Theme
Fair Haven explores a common Star Trek (and science fiction) theme of what constitutes personhood. For example, Voyager explores this using the self-aware holographic program The Doctor; The Next Generation did so using the android Data, and the Trill symbionts, who also appear in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; The Original Series included an intelligent cloud-like life form in the episode "Metamorphosis." Specifically, Fair Haven addresses the ethics of how to treat artificially created programs which are nonetheless self-aware.
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