Season Of Lust

Code awoke from his sleep-cycle with a start. His cat had jumped on his chest, purring contentedly. Gently, he picked up Roger and set her down on the bed. It was not a good time to be awoken. He got out of bed and looked at himself in the mirror. He took a brush and combed back the few misplaced hairs on his head. Ever since Amber has installed the emotion chip Dr. Ricky has created for him, he was fascinated at discovering the many emotions that he had noted in humans before, but could not understand, such as the vanity of looking one's best even when no one else is around. He noticed something in the mirror and looked down at himself.

 He was surprised to see he had an erection. Dr. Ricky had made him, as he once told Elaine Zak while they were both under the influence of the SAS 3030 virus, fully functional, down to an operational set of sexual organs. He even suspected that, since he knew all the physical characteristics of Dr. Ricky, that he had given his creation a sizable set to make up for his own shortcomings. But unlike humans, he had to concentrate to have an erection. It wasn't a reflexive function. He ran an internal scan of his nervous system. No anomalies. Then he noticed that the swelling had gone away.

 He remembered male crewmembers of the Enterprise sometimes joking that they had to think about sports to keep from becoming sexually aroused by female crewmembers. He now supposed that his preoccupation about his erection had actually distracted him enough to make him lose it. Still, he was curious, and decided that he would have to determine whether there was some defect in his sex organs or whether this was part of the emotion chip