Jacqui
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in a few of the other prisoners.
It would seem more reasonable to fit the limiter if they wanted to release
him back into the community.
I can think of a few reasons none of which are particuarly backed up by what
we see in the series...just speculation...
Maybe it was an experiement. Or maybe it didn't work properly.
Leia
Ol' Roj was a might fighting man
A rebel brave and true
Avon said if he got them killed
It was something he would rue
It was something he would rue
The conflict started getting tough
With troubles they were fraught
But sometimes when the fight died down
The Federation could be fought.
The Federation could be fought
The ship flew on through the course of these
Kind of twisted plots
Though fans know how it all turned out
They still debate them lots
They still debate them lots
With Vila Restal
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The implant guy (but not his wife)
The smuggler star
The psychic and
Mary S-Anne
Here on Liberator!
No props
No guns
No CGI
Not a single luxurey
Like Star Trek in the 60's
It's primitive as can be.
But join us here each week, my friend
See destruction in their wake
With seven cranky, fighting crew
Here, on Seven of Blake!
Ellynne
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Since AOL seems determined not to load any of my websites lately, I am in the
midst of moving a lot of my sites to an independent server. I've begun the
process by moving most of the Fanzine pages. Some of the graphics might not
come up the first time (or at all) right now since many of them are on AOL
and who knows what the heck is going on with AOL right now.
There is some news about new and upcoming fanzines on the pages. There will
be more definitive updates soon. …
[View More]Another new update you can see right now, if
you're a Blakes 7 fan: I've updated the Southern Comfort page to feature all
of the covers for every issue we've done over the years.
The new main page for our fanzines is:
http://www.ashtonpress.ma-at.net/zines.htm
The old pages are still there, for the moment (IF you can get AOL to load
them), but please change your bookmarks if you have any of our fanzine sites
bookmarked (you can see the new addresses for all of the subsites if you go
to the main one and follow the links).
I'll probably start moving some of the fan fiction sites next.
And, news regarding a HL alumni (from, I believe, the most "beloved" episode
<g> "The Zone"), check out the site and information that follows for news of
Michael Shanks (late of Stargate SG-1):
Forwarded on behalf of http://www.savedanieljackson.com. BTW, you can also
now see the latest full page ad placed in the Hollywood Reporter by Michael
Shanks fans. It is linked from the front page of the site (you can also see
the TV Zone ad linked from there.) The HR weekly edition goes on sale today.
The latest Michael Shanks interview from Cult Times #77 is up and linked
right from the homepage at Stargate Solutions. As always, extracts are
posted with permission from Visimag. There are also a number of other
interview extracts posted at the site, all with permission from the magazines.
Whew. This is a long one... I've also made some updates to the Fan Fiction
site since the last time I posted one of these notices. Some to the Holiday
Fan Fiction site and some to the main fan fiction site (all Highlander
stories on the main site and some Highlander on the holiday site):
http://members.aol.com/ashton7/holiday.htmhttp://members.aol.com/pelkiepet/stories.htm
Annie
"Maybe if you watched the episodes you didn't write, you'd know what was
happening." -- Robert C. Cooper (Executive Producer and writer) to Joe
Malozzi (Producer and writer) at Gatecon, Vancouver. September 2001.
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A book 'Travis' Amateur Organinist'
Any other accidental hobbies for B7 characters?
Jacqui
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Almost immediately after Orac's arrival on the Liberator the ship is taken over by the System.
(And as for the shortly-to-be-named Liberator being in the vicinity of a space battle and the London - Orac set everything up. Why else would Blake, Avon, Jenna and Vila have ended up on the same prison ship? Orac needs a pilot for the Liberator, a computer expert is useful, as is someone with Vila's practical experience - which would include manipulating computers, and Blake the rebel would, perhaps,…
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So Ensor left the System - not necessarily as a rebel - with the basics of Tarriel cell technology, and developed it within the Federation. Thus Orac is able to take over Zen, because their structures are compatible.
Any comments?
Jacqui
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not necessarily in control of it - the tinned thalamus-equivalent of =
Coser, if you like, stealing it's own invention.
>The question is is it possible to rid the remains of the Liberator of =
the particles?
In Terminal, the auto-repair was keeping the damage at bay, but the =
power running the auto repair was finite. Also, the auto-repair could =
not repair the damage fast enough to get ahead. Perhaps if you envisage =
a faster auto-repair system with greater power reserves, it could …
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been done.
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BLAKE: Oh, they did a memory erase on me, set up a show trial, had me
confess, made me explain that I had been misled, that my political ideas
were mistaken. Enough people believed me. The whole resistance movement
collapsed. After that the Federation kept me around as a, a reformed
character, a sort of ideal model citizen exhibit. Of course, I didn't know
that at the time. No, it's only since almost exactly the same thing has
happened again that the memory erase has begun to fade and I can …
[View More]remember.
So, if it *was* the repeat of the massacre that broke down the
memory-blocks, then it's possible that keeping Blake around as a 'reformed'
rebel wouldn't, in practise, work. The conflict between the artificially
implanted belief that his ideals were misguided, and the evidence all
around him that they *weren't*, might have undone the conditioning. If
that were true, it would be safer to take away all memories of being a
rebel, therefor reducing the conflict.
>In the latter case, they *could* serve as hostages
>for his continued good behavior, but in the former,
>he would be an awe-inspiring example of the high
>cost of rebellion and therefore an effective deterrent.
In TWB, the Federation seems to be a lot more subtle in its oppression than
it becomes later, or perhaps that's merely an illusion caused by TWB being
set on Earth. Memory erase is officially banned (according to Veron),
suppressants are a secret, serious criminals are deported rather than
executed. A fiction that relatives or associates of resisters are allowed
to leave or are deported from Earth rather than killed would fit in with that.
To the wider population of the domes, Blake was seen to recant his crimes,
and is now living quietly in the Dome. They will never get a chance to
meet him in person, so they don't know he now has no memories of his
rebellion. Should the Federation need him again, he can always be
re-mind-fucked.
To his closer associates, the people who knew him before and any resisters
who weren't captured when Blake was, he's an object lesson of a different
kind--try and resist the Federation, and this is what will happen to you.
The idea of having your memories and personality so profoundly tampered
with would be fairly frightening.
>-(Y)
love
Anna
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in an alternate universe. Earth evolved the same, but the galaxy as we
know it seems to be radically different (ie, smaller).
Skipping Travis' comment about how many galaxies he'd chased Blake
through (either he knew the ship was bugged and was posing for a good
sound bite, or 'galaxy' has an alternate meaning [either a political
division (like states and counties) or else it's the name of a fast food
restuarant chain]), the area seems pretty small.
1) Every solar system people enter by …
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planet. Even if they only try to enter systems with a sun similiar to
ours, that suggests a high number of habitable worlds within a short
distance of Earth.
2) Since the dissident group in The Way Back felt the defection of one
world would have impact and that it was a practical goal (even the most
starry eyed idealists might have thought twice if it was one world vs
thousands) but it was still possible to run into a new one each week, it
seems safe to suppose the Federation had a few hundred planets. Sounds
like a lot but, as this galaxy's supposed to have 100 billion stars in
it, that means they could all be pretty close to home.
3) Take a look at Federation astrogation. In Deliverance, the small ship
cuts through a solar system it has no reason to visit. There are a few
other hints and references that ships move from one system to another
even when that system isn't any part of their destination (the frequency
with which they run into other ships while orbiting planets they didn't
intend to land on until the fighting started, for example). This implies
their astrogation is still pretty crude. They avoid plotting straight
lines over great distances and instead seem to move to the nearest
navigable point then on to the next. Add to this Cally's comments in
Star One when they leave the galaxy, even if it's only a short distance.
Whether or not Liberator or some Federation ships would be capable of
navigating there, no one seems comfortable with the idea.
Ellynne
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