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Word: klingons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This game of war, affectionately known to the computer at Star Drek, is waged between a computer wonk and the unfriendly Klingon and Romulan spaceships, which appear on the terminal screen. The thrill of firing phasers, speeding through space at warp 5, annihilating the enemy with torpedos released by pressing the asterisk on the terminal keyboard and the challenge of perfecting a technique that allows one to destroy enough alien ships before the computer blasts your own ship to pieces have brought Star Trek top popularity among the 18 game programs available in the computer room. "You should...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: TERMINAL ILLNESS | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

This Saturday night, no Klingon or Romulan spaceships appear on terminal screens. "Star Trek is the most fun of what people do here on Saturday night," Nat says. "But at the moment most people have started getting their assignments bi-weekly, so there's no game playing...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: TERMINAL ILLNESS | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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