When mankind is given five years in which to prepare a volunteer for the rigors of space travel and the intricacies of alien diplomacy, scientist Dr. Richard Wymond devises the ZETTA serum, a nano-biological cocktail that will augment its recipient with nearly superhuman abilities, but when Wymond's daughter, 17-year-old Evie is mortally injured in a freak accident, he makes a fateful decision, and rather than let her die, injects Evie with the ZETTA serum. Original.