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== Film ==
* ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'': HAL, while not the ship but its controlling computer.
* ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]''. Shad sets forth on his quest to find [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai]] in Nell, one of the few spacecraft in [[Science Fiction]] that appears to have breasts ([
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* ''[[The Walrus And The Warwolf]]'': there is a sapient spaceship that expresses irritation with the pirates on board who are distracting it from contemplating the deeper mysteries of the universe. The pirates think the ship is a flying island and {{spoiler|accidentally break its black hole reactor, destroying the ship.}}
* ''[[Tuf Voyaging]]'': subverted, where the biological warship Tuf 'inherits' as the last surviving member of a freelance salvage team is specifically NOT sapient, though it could have been made so; there is mention of other Earth warships with AI installed mutinying and/or fighting each other.
* ''[[The Fall Of The Galaxy]]'': the fleet of the Bargon Empire almost entirely consists of small biomechanical raider ships instead of the [[Standard Sci
* ''[[Literature/The Artifact|The Artifact]]'': all Brotherhood ships are cybernetically "alive", Boaz has even managed to become self aware.
* ''[[Faction Paradox]]'': timeships, lovely ships capable of time travel. [[Oh Crap|Except when they are sapient]]. [[It Got Worse|Or they happen to rebel. Or if they happen to be psychotic.]]
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Andromeda]]'': the "Andromeda Ascendant" is a ship with an AI. And by no means the only Commonwealth capital ship with one. Most have a [[Spaceship Girl|semi-autonomous android avatar]] as well.
* ''[[Blake's Seven
* ''[[Lexx]]'': the titular ship is mostly (and often gruesomely) biological. It can speak directly to its crew, and its hobbies include blowing up planets. Strangely enough, it even reproduces at the end of the series, spawning a smaller light-white version of itself when it dies...of old age. Since Little Lexx has no mechanical parts added to the hull or machinery of any kind like the original's cryo-pods and moth breeder bay, it's likely that the non-organic elements were added to the original as it was growing. Little Lexx even has a glowing angler horn.
* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'': ''Moya'' is a Leviathan, one of a species of sentient biological starships who communicate through their bonded Pilots. Her son ''Talyn'', as a hybrid, does not need a Pilot to communicate. Instead, he has a direct neural link to his commander that can be used by any species (presumably.)
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** The original AI for the Babylon 5 station itself was apparently sentient. It also had an extremely surly and abrasive personality so it was disabled in favour of the basic AI seen for most of the show. One episode had the original AI inadvertently reactivated. It drove the crew to distraction.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'': The Cylons of the 2004 re-launch despite being mechanical in appearance, the Base Stars are controlled by a humanoid cylon that is fully integrated into the ship. They're a bit on the "crazy" side though. {{spoiler|The Centurions and fighters also have the ''capability'' to become sapient, but are intentionally kept at significantly lower levels of intelligence to keep them inline, making them [[Organic Technology]] for most of the series.}}
* The Doctor's TARDIS in ''[[
{{quote| '''Doctor''': {{spoiler|She's the TARDIS. But she's a woman! And the TARDIS! And a woman!!}}<br />
'''Amy''': {{spoiler|...Did you close your eyes and wish ''really'' hard?}} }}
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