[Ads-l] antedating Warp Speed

[Jeff Prucher]

> Didn't they discover this in the second season of the inimitable original
> Star Trek?

I'm fairly sure that "warp speed", like "beam me up, Scotty", doesn't actually appear in the original series. The 1977 quote is from an ST novel.

JL

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:30 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> warp speed
> OED SF Project and OED have 1977
>
> 1952 Fox B. Holden "Yachting Party"  _Imagination_  Jan 95/2 [Internet
> Archive]
> "'Free' speed, with old-fashioned fuel-eating jets which were supposed to
> be carried as emergency power units only, was forty thousand miles a second
> at best -- warp-speed, depending on the dimension you used, had a top of
> better than a thousand light-years a minute."
>
> https://archive.org/details/Imagination_v03n01_1952-01_LennyS-cape1736/page/n94/mode/1up?q=%22warp+speed%22
>
> 1973 _Fantasy & Science Fiction_ Aug 162/2 [Internet Archive]
> [classified ad] "Alien Space costs $4 and gives each player command of a
> warp speed starship, equipped with blazers, shields, sensors, main and
> auxiliary engines, life support systems, etc."
>
> https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v045n02_1973-08/page/n82/mode/1up?q=%22warp+speed%22
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