind-melded with the captain. |
| nanite n. | 1996 Return xiii. 120 The neuronic implant will kill him long before the nanites fatally reconfigure his body. |
| nanotechnology n. | 1996 Return xxvii. 213 But they are clearly nanotechnology intended for medical treatment. |
| photon torpedo n. | 1996 Return ii. 14 They were low-yield photon torpedoes. |
| positronic adj. | 1996 Return xix. 154 His positronic brain had had enough processing time to review the contents of the last four standard years of the journal. |
| prime directive n. | 1996 Return i. 5 Though the ship was beyond salvage, in accordance with the Prime Directive no trace of it could remain on this world. |
| shapeshifter n. | 1997 Avenger xxvi. 224 As if some shapeshifter had taken Spock’s form. |
| starfleet n. | 1997 Avenger i. 6 His father’s leave from Starfleet had been canceled. |
| stun-gun v. | 1992 TekLords 221 Kneeling beside the big man he’d stungunned, he started searching him. |
| terraformed adj. | 1996 Return v. 32 The terraformed crater of Mars were sharp with the tang of oxide-rich soil. |
| tricorder n. | 1997 Avenger v. 39 Dr. Andrea M’Benga stepped out, medical tricorder in hand. |
| Vulcan n. | 1996 Return i. 7 Spock had become instrumental in the efforts to reduce those tensions by decades of secret negotiations intended to reconcile the Romulans with the Vulcans. |
| xenobiology n. | 1996 Return xxix. 222 Starfleet’s xenobiology records didn’t either. |