Moby Dick

"Really, you don't think you could control other people's dreams. My father read me Mody Dick since I was seven years old. Do you have any idea how long I dreamt being eaten by a whale?"

- Rodney McKay

Moby Dick is a novel first published in 1851 by American author Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab who seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. Rodney McKay's father once read him Mody Dick as a child and the fear of being eaten by a Whale often led to many nightmares for him, which continue to this day.

John Sheppard also mistakenly refered to the Flagisallus as a whale when it is infact a fish.