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- Character actor : An actor who builds a career performing in very similar (often stereotypical) supporting roles.
- Chess : Board game for two players played on a checkered board requiring skill, strategy and intellect.
- Deus ex machina : A term coming from Classical Theatre which, in modern terms, means an active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently insoluble difficulty.
- Engineering : The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to economically use the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind.
- Esperanto : Artificial language created by L.L. Zamenhof in the late 19th century.
- Fan fiction : Fiction written by fans containing elements from other work's fictional universes.
- Future Combat Systems : An cancelled development program,including a variety of military systems, including armored fighting vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, artillery, precision guided munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles; was an evolutionary step in the restructuring of the United States Army and tailored to the brigade combat team organizational structure but will continue partially in the Brigade Combat Team Modernization
- Gene Roddenberry : American producer and author best remembered as the creator of the Star Trek television series and its universe.
- Harlan Ellison : (May 27, 1934- ) One of the best-known living authors of science fiction.
- Horatio Hornblower : The hero of a series of nautical novels created by C.S. Forester.
- John Belushi : (1949–1982) American comic actor in movies and television.
- Rocket science : Variously an incorrect name for various engineering disciplines in dealing with unguided rockets or the rocket engines of more intelligent vehicles, or an ironic description of something very complex or very simple (i.e., "this isn't rocket science")
- Science fiction : A story-telling genre that presents alternatives to what is currently considered scientifically possible or that extrapolates from present-day knowledge.
- Spacecraft : Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, for use beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
- Star Trek: Enterprise : A television series within the Star Trek universe, dealing with the early invention of interstellar flight and the First Contact with aliens
- Telephone : Telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice, by converting the sound waves to pulses of electrical current, and then retranslating the current back to sound.
- United States Air Force : One of the uniformed services of the United States, with principal responsibility for land-based long-range and high-performance aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles
- Venus (planet) : The second planet from the Sun in our solar system; named after the Roman goddess of love.