Cally, Orac and others in “Unfinished Business”

Cally

So what is wrong?

You deduced it yourself earlier. Space Command has long tried to perfect a course interceptor attuned to the circuitry of navigational computers and rational coordinators like Zen. The scientists on Auron, however, had the wit to aim for the weaker point.

The human brain.

Correct.

Cally

A telepathic order was beamed to Blake to force him reroute to that asteroid?

As you, yourself, foresaw.

So tell us something new.

It is to Blake that you should look for the new.

What's that supposed to mean? That they are still influencing him?

Correct again.

But how? A device of that kind would need an enormous power source.

Agreed. But now that they...

[Interrupting] Now that they are close at hand, low power; of course.