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{{quote|''"Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood."''|'''Simon Tam''', ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' {{spoiler|Actually a subversion; she's faking it.}}}}

* ''[[Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl]]'': the ship [[media:1143698982844.jpg|Jan-puu]], who crashes into Hazumu, is the ditzy and affectionate type. She considers the crash that killed Hazumu and set the series in motion to be her first kiss.

* ''[[Tenchi Muyo]]'': Ryo-ohki, [[The Speechless]] [[Weasel Mascot]], eventually develops a couple of cute girl forms. Also, [[media:1126135980051.jpg|Tsunami]], progenitor of the space trees, and goddess and most powerful warship of Jurai.

* ''[[Gao Gai Gar]]'s'' {{spoiler|Penchinon}} is a subversion. {{spoiler|After Pasdar is destroyed, it is revealed that he is the AI system for Soldat-J's J-Ark. All Penchinon really is...is an eye.}} Also subverted because, even in his 'old' form, {{spoiler|Penchinon}} is some kind of... {{spoiler|anchor-eyed, boat-person with a spinning head (but no neck), big teeth, a sailor uniform, and a tendency to go '' '''"BREEEEEEEEE!!"''' ''.}}

* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' comic miniseries "The Forgotten", in which the Doctor and Martha Jones find themselves in a museum devoted to the Doctor's past lives, Martha {{spoiler|turns out to be a mental projection of the TARDIS itself, who can take on the form and personality of anyone who has ever traveled in the TARDIS, to aid him in a fight against an invader. Most of the personalities it takes on are female (but then, so have been most of the Doctor's companions)}}. A similar idea would surface in the TV series later on.

** In the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine (Magazine)|Doctor Who Magazine]]'' strip "A Life of Matter and Death", the TARDIS manifests a mental projection of herself in the form of a veiled grey lady.

* [[Older Than They Think]]; the Harryhausen version of ''[[Jason and The Argonauts]]'' has the Argo's figurehead of Hera speak to Jason to give him advice. This detail wasn't in the original story, however.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels, ultra-advanced TARDISes from the future could use their chameleon circuits to take human form. The one we meet appears as an attractive young woman (in an amusing [[Continuity Nod]] we're told she was once stuck as a 1960s policewoman). The Doctor's cyborg companion Compassion later takes on characteristics of the TARDIS and became the prototype for the class.

* In the ''[[Star Trek New Frontier]]'' portion of the [[Expanded Universe]]:

* Darcy in ''[[Vampirates (Literature)|Vampirates]]'' "describes herself as "Figurehead by day, figure of fun by night!"

* A car, not a ship, but [[Stephen King]]'s ''Christine''. Which was clearly the source for "Alice" in ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'', below.

* Inverted in the [[Iain M Banks|Iain. M Banks]] novel ''Matter''; the Special Circumstances vessel 'liveware problem' has a man as its human avatar, and offers to sleep with one of the protagonists.

* ''[[Andromeda]]'' and the titular starship, with her holographic and robotic avatars: Rommie, the ship's AI given an android body. The ship's AI also looks like Rommie, though the two became separate characters to a degree. Most of the High Guard ships of her class seen in the series had female avatars (with the explanation being that humans and a number of other species prefer female avatars), though we have had several on-screen examples of male AIs, usually portrayed by someone who appeared on [[Stargate SG 1]] or [[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]].

* Holly, the AI interface aboard the ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', starts off as male but undergoes a virtual-sex change (as part of an [[The Nth Doctor|Nth Doctor shift]]) between the second and third series. She disappears after series five along with the ship itself, and the male Holly returns at the end of series seven (twofold! The ship is actually a nanite recreation of the ship and its crew from a time before the accident, so its Holly serves Captain Hollister and has no relationship with the Boys from the 'Dwarf. The version of Holly on the watch Lister found, on the other hand, knows them but is suffering from 'computer senility' and is a bit less useful than Holly of old.

* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'', an "upgrade" to the ''Enterprise'''s computer causes it to start talking flirtatiously and calling the captain "Dear". Kirk said that the folks the repairs had been outsourced to thought the computer needed a personality, "so they gave it one." [[Star Trek the Next Generation]] and [[Star Trek Voyager]] both had female voices for the ships computer- logical, since they were voiced by Gene Roddenberry's wife. The ships were never completely sentient, though.

** "Alice" in ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]''. [[Clingy Jealous Girl|To]] [[Stalker With a Crush|a]] very uncomfortable [[Ax Crazy|extent]].

* Subverted in ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' when River claims to have merged with ''Serenity'' -- but this turns out to have been a ploy to get the crew out of a rather dire situation.

* ''Moya'' on ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' is a Leviathan, one of a race of [[Organic Technology|living ships]]. She even gives birth to a bouncing baby spaceship. Other Leviathans, of both genders, (with mixed-gender pilots, sometimes) also showed up.

* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor has always called the TARDIS "she" and insisted to companions that she is sentient; the new series in particular has gone full-tilt into Doctor/TARDIS [[Robo Ship|RoboShipping]].

* Gypsy from [[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]], who was directly wired into the Satellite of Love and controlled its higher functions. A more literal example was the Magic Voice.

* [http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/may-12-2011-stargate-universe-beyond-season-2-what-might-have-been/ Apparently,] one of the ideas for a followup to ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]'' would have had Eli becoming a Spaceship Boy...

* Karan Sjet from ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]''. In truth, she is a scientist that sacrificed herself to become the Mothership's core, and is now the Mothership's voice and "soul" through the entire game. In the sequel she continues being the Mothership, but the ship itself changes.

* the 100-Series Observational Realians on the Durandal from [[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]

** In ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'', EDI is {{spoiler|[[Ascended Extra|promoted to full squad status]] by virtue of taking over an experimental Cerberus robot form. Shepard can play matchmaker with her and Joker, if the player likes.}}

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'s'' starships have embedded AIs that assist in the running and maintenance of the ship, that develop a hologram avatar that gives the meatbags inside the ship something to focus on when they're trying to talk. Most of these are actually ''male'', probably to instill respect in a male-heavy military environment, but the ''Athens'' had Athena, a blue-skinned, red haired human girl. When the characters reunite with Petey and discover that his ears have become prodigious, he informs them that the algorithms determining an AI's hologram avatar are outside the AI's control, but the bigger ears indicate moving up in station, as it were. Incidentally, only two AIs aren't subject to this-Ennesby, an ex-computer virus and boy band with a separate robotic body, and TAG, the AI of the Touch-and-Go; this is because they both reside in physical units as opposed to the ship itself (although TAG does appear to have his rather firmly affixed to the floor of the computer room).

* ''[[Star Trek the Animated Series]]'' revisits the original series plot, with the jealous computer becoming actively hostile toward the women on the ship.

* Aya from [[Green Lantern the Animated Series (Animation)|Green Lantern the Animated Series]] was originally just the artificial intelligence of the Lantern's [[Cool Starship]] until she created a body for herself.