"Look, much as I'd love to fake tie the fake knot with a gorgeous, good-looking lady, I got a girlfriend in the pods that'll kill me if she finds out I married another girl on an alien planet--even if it's a fake marriage. Not only are you another guy when I'm not really all that into guys, but you're a guy that doesn't even have what it takes to do the mattress mambo. That's about as innocuous and innocent as it gets."

He has a proposition to make.

"Wanna get married? Gets us both in there, my girlfriend won't kill me over it when she wakes up someday, and you won't accidentally wind up with some weird, fleshy robophiliac all warm for your mechnical form, trying to cop a feel of your chassis."