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> In a message dated 2/18/01 8:58:56 PM Mountain Standard Time,
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> > I have been thinking about the "living ship" or the "ship with a
> > personality"
> > used on Andromeda, Blake's Seven, and to a lesser extent on Farscape.
It
> > seems related to me to such characters as KITT, the Knightrider car, my
> > Mother the Car, the talking figurehead of the Argo, and even Balaam's
ass
> > in
> > the Bible. I am sure Brin-listers can think of other examples.
> >
>
> Living ships? Well, let's get the list going
> Nothing else from popular culture comes to mind at the moment, though I am
> sure that more exist. My mind isn't in book mode right now, so I don't
> recall anything from there at the moment.
>
The Tardis is sometimes portrayed as living, or even sentient.
The TV series occasionally referred to it as having a personality, but
it didn't have any effective way to communicate.
The spin-off books, which don't have a reset button, took the idea further
There were tardises that looked human on the outside, to human eyes (though
the real appearance of all tardises is apparently a Lovecraftian
monstrosity).
'It is a wise crow that knows which way the camel points' - Pratchett
Robert Shaw
