The Heart of Gold

You see before you a huge starship, one hundred and fifty metres long, shaped like a sleek running shoe, prefectly white and mind-bogglingly beautiful. At the heart of it, unseen, lies a small gold box which carries within it the most brain-wrenching device ever conceived, a device that makes this starship unique in the history of the Galaxy, a device after which the ship has been named - the Heart of Gold.