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[[File:KaranSjet.jpg|link=Homeworld (Video Game)|rightframe|Karan's not a [[Spaceship Girl]], but [[Mission Control|she]] does [[Computer Voice|come]] very [[Unusual User Interface|close]].]]

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''

* In the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', the Cylons' ships-- or at least their FTL drives -- are controlled by "hybrids," human-looking women who lie in a tub full of goo hooked up to cables that look a lot like the ones in ''The Matrix''; ''Razor'' establishes that they were created by {{spoiler|experiments involving vivisected humans}}. The hybrid constantly babbles a stream of partly-technical, partly-prophetic-sounding, partly-nonsense words, but doesn't seem conscious in any real sense most of the time. When the Cylons give the order to make an FTL jump, the hybrid gasps "Jump" orgasmically as the ship does so. When such an order is about to be given at a very significant moment:

* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Hybrot |Hybrots]] are robots with partially organic CPUs made by spreading rat neurons suspended in a nutrient solution on a computer chip. They've only lived a few weeks to a couple months so far, though with better life-support they could live up to two years.