would it be discriminatory to not have fertile females on the ship? Perhaps have only older women among the women astronauts on a long trip?
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY: But who would be chosen?
VON KLUTZ: A special committee would have to be appointed to study and recommend the criteria to be employed, but off-hand, I should say that in addition to the factors of youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included, to impart the required principles of leadership and tradition.
Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time and little to do. With the proper breeding techniques, and starting with a ratio of, say, ten women to each man, I should estimate the progeny of the original group of 200,000 would emerge a hundred years later as well over a hundred million. Naturally the group would have to continually engage in enlarging the original living space.
GENERAL SCHMUCK: (judiciously) You mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Wouldn't that necessitate abandoning the so-called monogamous form of sexual relationship?
VON KLUTZ: Regrettably, yes. But it is a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to perform prodigious service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating order.
AMBASSADOR DE SADE: (enthusiastically) Von Klutz, I must confess you have an astonishingly good idea there.
VON KLUTZ: Thank you, sir.