"Yes, the droids rights activists." That answer was an easy one, but Kay, being who he was, added: "They really aren't helping as much as they think they are, if anything they're making things worse."

It wasn't that Kay thought some droids were better than others, it was simply that he knew that some were designed with a single task and purpose -gonks for instance couldn't ever stand in for a protocol droid- whereas the droids rights activists thought they should all be treated equally, as fully-functioning beings.