Talk:final frontier

RFV discussion: December 2016–April 2017

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final frontier

Possibly, but I only know it from Star Trek. SemperBlotto (talk) 13:14, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

There are plenty of quotes out there using "The final frontier" to refer to space, but there are also lots of quotes referring to other frontiers, such as mental illness, photographs of Pakistan, international regimes, parapsychology, etc. I think the problem here is not one for RFV, but for RFD - the phrase is SOP. Kiwima (talk) 17:44, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

• 2016, Futurism, We Must Reach the Final Frontier: The Legacy of John Glenn
• 2016, The Economist, "Exploring the final frontier" (dead-tree business magazine)
• 2016, CNN, Discovering the 'final frontier' of our universe (TV news network)
• 2016, NPR, New Satellite Provides Weather Forecasts For The Final Frontier (U.S. government public radio network)
• 2016, New Scientist, Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier (dead-tree science magazine)
• 2016, Wharton School of Business, The Final Frontier: How Entrepreneurs Cracked the Aerospace Industry
• 2016, National Review, Glenn, Aldrin, NASA . . . and Gingrich? "Men like the very-much-alive Aldrin and the late John Glenn risked their lives so that mankind could explore that final frontier." (dead-tree U.S. conservative right wing politics magazine)
• 2016, Time, Astronauts Have Been Celebrating Thanksgiving in Space Since 1973. Here’s How "Celebrating American Thanksgiving on the Final Frontier has been a tradition of the United State’s space program for decades." (dead-tree news magazine)
• 2016, The Times, Japanese give Branson a no-frills rival in space race "When Sir Richard Branson gets round to conquering his final frontier with the promise to boldly go where no man (or woman) has gone before on a passenger aircraft and pop into space, he may not be alone." (dead-tree newspaper)
• 2016, Air Force Times, Need to know, 2016: Air Force Space Command on the final frontier (dead-tree U.S. military newspaper)
• 2016, The Guardian, The Guardian view on space exploration: the final frontier (dead-tree newspaper)
• 2014, CNBC, The final frontier: Universal space travel (TV business news network)
• 2013, The Atlantic, Mars, Our First Outpost on the Final Frontier (dead-tree magazine)
• 2012, The Telegraph, Voyager: to the Final Frontier, BBC Four, review (dead-tree newspaper)

-- 65.94.168.229 07:12, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

• Delete as it is SoP. — SMUconlaw (talk) 19:22, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

  How is it an SoP, "outer space" doesn't fit the definitions of frontier -- 65.94.168.229 05:38, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

• RFV passed, and added to RFD. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:13, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

RFD discussion: April–August 2017

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final frontier

Sense "outer space". Currently at WT:RFV#final frontier (closed as passed) and soon to be archived to Talk:final frontier. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:14, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

• Keep. Without previous knowledge of Star Trek, there's no guessing what people are referring to when they call outer space the "final frontier". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 06:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

• Keep. Could equally mean time, for time travel, but doesn't. Equinox ◑ 16:11, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
• Keep Purplebackpack89 11:13, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
• RFD kept per above consensus. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:04, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
• Keep. I know the definition through pop-cultural osmosis. 'Nuff said. W3ird N3rd (talk) 21:21, 7 August 2017 (UTC)