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Appreciation post for the Hephaestus crew using the word 'boat' to refer to spaceships

Ep9 The Empty Man Cometh

EIFFEL: Unfortunately the good folks at Goddard Futuristics spared every expense when they put together this boat. [referring to the Hephaestus]

Ep23 No Pressure

EIFFEL: The power and the support systems on this boat do kinda have a rocky relationship… [referring to Lovelace's shuttle]

Ep27 Knock, Knock

MINKOWSKI: I don't trust anyone on this boat right now. [referring to the Hephaestus]

Ep29 Pan-Pan

LOVELACE: Believe me, kids, right now I'm up for killing everything and everyone on this boat. But I promise the grid is down. [referring to the Hephaestus]

Ep30 Mayday

EIFFEL: Eiffel's Action Plan #1: turn this boat around, get back to the Hephaestus. [referring to Lovelace's shuttle]

Ep42 Time to Kill

EIFFEL: And we're sure our little lifeboat can survive the three hour tour? [referring to the experimental module]

Ep61 Brave New World

MINKOWSKI: Miss Young, you're going to go up to the bridge, you're going to get me flight capabilities, and then you and Kepler are going to get the hell off my boat. [referring to the Sol]

#Pretty sure this is all of the uses of 'boat' to actually refer to a spaceship or space station #There's something in the fact that it's only the protagonists who do this #Yes it's partly that we spend more time with them and hear more of their quips #but also there's something about the attitude it reflects towards these high tech (if run down) spacecraft #'Yes we're 8 lightyears from Earth but this is basically a fucked up boat'#They use this phrasing in moments of anger and frustration #Sometimes it's a way of disparaging the station/ship #Sometimes it's a way of asserting ownership over it #Sometimes it's a way of emphasising the sense of confinement and risk #They are sailors trapped together on a boat among the stars at the mercy of the storm…#Also it fits with the retro-futuristic vibe of the Hephaestus #It's a space station but spiritually it's a boat with a patchwork of repairs that's just sprung another leak #I do kinda want to give a honorary mention to Hera's 'speaking as the ship we're going down'#because that's also a nautical way of talking about the Hephaestus #and also because I feel bad when I write a 'Hephaestus Crew' post that doesn't include her #wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #renee minkowski #isabel lovelace #the empty man posteth

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