Because you're talking about lion ships combining into a Voltron.

Look...Shiro?? Was it?

I come from a world where a 'ship' is just a boat. So, to put things into perspective, you're telling me about giant lion shaped boats that fly in space that combine to form something that isn't a lion-shaped space boat? But is instead...a...'robot?' Is that what you called it? The only 'robot' I've seen is the one that came with the room I'm staying in and all that one does is press buttons on a controller plugged into a 'video game.' [Hey cool. Darin's got a R.O.B.]

So, either these things make you hallucinate fantastic things or everything you just said to me is real and my frame of reference for these terms is anachronistically skewed.

...And since no one's been able to reliably tell me what's in these things I might actually be leaning towards the former.