Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Tom Henschel: Talking Android: Dr. Hephaestus' Staff

Quotes 

• Shad : Did you know that there's a form in the black galaxy who's children have no immune system till the age of five cycles? That means that the slightest trace of infection they would rot just like fallen fruit.

  Talking Android : I have heard of them. The Huddites.

  Nanelia : Who asked you?

  Shad : When they reach the age of five cycles, all the relatives gather together in a special room, and they watch while the child tears and bites at this plastoid with its teeth and nails, till it breaks out into the arms of its parents, feels their skin for the first time, feels the wetness on their cheeks for the first time.

  Talking Android : [to Nanelia, realizing what Shad's up to]  It's horrible out there. Forms preying on other forms. Death.

  Shad : Most of them never do develop immunities. They die shortly afterwards, but the Huddites still feel that the breaking out ceremony is very beautiful.