I was just brushing my teeth, and my mind was springing from thought to thought as I did so. They jumped from Battlestar Galactica and Gaius Baltar’s Cylon problem to lechery, from lechery to Marilyn Manson, back to lechery and Battlestar Galactica, via some other, less well defined areas of though.

And suddenly it struck me: The television show Battlestar Galactica is a more serious adaption of a plot element Douglas Adams had in either “Life, The Universe And Everything” or “So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish”. Arthur Dent is stranded or something on a planet inhabited by humans, and he soon learns that they were descendants of first evacuees from a planet threatened by an event of apocalyptic dimensions: A demon goat plague, or something along those lines. These first-wave evacuees all had occupations one could refer to as “useless” — they e.g. cleaned telephones, and took care of a lot of seemingly unimportant tasks. Obviously, the more “productive” members of their original world had thought to rid themselves of what they must have perceived as a bunch of free loaders, a plan that ended in their own whole and utter annihilation, as a demon goat plague erupted as a result of unclean telephones.

Quite an “Eureka!” moment, eh? ;)

(Naturally, I expect my readers to be so clever as to be able to draw their own conclusions in relation to the parallels I just mentioned having seen in this little epiphany of mine.)