BS-Dirk Benedict was 1,000 times better than Sackhoff. You had to really stretch
it to belive her as Starbuck.

Quite correct. If you look at the original series, all the Time Lord (i.e. male) Characters transform into Males (Borusa for one) and there are Time Ladies (I suppose that is the correct term?? Romana for one and the one in charge of the barrier on Gallifrey in "Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time".) But guess what if a woman does get the role, it'll be Political Correctness again. The same reason why we had Freon Argybargy in the companion role. A role she was remarkably unsuited for. It really needed a strong actor (of whatever race), whereas she went to the same acting school as many trees did :-) It was said that the director and producer thought she was suitable because of her handling of the role she played in the Torchwood Tower based end of series episode. Problem is she was playing basically a zombie, so she was really playing to her strengths.) So to the current director and Producer I'd say don;t listen to PC talk, just carry on with a male actor. If you need to produce a new female doctor wait until after the 12th/13th regeneration (when a Timelord tradionally dies according to canon.) then produce a new series with a female doctor.

The Corsair was a woman at one point. See The Doctor's Wife for the mention of it.

Sorry matey!! Sontarans are traditionally small. (Comes from coming from a Planet with a High Gravity.) In fact the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) put it best when he described one in the Time Monster as nasty, Brutish and Short (I'd have to see the DVD to get the exact quote.) The Sontarans have always been played by shortish actors except in the Two Doctors (Patrick Troughton, Colin Baker) where there was a distinct lack of going with the canon as one was a fairly tallish actor whilst the other one was short. Although I agree with your remarks about the Stupid Daleks, and the Cybermen (the most frightening Cyberment had to be the very first ones as they were supposed to be what happened when the Scientists and Medics decided to try to lengthen the lives of the Mondasians, and the first ones actually did look like what would happen if a doctor and scientist got let loose on a person.) As for Daleks in the new series the first ones were Copper coloured, which is still going against Canon as the Daleks were originally built as a military machine, and colours have no place in a Military structure other than to qualify either rank or branch. (They Dalek Supremes were Gold, Squad Leaders I believe were Black, and they had Commanders who were Red.) However now they are any colour thus ruining the use of Colour in Daleks. (Who's in command, Yellow, Blue, Red???)

Just know the bikini's on under the coat! lol