With all due (and sincere) respect, what the hell would satisfy you? I’d like to think any minority actor with a micron of self-respect would tell any “hack producer” wanting to get some ethnic colour on board to shove it up their probic vent. (Sorry for the random and pretty obscure Dr. Who geekery, folks.)

I certainly hope ‘Heroes’ is going to have a pretty dramatic return to form, but the casting of Michael Dorn as POTUS — can’t get much more of a leader than that! — will have anything to do with it if he doesn’t have much better scripts to work with. ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ has a highly ethnically and gender diverse cast. Shame it’s also a steaming pile of crap.

And ‘Battlestar Galactica’ is a perfect case study in how absurd racial quota casting can get. In some quarters, Ron Moore was outed as little better than a Klansman with a casting couch for not following the original and casting a black actor as Tigh. Becuase, of course, it wouldn’t be in the slightest part problematic to cast a black man as a barely functional alcoholic, with a comulsively unfaithful wife, who gets into a drunken fist-fight over a card game with a woman about ten minutes into the pilot.

What is with Stargate and it’s racial typecasting? All of the brown/black people are always in non-leadership roles. Never the scientists or the doctors.

What Worf has brought to sci-fi, no hack producer has the courage to counter!

Either way, you’ve been missing out.

(Oh, congratulations on the gig too. Is there something wrong with my priorities that I’m more concerned about your eating habits than a new Stargate series?)

That’d be another giveaway. Also, belatedly coining OriAA.

I hope to never see another scene where a scientist peers at some cells in an optical microscope and exclaims, “The DNA is mutating!”