Everything but a black Lesbian in a wheelchair

I guess when a tv or film "formula" has been proved to be successful it is inevitable that it gets rehashed time and time and time AND TIME again.....
From the sixties and early seventies, when science fiction and disaster movies dovetailed neatly together, we have all enjoyed stories of motley groups of individuals facing disaster, peril and the unknown. Lost In Space and Land of the Giants, Made way for Space 1999 and Battlestar Galactica, then we loved the whole squeaky clean franchise of Star Trek and its lesser well known imitators, so I guess it was inevitable that in the modern, reality led 2009s, another square jawed, big boobed, squabbling group of humanity are thrust into worm holes for a bit of daring do!

I caught a bit of "SGU Stargate Universe" last night......where 80 odd Military staff, scientists and civilians, caught up in an alien attack on a bleak planet leapt to "safety" through a stargate (???) to end up marooned on an ancient spaceship a long way from home......hummm ring any bells??? I guess the whole thing was supposed to look rather dark, edgy and new.....but what I was really watching was a military version of Voyager.....and I must admit it was rather fun in a basic disaster film sort of way.
I so enjoyed picking over the characters, as the writers had worked sooooo hard not to leave ANY ONE minority group out..... so we had the maverick and obligatory English scientist/hero, an African American hero,and a Native American hunky soldier type, a couple of big boobed, but always assertive women, a fat geeky brightspark, and wait for this a Chinese American lesbian with attitude......
With Obama sorting out Gays in the military...I think it is only time before a mainstream all American series like this one will have a "Captain" with a boyfriend partner waiting for him at their duplex home on earth (...and probably wearing a nice round necked sweater).....but that perhaps will be in the next series.....

Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish.....I ENJOYED IT!