Has no one had a car or their parents had a car that they loved that felt like it almost had a personality of its own? For me on Star Trek, the ships that feel the most like characters are the TOS Enterprise and Voyager.
I have not. A car is an annoyance, and a means of conveyance. Even the most named vehicles my friends and I had still were just a means of conveyance, convenient at best. Few vehicles have engendered much emotion from me, aside from my bike.
Absolutely! I have dear memories of my Father's longest owned car. I named my first car Green Wolf. After I crashed him, I mourned like I did for our family dogs. His number plate is mounted on the wall right in front of me. My second first car is called Silver Blood (coz his color, the shame of needing a car replacement, and as Trek reference!)
Those are AIs that run vehicles/vessels. They're not the vehicles/vessels themselves. They're just housed within them. Examples of vessels/vehicles that are characters would be Herbie, Gladys Crabtree who was reincarnated as a 1928 Porter, Speed Buggy, and The Lexx.
There's a story in one of Shatner's biographies about how Gene Roddenberry didn't get along with one of his producers, who wrote the Enterprise more as a tool than a character (and I think wanted to destroy the Enterprise, but I don't think this was Harve Bennett). The argument was that Gene had been a bomber pilot during WWII, and they got to know and love their planes. The other guy was a helicopter pilot, where the phrase "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing" was originated. It's that sort of difference that affected how the Enterprise was written. Mark
I don't normally like spade-shaped hulls, but this is one of the best looking ships I've seen in Star Trek.
I tried to watch this a year or two ago via youtube and didn't enjoy it as much as I did as a kid..... Why would you reincarnate as a car?
To really annoy your only son. (if I remember correctly, I believe that she tells him in the first episode she didn't get a choice and that is also why most folks choose not to)