[Guide allows himself a small sigh. It would be easier to show than to tell, but the Vulcan is not so easy to link with at this distance.]

Wraith ships are grown, as plants grow. They heal, they feed, and they each have a unique temperament. All of our technology is similarly organic in nature.

This ship, however, was constructed. It serves its purpose, but it is not alive; at least not by any definition of the word that I know. Its personality is imagined, not real. In that sense, it is dead.