Ok, first Six then Remote.
So I don't forget.
Ok Six first.
I used to be a HUGE fan of Battlestar Galactica (the "reimagined" one that was showing early this decade). Anyways, I won't go into how that was such a huge disappointment.
YES I WILL GO INTO HUGE BSG SPOILERS BUT I DON'T CARE SINCE I'M SO DISAPPOINTED BY IT.
Anyways, the Cylons have figured out how to make themselves essentially human so they can infiltrate the Colonial populations. There are twelve of these human-looking models, seven of them actually have numbers. One through to Six and Eight: the "Significant Seven." There's actually a Seven but he seems to be a lame plot device of a storyline speeding down the toilet.
Anyways, voila: Number Six.

Getting into spoilers, this problem isn't one of the Cylons, but someone or "thing" in Baltar's head telling him what to do since he's a spineless idiot most of the time.
So, another name the Colonials use for Cylons is "toasters" (mostly from their more mechanical variations), hence the whole toaster thing. And if Six the toaster wants wings there are Cylon "raiders" which are the fighters and Cylon models that are pilots.
See, I needed to write down the remote thing because I go distracted and forgot about it.
The whole remote thing is coming up because after five years of waiting Diane Duane finally finished her latest book in her So You Want to Be a Wizard Series,
A Wizard of Mars. Basically in the previous book a non-wizard helped a LOT in a battle against the Inventor of Death Itself (yes, in the books It is actually referred to as It with a capital "i"), the Lone Power. This helping stopped the acceleration of the death of the universe, so as a reward an alien wizard friend gave her remote almost unlimited transport abilities to anywhere in the universe. This alien happens to be in charge of all wizardly transportation in the galaxy, so configuring her set up really wasn't much of a problem.

The remote has slowly been "evolving" over the last few books, but this is one of its newest features.

There. I explained.
