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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood."''
|'''Simon Tam''', ''[[Firefly]]'' {{spoiler|Actually a subversion; she's faking it.}}}}
A walking, talking female avatar of a [[Sapient Ship]].
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* In the ''[[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]]'' strip "A Life of Matter and Death", the TARDIS manifests a mental projection of herself in the form of a veiled grey lady.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the fanfic series ''[[Legion's Quest]]'', Minerva, the A.I. who pilots Legion's starship, is eventually given a fully biological body without actually disconnecting her control over the ship.
== [[Film]] ==
* SAL9000 in ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'' ([[The Cameo|played]] by [[Murphy Brown|Candice Bergen]]) is almost neuter, but female (and sounds very like Eldon Tyrell's computer in ''[[Blade Runner]]'').
* [[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.
* Somewhat inverted in ''[[Babylon 5
== [[Literature]] ==
* Dora, Lazarus Long's starship in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough For Love]]''. Dora appears again in later works, especially ''[[The Number of the Beast]]''.
* Another Heinlein example: Gay Deceiver in ''[[Number of the Beast]]'' and later works. Interestingly, she was originally a simple voice-controlled autopilot with a collection of randomized responses intended to make her ''sound'' sapient, but after a visit to [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|Oz]] she acquired genuine sapience.
* [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[The Ship Who...]] Sang'', and later related books.
** ''The Ship Who Searched'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]] {{spoiler|featured a brainship who financed the creation of a remote-operated android accessory so she could be her human partner's... [[Robosexual|partner]]}}.
** Another book from that series has a brainship who had gone through a terrible traumatic event; in [[There Are No Therapists|therapy]] a counselor had her channel her emotions and frustrations into art, and eventually had her create a self portrait. He expected her to paint a projection of herself as a human, if she hadn't had the genetic defects that landed her in a brainship, but she painted her shipself with some anthropomorphic elements.
* In the ''[[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.
** And it's implied others followed suit. The Master's timeship combined this with [[Big Eater]] in ''[[Faction Paradox]]'' stories.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'' portion of the [[Expanded Universe]]:
** Xyon's ship is controlled by a female personality that was apparently a criminal before her death.
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* Gypsy from [[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.
* Sandstrom from [[Hyperdrive]].
* [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
== [[Radio]] ==
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* Sheila the tank (later transferred into various other vehicles and structures) from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''.
* In the [[Bollywood Halo]] IGN April Fools parody Cortana is presented as a more literal and straight version of this trope as she is shown as a living human controlling the ship not a hologram. It is also implied in the parody that she has a (possibly) romantic relationship with Master Chief.
* ''[[Fenspace]]'' has dozens of Spaceship Girls. And a few Spaceship Animals, too.
* ''[[The Sea Queens]]'' greatly expands on this trope.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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