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Most extrasolar planets in fiction are similar to Earth—referred to in the Star Trek franchise as Class M planets—and serve only as settings for the narrative. [1] [2] One reason for this, writes Stephen L. Gillett [Wikidata] in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, is to enable satire. [3]
"The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the film Alien (1979) [48] Darksyde – The Predacon transwarp ship in the Beast Wars television series. [49] The name was spelled with a y in the Beast Wars video game and in the DVD box set.
An extraterrestrial or alien is a lifeform that did not originate on Earth. The word extraterrestrial means 'outside Earth'. Extraterrestrials are a common theme in modern science-fiction, and also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History [1] by Lucian of Samosata.
This is a list of fictional galactic communities who are space-faring, in contact with one or more space-faring civilizations or are part of a larger government, coalition, republic, organization or alliance of two or more separate space-faring civilizations.
Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale. There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in all of the observable universe. [1] On the order of 100,000 galaxies make up the Local Supercluster, and about 51 galaxies are in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list).
Alien: 1979: Alien [10] Alien 2: On Earth: 1980 [13] Alien 3: 1992: Alien [9] Alien Abduction: 2005 [14] Alien Abduction: 2014 [15] Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County: 1998 [16] Alien Agent: 2007 [17] Alien Apocalypse: 2005 [18] Alien Arsenal: 1999 [19] Alien: Covenant: 2017: Alien [20] The Alien Factor: 1978 [21] Alien Hunter: 2003 [22 ...
The boom in great science fiction movies makes it impossible to share all the truly great ones, so we worked on a list of 20, which includes several franchises. Ahead, the best sci-fi cinema you ...
List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens; List of Star Trek aliens; List of Star Wars creatures; Lists of Star Wars species: A–E, F–J, K–O, P–T, U–Z; Species of the Marvel Cinematic Universe