At the owners' expense.
Sacred Cow Shipyards
is a web series on YouTube created in 2020 by a currently unknown and somewhat snarky entity. The channel purports to offer "a serious, quasi-historical, (mostly) sober look at some of the most famous ships, vessels, installations, and other such things from science fiction and science-fiction-adjacent content". Once you get past the Unreliable Narrator concerning the "The Dockmaster"'s origins and the current Framing Device of an A.I. Is a Crapshoot-tending-towards-Spiteful A.I. looking in on "humies'" science fiction offerings, the channel is Analysis Channel that tries to look at whether or not individual ships and other mechanical systems make sense primarily in-universe, but also as a (supposedly) objective, external observer.
Tropes:
- Action-Hogging Opening: While the rest of the video will probably consist of still images, an occasional intro is used that actually depicts the Shipyards' Cubifier in action.
- Analysis Channel: The channel's apparent entire existence is to kibitz about anything and everything the Dockmaster finds annoying in science fiction stories.
- Extremely Short Intro Sequence: Some of the episode intros are only a few seconds long.
- Hates Everyone Equally: No race of organics will not be referred to as "squishies" and no squishy shall escape his disdain.
- Ominous Cube: No one really knows what the Dockmaster does with all those cubes, but a lot of people sure do keep asking.
- Worldbuilding: The Dockmaster has made repeated references to the Shipyards themselves that are inherently contradictory, but one can be fairly certain he has a collection of Killer Robot A.I.s at least visiting the station occasionally, including GLaDOS and HAL9000.
- What Measure Is a Non-Super?: Just to drive home the point, suffice to say the Dockmaster has a... pretty low opinion of "humies".
