In a message dated 2/16/01 6:17:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, N.Faulkner@tesco.net writes:
<< Quite a few episodes featured male guests but no female ones. Prize winners here are Harvest of Kairos and Traitor, each having eight speaking male guest parts and no female ones at all. >>
Interesting research on B7's stats. I'd like one further refinement; a count of B7 episodes where a female character was the focal point of the plot.
I actually think the dearth of females on B7 overall comes from an earlier BBC production belief that Science Fiction shows are primarily of interest to young male viewers, and that the girls don't go for that sort of thing. So more male characters were present for the viewers to identify with. Nowadays, with the frantic pandering to the adolescent/teen-age male demographic, many producers can't put enough 'babes', butt-kicking or otherwise, in the forefront. This demographic has proven to have the least sales resistance, so advertisers are clamoring for more vehicles to hawk their products on directed toward this demographic. At least, that's what's going on in the US.
Leah