1990s

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1990s pl (plural only)

  1. The decade that began in 1990 and ended in 1999.
    • 1967 February 16, Space Seed (Star Trek), number 22 (Science Fiction), season 1, Paramount Domestic Television:
      KIRK: We're reading it, Lieutenant. I thought you said it couldn't possibly be an Earth vessel.
      SPOCK: I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong.
      KIRK: An emotional Earth weakness of mine. There it is.
      KIRK: An old Earth vessel, similar to the DY-500 class.
      SPOCK: Much older. DY-100 class, to be exact. Captain, the last such vessel was built centuries ago, back in the 1990s.
      KIRK: Then it's a derelict, its signal left on automatic.
      SPOCK: Or an old Earth ship being used by aliens.

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