The space freighter Serene Dawn had taken off for the
planet Zeron 5, a journey that would take nearly one
earth year to complete. Steve the skipper and Tony the
navigator put the craft into warp drive, set the
automatic control system and had started to relax. They
took off their spacesuits and were just wearing tee
shirts and little shorts.

There was, however, an essential difference between the
two crew members, Steve was human and Tony was an
android. Androids looked exactly like humans, had human
emotions and needs, the only difference was that they
couldn’t reproduce. For this …