Citations:Star Trekky

English citations of Star Trekky

Adjective: "of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the science fiction franchise Star Trek"

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• 1979, Mechanical Engineering: The Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, page 71:

  People who consider digital displays more natural are probably: (1) unnatural people; or (2) unaware of the unconscious digital-to-analog conversion they perform; or (3) blinded by the “Star Trekky" super-gadget aspects of digital watches.

• 1982, Robert Daniel Fierro, The New American Entrepreneur: How to Get Off the Fast Track into a Business of Your Own, Morrow (1982), →ISBN, page 31:

  Tom's little black box enables you to speak to a computer in a voice that it recognizes and obeys. It's all very "Star Trekky" and terribly exciting to see in action.

• 1987, Ray Guy, Ray Guy's Best, Formac Publishing Company Limited (1987), →ISBN, page 151:

  I would say, "Eh? Oh. Yes. Humph! How's that?" and there'd be agonized screeches from the chaps hunched over the Star Trekky console.

• 1993, James M. Higgins & Julian W. Vincze, Strategic Management: Texts and Cases, Dryden Press (1993), →ISBN, page 383:

  It has been leapfrogging the industry with new products thanks to its heavy investment in research and development, for example, the Micro Tac cellular phone, a "Star Trekky" unit that slips into a coat pocket and is a third lighter than the next lightest possible portable phone from a Japanese competitor.

• 1995, Douglas Coupland, Microserfs, Harper Perennial (2008), →ISBN, page 66:

  Karla began talking all Star Trekky again—the best thing about her. She said, "I don't believe human beings store memory in our brains exclusively—there simply aren't enough storage slots or interconnective possibilities. And so if not in the brain, then where? […]

• 2000, John Emery Arnold, Tryin' Hard to Mellow Out, Xlibris (2000), →ISBN, pages 125-126:

  Then it was quite a shock to round the corner toward home and see two suns. My initial thought was some kind of Star Trekky out-of-this-world event.

• 2005, Linda Armstrong Kelly & Joni Rodgers, No Mountain High Enough: Raising Lance, Raising Me, Thorndike Press (2005), →ISBN, page 264:

  "Mobile phones, computers — a whole lot of Star Trekky kind of technology" is how Jeanine, my new supervisor, explained it.

• 2008, Bill Sowers, "Rocky in Wonderland: A Librarian's Journey Down the Second Life Rabbit Hole", in Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries: Librarians and Educators in Second Life and Other Multi-User Virtual Environments (eds. Lori Bell & Rhonda B. Trueman), Information Today, Inc. (2008), →ISBN, page 50:

  This sounded Star Trekky, so I double-clicked and zipped through the virtual cosmosphere, landing at the greeting center for Info Island.

• 2010, John Gould, Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good, HarperCollins Canada (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Is it possible people actually do this nine to five? It's all questions. Star Trekky kind of questions, wish-we-were-stoned kind of questions.

• 2012, Ian Yeoman (with Tan Li Yu Rebecca, Michelle Mars, & Mariska Wouters), 2050 - Tomorrow's Tourism, Channel View Publications (2012), →ISBN, page 86:

  Technology is one of the key drivers of the future, where flying cars, internet capable contact lenses, resurrection of extinct life, the end of death, space tourism and everything else Star Trekky is possible.