I never could figure out why you'd have freaking robots piloting a ship, when you could build the ship AS a robot...makes sense, eh?
i.e. as one of Fred Saberhagens Berserkers...
I thought the same thing. Ever notice how much sci-fi has been derived from Saberhagen's work? Seriously - Star Wars' Death Star, the Terminator movies, The Matrix, Dan Simmons' TechnoCore from the Hyperion series of novels, the Borg from Star Trek, and now both incarnations of Battlestar.
All examples of technology gone horribly wrong, and desperate humans trying to find a way to defeat it.
/letting my geek-light shine.