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Calling Earth "Terra" may be a result of an [[Earth That Was]] scenario.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* [[Keith Laumer]]'s ''[[Retief (Literature)|Retief]]'' stories frequently use the abbreviated "Terry" for Terrestrial. There's no sense of it being derogatory, as the Terries use it themselves often enough.
* In [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Line of Delirium]]'' trilogy, Earth is renamed Terra and serves as the capital of the [[The Empire|Human Empire]].
* "Terra" and "Terrans" are used throughout [[H. Beam Piper]]'s "Terro-Human Future History".
* "Terra" is the most common name for the home planet of Perry Rhodan.
* Earth has become known as "Terra" in S.L. Viehl's ''[[Stardoc]]'' series.
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* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Mirror Universe]] has the Terran Empire (until it collapses, at least). The main universe occasionally also refers to our solar system as the Terran System (though it's more frequently known as the Sol system or Sector 001).
** Spock was asked in one Original Series episode if he was "Terran or Vulcan."
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* In ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' it was mentioned once that the [[Precursors|Ancients]] called earth Terra, of course, [[Justified Trope|Latin is derived from their language]].
** Though most of the time the Goa'uld word, Tau'ri, is used for humans from earth.
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