The Spline had become carriers, earning their place in the universe by hiring themselves out to any one of a hundred species.
It wasn’t a bad strategy for racial survival, Parz mused. The Spline must work far beyond the bubble of space explored by humankind before the Qax Occupation — beyond, even, the larger volume worked by the Qax, within which humanity’s sad little zone was embedded.
It wasn’t a bad strategy for racial survival, Parz mused. The Spline must work far beyond the bubble of space explored by humankind before the Qax Occupation — beyond, even, the larger volume worked by the Qax, within which humanity’s sad little zone was embedded.
"Don't touch anything. The TARDIS will get huffy if you mess."
— The Doctor, Doctor Who, "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"
And my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel
I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield
Once upon a lifetime, I died a pioneer
Now I sing within a spaceship's heart - does anybody hear?
I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield
Once upon a lifetime, I died a pioneer
Now I sing within a spaceship's heart - does anybody hear?
Jevee: Ship A.I.s like yourself are not wired right for sensitive work like this.
Ennesby: If you think I'm not sensitive enough, perhaps you'd like me to try being careless while I'm piloting your sorry sack of tainted fluids across the galaxy.
Captain Tagon: Colonel, please don't upset our ride.
Ennesby: If you think I'm not sensitive enough, perhaps you'd like me to try being careless while I'm piloting your sorry sack of tainted fluids across the galaxy.
Captain Tagon: Colonel, please don't upset our ride.
For although I was building a ship, I was building so much more. I was building a new race. A race of one. A race of millions. I was singular and plural all at once. I was alive and I was a machine. Engines were a part of me. Computers linked directly with my brain and soon the link was forgotten and the line disappeared. Sensors were my senses. I was vast. Vast enough to release the multitude.
—Toomin, Animorphs - The Ellimist Chronicles
The first explorers of Earth had long since come to the limits of flesh and blood; as soon as their machines were better than their bodies, it was time to move. First their brains, and then their thoughts alone, they transferred into shining new homes of metal and of plastic. In these, they roamed among the stars. They no longer built spaceships. They were spaceships.
Dan!King of Hyrule: They rode boats.
Arin!King of Hyrule: They were boats! (beat) That's right, Link - you've got boat blood in you!
