Okay, this is kind of political… okay, really political, but whatever, I’ll risk it.

The Indian nation is now doing (always was but I just read the news story I’m talking about today) what China has been doing for a while (which I read about at the time a couple years ago). They are aborting female offspring in order to avoid the liability involved, and hopefully get the ’superior male specimen’ they so desperately want. This story relates how something like 10 million girls who should have been born… somehow aren’t in existence.

Is there anything more futile? I guess the pollution of our own environment is analogous, but at least you can imagine outcomes that are a little less dire, or maybe we’ll invent some new anti-pollution spray, or something. But slowly killing out a gender has to sound some alarm bells somewhere. I mean, if you’re going to kill a gender, absolutely determined to do it, then it’s got to be the male one, because at least the females have everything else needed to reproduce, science will likely (if not already) create synthetic germ cells that can be used. But killing off the women? What?

Okay, I can understand… in China, you need sons to work and support you in your old age… in India, girls cause dowries and that is expensive so it’s best not to be in that sitation at all. Yes, very good… so how can we solve these problems? By social change to make women as effective wage-earners as men? By making marriage a partnership instead of a weird-reverse-sale? Nope, let’s kill girls. (okay, I know I’m being simplistic, but that is one of my charming characteristics, or at least I’m so simplistic I’m willing to beleive it is charming)

Anyway, I just wish that we were isolated again, maybe as far along as sailing cargo ships perhaps, so the nations can’t interfere biologically on a grand scale. Then Darwin can come in, watch as these nations eventually reach their 100% male populations, watch them celebrate that they have finally reached their highest religion, ethical, financial, non-temptational potentials and have rid themselves of all the other things they attribute-to-women-just-because-they-can, and later, probably laughing quietly to himself, watch them die out in a generation.

Okay, I’ll stop ranting… but jeeze

Simply introduce to american producers.

Specifically the story of Red Dwarf USA… it was terrible what they did to it, and at least it failed before it was completely launched without going out on the air and besmirtching the british show’s name. I haven’t seen the pilot, only bits of it included in the Series V DVD of Red Dwarf, but the casting and the bits I saw were quite, quite awful.

But it’s funny to think of the reprocussions if the series had taken off:

There would have been no more Red Dwarf (Original) because Robert Llewellyn was reprising his role of Kryten in the US version and would have likely been unable to continue the British one.

The role of the pretty psychic home-assistant in Frasier would have gone to someone else, as Jane Leeves would have been busy playing Holly

Dax on Star Trek: DS9 might have been played by Nicole DeBoer the whole time (no, probably not) as Terry Farrell would have been playing the second incarnation of Cat (which, to me, seems the most insane of all)

Not sure why I found this interesting, probably because I was at least mildly interested in Frasier and DS9, and loved the “Real” Red Dwarf, so it’s fascinating to see how close it all came to being different.