Of course it opens a whole can of worms with perfect cloning the side effect of any accidental restorations where the original was still in living condition.  Or what about someone who gets horribly disfigured during a mission, but not killed…would they allow him to revert to a previous backup, while killing the maimed original?  Would people make the same mistakes more often, react with less concern for their personal safety?

On the other hand, think of how much more could be accomplished by a doctor during a medical emergency, if he could beam himself down to a hundred locations at the same time.

Hmmm, could someone pirate another person by copying the transporter transmission?  How would unique identity work when you can re-create a person down to a quantum level perfectly, an infinite number of times?  Me’thinks the underwold of the Star Trek universe has crimes we can’t even imagine.

I love the CBC.  Compared to American TV, I think it’s far more witty, capable of poking fun at foibles on all sides of the political fence.  When I discovered they had a show about computer programmers who did drugs and had sex, I was almost sold.  When I found out one of their character’s drug-of-chocie was robotusin, I knew I had to watch it all.    Add in the fact that Alan Thicke plays a hard-drinkin, oblivious, wanna-be actor, opposite an amazing Sherry Miller, playing a pot-growing just-a-little-nonsense mother, and it all sorts of delicious comedy gravy.  I was more than a little annoyed when they ended the season with a cliff-hanger.

Wanting to know how it all works out, without having to wait, and hope that the tv show gets a 2nd season, since I had some extra audible credits, I bought the unabridged audiobook version, and started listening.  It was pretty obvious early on, that there were some significant differences between the book and the show.  One of the characters is completely missing from the TV version, and more importantly-to-me, alot of the characters turn out to be much more developed and involved, in the TV version.  And the book is FULL of fake-disses of Douglas Copland, whereas I don’t think he’s mentioned once on TV.  In general, I think the TV version is much better.  It seems odd to my American eyes/ears, how the book has more product placement than the TV show.  And I hate the book’s happy ending shtick.  I much prefer the extended consequences of the TV version, though now, I’m just as stuck for finding out how it all ends.

Dear CBC, you so better have approved a second season of j-pod.