First Contact (Ponte/Chávarri) 2007

Ten years mining stardust
And now our ship's got fresh instructions:
New rendezvous coordinates
Beyond the blind gate of Planck's wormhole.

Tinheads we may be,
But our programs can feel the pain of treason
When we now appear
Amidst the weapons of a hostile race.


HAL 9000: I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit.

Dave Bowman: All right, HAL; I'll go in through the emergency airlock.

Mother: Danger. The emergency destruct system is now activated.

HAL 9000: This thing has cropped up before and it has always been due
to human error. (*)


Mankind must have thought
"Let's send the rusties, they're expendable".
Sitting on their soft balls,
Wanting to learn facts from a distance.

Tinfolk we may be,
But no-one's ever heard of a hardware fool.
Something they'll realise
When we show our new friends the way to Earth.


(*) Excerpts from Alien and 2001: A Space Odissey, as can
be found in lo-res audio files throughout the Internet.