sentient spaceship theme
There is a spaceship with a mind of its own. This theme covers anything from a spaceship installed with an advanced artificial intelligence to more exotic possibilities, including intelligent entities constructed from biological components that function as spaceships to other beings.
Examples
In "Batteries Not Included" (1987), a family of small living spaceships of extraterrestrial origin helped save a property development threatened apartment block from being demolished.
12 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng3x20 | choice | Gomtuu was a living, thinking organic being that functioned as a spaceship. |
| voy6x05 | choice | Tom was bewitched by an alien shuttlecraft, named Alice, with a mind of its own. |
| futurama4x03 | major | The Planet Express ship behaved as a living being after being installed with a HAL-like AI. |
| movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | major | The spacecraft Discovery One was operated by the powerful AI HAL 9000. |
| movie: Batteries Not Included (1987) | major | A family of small, sentient spaceships came out of nowhere to help the residents of a dumpy apartment building from getting evicted. |
| movie: Dark Star (1974) | major | The starship Dark Star computer talked with the crew in a sophisticated manner and seemed to control much of the ship's operation. |
| movie: Flight of the Navigator (1986) | major | David learned to pilot a strange alien, spaceship the was controlled by a powerful AI named Max. |
| movie: Xenogenesis (1978) | major | Raj and Laurie were traveling through outer space in an enormous, sentient spaceship. |
| bbf2x13 | minor | Sheridan admired Vorgon spaceship which was organic and seemed to act on its own volition. |
| movie: Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) | minor | The ship computer, which had a mind of its own, went haywire and set the ship on a collision course with the sun. |