Synopsis: Won't somebody think of the children?

Hi, my name is Tom Sandinez. I've lived all of my life on the spaceship 'Santa Maria', which left the solar system of Earth nearly five hundred years ago, and won't reach its final destination before I die. Life aboard ship is fairly good and very comfortable - there are just over a hundred of us living here, and I work as an electronic repair engineer and live in a cozy cabin with my girlfriend, Melanie, who's studying to be a therapist.

But what none of us really realized is that the next generation, our kids, are going to be the ones leading the ship's company when it reaches the Alpha Centauri system. Now Mel is the first woman on ship to be pregnant in twenty years, and there's only one thing that I'm sure of now.

If my daughter's going to grow up to be ready for the destiny that she has ahead of her, then things aboard ship need to change - starting NOW!