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* In ''[[Dune]]'', a distrans is a device for producing a temporary neural imprint on the nervous system of bats or birds. The creature's normal cry then carries the message imprint which can be sorted from that carrier wave by another distrans. In other words, it implants a message into the animal which can be later read in its normal vocalization, sort of like a modern-day telephone/radio scrambler.

* ''[[The Restaurant At the End of The Universe]]''. Earth is the computer that Deep Thought created to discover the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Because he was a part of Earth's organic matrix, the Question (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) is stored in Arthur Dent's brain wave patterns. Near the end of the book he and Ford Prefect try to discover the Question by introducing a random element that can be shaped by that pattern - drawing Scrabble tiles from a bag without looking.

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* ''[[Lexx]]'': Assistant Deputy Back-Up Courier Stanley Tweedle had vital data about the Divine Order's superweapon, the Lexx, encoded in amino acids stored in a false tooth.

** It seems that by the 24th century, the Klingons have actually learned a few things. This is slightly more plausible than the ''Enterprise'' example.

** The Ancient Humanoid [[Precursors]] in "The Chase" encoded a message to their descendants- us, as well as the Klingons, Cardassians, Romulans, Bolians, Yridians, Vulcans... you get the idea.

** In "Transfigurations," Data and Geordi examine a Zalkonian memory storage device from mysterious "John Doe's" escape pod that is stated to use a chemical matrix for data storage. It's basically the escape pod's Black Box.

* ''[[Fringe]]'' has done this a couple of times, notably in the first season when ZFT would leave a "calling card" in the DNA of their genetically engineered weapons.

** A similar calling card was later discovered on the Nazi toxin in Season 2, in this case, the image of the seahorse, {{spoiler|a clue that Walter Bishop's father's research had been used to create the toxin}}.

* [[Emperor Scientist|Ansem the Wise]] hides research data within [[The Hero|Sora]] in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', although it is left vague on how he does this.

* ''[[Mass Effect]]'': Protheans possess [[Bizarre Alien Senses]] that allow them to read biomarkers of any living creature (and even from some inorganic objects that come into contact with the living) and store this information. This is how their Beacons work, too.

 

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