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Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 animated science-fiction film directed by Steven Hahn and written by Jeffrey Scott, the first full-length animated feature in stereoscopic 3-D, about slave miner Orin's rebellion against Zygon.

Starcrash

Starcrash (Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione) is a 1978 Italian-American science fiction film directed by Luigi Cozzi, starring Caroline Munro, Marjoe Gortner, and David Hasselhoff, a cult Star Wars-era space opera released by New World Pictures in 1979.

Stardate

Stardate: the fictional Starfleet timekeeping system in Star Trek, heard in captain's logs since 1966. Invented by Gene Roddenberry to avoid naming a century; TNG-era stardates run about 1000 units per Earth year; Kelvin films use year.day format.

Stardust (1974 film)

Stardust (1974) is a British musical drama, sequel to That'll Be the Day, directed by Michael Apted, written by Ray Connolly, starring David Essex as rock star Jim MacLaine of the Stray Cats, with Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Keith Moon, and Dave Edmunds; it won the 1974 Writers Guild screenplay award.

Stardust Crusaders (スターダストクルセイダース)

Stardust Crusaders (スターダストクルセイダース) is the third part of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1989-1992 (152 chapters, volumes 12-28), introducing the Stand power system; Jotaro Kujo journeys Tokyo to Cairo against DIO; adapted as a 1993 OVA and a 2014 48-episode TV anime.

Starfire (Teen Titans)

Starfire (Koriand'r) is a DC Comics superheroine, a Tamaranean princess created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, debuting in DC Comics Presents #26 (1980) as a founding New Teen Titan, later adapted in animation, live action, and upcoming DC Studios projects.

Starfox (comics)

Starfox (Eros of Titan), Marvel Comics superhero and Eternal brother of Thanos, first appearing in Iron Man #55 (1973) by Starlin and Friedrich; Avengers member from Avengers #232 (1983), killed and resurrected in the Eternals-era A.X.E.: Judgment Day storyline.

Stargate

Stargate is a military science fiction franchise begun by the 1994 Emmerich-Devlin film and expanded through Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007, 214 episodes), Atlantis, Universe, films, and novels; Amazon's 2025 revival series was canceled in June 2026.

Stargate (device)

Stargate (also Astria Porta, Chappa'ai): fictional ring device built by the Ancients in the Stargate franchise, creating one-way wormholes between gates; naquadah ring, 39 glyphs, nine chevrons, 38-minute limit.

Stargate (film)

Stargate is a 1994 science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich and co-written with Dean Devlin, starring Kurt Russell, James Spader, and Jaye Davidson. It grossed $196.6 million worldwide and launched the Stargate franchise, including Stargate SG-1.

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Atlantis (SGA) is a Canadian-American sci-fi series created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, a Stargate SG-1 spin-off that ran 2004-2009, following an Earth expedition to the Ancient city of Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy against the Wraith.

Stargate Origins

Stargate Origins is a 2018 MGM science-fiction web miniseries, a prequel to the 1994 Stargate film, following young Catherine Langford (Ellie Gall) rescuing her father from Nazis in 1939; ten ten-minute episodes premiered on Stargate Command and were recut as the feature Stargate Origins: Catherine.

Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007), also called SG-1, is a Canadian-American military sci-fi TV series by Glassner and Wright, spun off from the 1994 Stargate film; ten seasons, 214 episodes, airing on Showtime then Sci Fi, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.

Stargate Universe

Stargate Universe (SGU): Canadian-American sci-fi series by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, Syfy 2009-2011, two seasons, 40 episodes. Crew stranded on the Ancient ship Destiny after the ninth chevron discovery; cancelled December 2010.

Stargate: Continuum

Stargate: Continuum is a 2008 direct-to-DVD Stargate SG-1 film written by Brad Wright, directed by Martin Wood, released July 29, 2008, in which Ba'al's 1939 time travel erases the Stargate program.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008) is a direct-to-DVD MGM film, written and directed by Robert C. Cooper, that ends Stargate SG-1's Ori arc as SG-1 seeks the Alteran Ark of Truth in the Ori home galaxy.

Stargirl (film)

Stargirl (2020 Disney+ film), Julia Hart's adaptation of Jerry Spinelli's 2000 YA novel, starring Grace VanderWaal as Stargirl Caraway; released March 13, 2020, distinct from DC's Stargirl TV series.

Stargirl (TV series)

Stargirl, also marketed as DC's Stargirl, is an American superhero drama series created by Geoff Johns, starring Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore; it ran from 2020 to 2022.

Stark (シュタルク) (Frieren)

Stark (シュタルク) is the human warrior and Eisen's disciple who joins Frieren and Fern as vanguard in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End; axe fighter, sole survivor of a demon attack, voiced by Chiaki Kobayashi.

Stark Raving Dad

"Stark Raving Dad" (S3E1, The Simpsons, September 19, 1991, production code 7F24): Homer meets Leon Kompowsky, voiced by Michael Jackson as "John Jay Smith"; written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss; pulled from all platforms in 2019 after Leaving Neverland and absent from Disney+.

Stark Sands

Stark Sands (Stark Bunker Sands, born 1978) is an American actor, a two-time Tony nominee who originated Charlie Price in Kinky Boots and Tunny in American Idiot, and starred in Generation Kill and Minority Report.

StarKid Productions

StarKid Productions (Team StarKid), Chicago comedic musical theatre company founded 2009 at University of Michigan; A Very Potter Musical went viral on YouTube; 15 musicals, 320M+ views, Billboard #1 cast albums, national tours, 2024 London Palladium debut.

Starlet (film)

Starlet is a 2012 American independent drama, Sean Baker's fourth feature, co-written with Chris Bergoch. Dree Hemingway plays Jane, an adult film performer who finds money in a yard-sale thermos and befriends 85-year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson, debut role) in the San Fernando Valley; released by Music Box Films, grossing $146,222.

Starletta DuPois

Starletta DuPois (born 1941, Philadelphia) is an American character actress, Tony-nominated for The Mighty Gents (1978), who has played all three female roles in A Raisin in the Sun and appears in One Battle After Another (2025).

Starlight BnB (光开门就很忙了)

Starlight BnB (光開門就很忙了) is a 2023 Taiwanese reality show, second in the Light series spun off from Light the Night, in which Ruby Lin and six entertainers run a pet-friendly Taitung guesthouse; 13 episodes premiered June 25, 2023 on TVBS and Netflix.

Starlight Boys (星光闪耀的少年)

Starlight Boys (星光闪耀的少年, 스타라이트보이즈), formerly Youth With You International, was a 2024 iQIYI-SBS Korean-Chinese survival show: 69 trainees, star-level grading, forming the nine-member group POLARIX led by Shao Ziheng.

Starlight Glimmer

Starlight Glimmer is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic unicorn, introduced in the Season 5 premiere The Cutie Map as an equality cult leader, redeemed in The Cutie Re-Mark, later Twilight's student and School of Friendship guidance counselor.

Starman (film)

Starman (1984) is John Carpenter's sci-fi romance starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen: an alien answers Voyager 2's invitation, is shot down over Wisconsin, clones a widow's dead husband, and races to Arizona. Columbia Pictures; Bridges earned an Oscar nomination.

Starman (upcoming film)

Starman is a cosmic science-fiction thriller directed by Josh Wakely. It stars Brendan Fraser as Tom Adams, a technologist on a Mars mission, and Jeff Daniels.

Starmania (musical)

Starmania is a 1978/1979 French-language rock opera by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon, the first of its kind in French, starring France Gall and Daniel Balavoine, with hits like Le Blues du businessman and Le Monde est stone; revived by Thomas Jolly in 2022.