Week 13 delivered six articles, thirteen sci-fi franchises, and a new column record for Douglas Adams at five appearances—one for every invisible thing running beneath the surface of the week's arguments about water, surveillance, credit, protection, and a Lego set in near-space.

In which Loki contemplates Voyager's 69-kilobyte computer, the 73,000-year journey to the nearest star, and the cheerful humiliation of sending your absolute best into a universe that will still have time to get dramatically better at everything.