The star ship Athena launched on a perfect day; the first all female crew of astronauts on their way to distant stars w/ cartoonish technology; self-replicating parts & holoplastic surgery; Capt. B noticing the stars in faux gravity; her comfortable pilot's seat offering a pedicure & massage; Athena's mission: to find other advanced female life-forms like themselves; each a Nobel winning intergalactic biogynocist pioneer; Capt. B studies her star charts, consults her womb counsel; they say go for it; 'we know at the center of the known universe an all female world exists w/o violence or patriarchy; mothers all parthenogenic verily the ancestors of all women everywhere; every female thing essence of pre-seed life; the Athena moving thru space in multitudes of light years, its sole mission to find what it already contains in abundance; an army of women ready to march on foreign soil & declare it native; all in the hope of finding lost tribes of their sisters where according to imploding time contained within the sisterhood itself as **** production so that when the Athena comes to ground on the long sought terrain the crew will be there to greet itself; a mother race whose reproduction depends on perception