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Does anyone know who coined this term and when it might first have crept
into the scifi lexicon?
Dave!
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| Earliest I remember is in Star Trek the original. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D.who isn't that big of a Star Trek know it all. "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:G6A7Kn.8z5@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Dave Schuler wrote in message ... (...) I've always wondered that myself. I know it's mentioned in Star Wars in episode 4.. Earlier than that they were used a lot in the original Star Trek series. Beyond that, I have no idea. -- -Bones- = (URL) = (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) To answer your question, I want to go with E.E. "Doc" Smith and the Lensman series but I might be wrong. The concept of a force beam that can push or pull things, no matter how named, considerably predates Star Trek. BTW: It's SF or Science (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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