After I wrote: <How about the fun we'd have if we substituted Piri for someone (Cally?)>

Frances asked: <What fun was that then?>

Well, for a start, we'd get the full - errrmmmmm - glory of her simpering and fluttering and whining 'poor-little-me' act, not only with Avon but with Fearless Leader (though now I think about it, it might even *work* with Gan!!! Oh joy ...). Jenna's enjoyment at having the only other woman on the ship a brainless, fingernails-on-blackboard-voiced twit would be wonderful too.

Vila would of course want to run bets on [a] whether she was turfed out an airlock by Avon *or* Blake (or - in a rare display of total unity - both) and how long it would take before they did. But one would of course give the little dear some irreplacable skill (please DON'T ask me what) so that they had to put up with her for as long as possible ...

(She could, of course, then turn into the almost as annoying gloat-until-the-Cavalry-get-here Cancer, I guess ...)

Please note however, that this is only the opinion of one firm devotee of driving Our Heroes to distraction ...

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