"You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre, and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take you in, but may we ask this question—will we too catch the planetdeath disease?"
—Voice of the Planet, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sarkoff: Beautiful, aren't they. Earth insects of the order Lepidoptera.
Blake: Butterflies.
Sarkoff: Ah, so you're an historian, are you?
Blake: No, but I did study some natural history.
Sarkoff: It's interesting, isn't it, that when that term "natural history" was originated, it referred to the study of living things. It was much later that it came to mean the study of things long since past and dead. History in its more conventional sense.
Blake: Butterflies.
Sarkoff: Ah, so you're an historian, are you?
Blake: No, but I did study some natural history.
Sarkoff: It's interesting, isn't it, that when that term "natural history" was originated, it referred to the study of living things. It was much later that it came to mean the study of things long since past and dead. History in its more conventional sense.
— Blake's 7, "Bounty"
