Battlestar Galactica | “I’m A Machine” [source]
“In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? No? Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.
I don’t want to be human! I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I-I want to… I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to… I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me! I’m a machine, and I can know much more! I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way.“
(-John Cavil [Cylon Model 01], Battlestar Galactica s.4:ep.17 "No Exit”)