How was a dead ship suddenly coming back to life?

Nobody on this dead ship was going to call her mother.

What if the dead ships were lonely, looking for company?

It would be cold down there and lonely with only a dead ship waiting.

The area was a good distance away from the current battlefield of dead ships.

She started walking toward the dead ship, and he kept up, shaking his head at her, making fun.

But before leaving his dead ship, he had one final duty to perform.

She broke touch and began to wander through the dead ship.

On the screen now was the strange, seemingly dead ship.

He turned on the diving light and began to swim clear of the dead ship.

He saw no reason to be on the bridge while they ran scans of a dead ship.

Three minutes and eight seconds later he beamed into the dead ship below.

To have come all this way to find a dead ship would have been beyond words.

At least, as intact as a dead ship could be.

Many other dead ships can be seen above water, beached on almost every shore.

If this dead ship should not be the end for them, would they be enemies again?

We'd rather be stuck where we can live than float forever in a dead ship."

This time it wasn't as easy to slip between the scarred plates of the dead ship.

Sensors showed that the majority of dead ships were T'kaan.

Our plummet toward the reef of dead ships grew alarming.

A dead ship doesn't show much different from a nickle-iron asteroid."

They found a dead ship with a dead crew.

So did he learn that there was no road out of this wondrous castle save back down the rock to the dead ships.

We have no life-form readings at all from any of these dead ships."

Then the shuttle disappeared entirely, enveloped in the giant dead ship.