Synopsis
In the future, Androids are in hiding. Android Max 404 works as an assistant to Dr. Daniel on an space station where they conduct illegal experiments. Dr. Daniel's current project is creating the perfect female android, Cassandra, but he requires a human female to activate it. Enter a trio of convicts that have hijacked a transport vessel and require an emergency landing to save their damaged spaceship. The timing could not be more appropriate since one of the convicts is a female. Her name is Maggie.
Max is immediately smitten by Maggie who is oblivious to the fact that she is a convict. She indulges his affections while the other two convicts attempt to repair their space ship and discover the illicit nature of the space station. Dr Daniel does scheming of his own, trying to get Maggie's energy to activate his female android and his motives drive him to do anything.
When the police follow a beacon straight to the space station, Max discovers the true identity of his guest. Driven by love, he protects Maggie by destroying the police space ship.
Maggie's own curiosity draws her to Dr. Daniel's objective and the energy created between her and Max bring Cassandra to life. Tensions between the convicts escalate and their murderous backgrounds cause them to kill each other.
With Dr. Daniel's objectives achieved and a mess on his hands, he alters Max's programming to eliminate the murdering last convict. But Dr. Daniel didn't see that his perverted nature turns both Max and Cassandra against him. They attempt to kill him only to find out that Dr. Daniel is also an android.
Reinforcements arrive to apprehend the convicts but discover that they are all now dead and Max and Cassandra assume the identities of Dr Daniel and his assistant to escape to Earth where they can hide.
Trivia
- Gameplay of Star Trek: The Motion Picture can be seen. Max plays it just before Dr. Daniel contacts him.
- Both Dr. Daniel and Gunther Keller are seen wearing the same style of watch. A close up is also given. Though the logos are not present this looks as though it is the GCE Sports Time LCD watch.
- The program seen both when the space ships Minos and Neptune attempt to dock is part of the Android Computer Graphics which was coded for the Vectrex by Mark Indictor.
- This was Don Keith Opper's first role. He played Max and was credits simply as "himself". He would go on to star in all four films in the Critters series.