There are a bunch of roads on the east coast that contain the name "turnpike", or the abbreviated "pike" suffix. It is an archaic term, yes, but it usually implies a toll road of some kind.
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The only time I have ever heard or seen the word 'turnpike' was from the 'anime turnpike', a website that was basically just a list of links to anime websites. Ah, the 90s..
Plenty of turnpikes.
- Delaware Turnpike, a toll road in Delaware, United States
- Florida's Turnpike, a toll road in Florida, United States
- Kansas Turnpike, a toll road in Kansas, United States
- Maine Turnpike, a toll road in Maine, United States
- Massachusetts Turnpike, a toll road in Massachusetts, United States
- New Hampshire Turnpike, a toll road in New Hampshire, United States
- New Jersey Turnpike, a toll road in New Jersey, United States
- Ohio Turnpike, a toll road in Ohio, United States
- Turnpikes of Oklahoma, a turnpike system in Oklahoma, United States
- Pennsylvania Turnpike, a toll road in Pennsylvania, United States
- West Virginia Turnpike, a toll road in West Virginia, United States
There are definitely no pikes there to block passage until one is paid. Why it was called that is left to Middle English users half a millennia or more ago. One assumes one would turn the pikes away once paid. But sometimes our assumptions on our own language can be grievously incorrect as words can sometimes change there understood meaning over the centuries. A word might actually still mean the same thing centuries later, but no one uses it for that term anymore, the definition having been corrupted into something else over time.
Also, on a more Star Trek tangent.
As George Carlin said, "Why do we park in a driveway and drive in a parkway?".
So... do we know what it looks like?
Similarly you have Gallagher with "A shipment goes by truck and cargo goes by ship. You have a pair of panties but just one bra".
Yep. They punched out the recessed bits in the saucer and painted the whole ship black.
More accurately, it looks like they might have punched out the recessed bits but we have not actually had a clear enough view to see, and there are some stripes on the hull that are darker than the rest of it.
Flipped back threw some earlier pages.
Not bad. The absence of those recessed bits makes for a pretty cool-looking saucer actually.
Not bad. The absence of those recessed bits makes for a pretty cool-looking saucer actually.
But the view from inside the ring sucks.
The color palette looked more bronze to me. Almost like the Vulcan shuttle in TMP. Never seemed black to me, but maybe it's just a matter of creative lighting.
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