----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Date stephend999@yahoo.co.uk To: b7 blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Re [B7L] Deliverance - keg marxist take
--- Neil Faulkner N.Faulkner@tesco.net wrote: >
With the Federation effectively absent from this episode (except in the Servalan-Travis scenes, remote from all the action on Cephlon), our heroes effectively become the Establishment for the purposes of this episode.
Nice Try ! Unfortunately the action of this story occurs because of Servalan's desire to get Orac and her actions in placing a bomb on Ensor Jnr's ship. This leads the crew to go down to Cephlon to rescue any survivors. The entire episode is a result of Federation machinations.
That's fudging the point. For one thing, it wasn't through Servalan's machinations that they wound up there, it was through a mistake on Servalan's part. Anyway, Servalan and Travis weren't there; Avon and company *were.*
They are not renegades in Deliverance, but explorers. And they go down to the planet with the conventional attitudes of their society largely intact.
These being the conventional attitudes that got them sent to Cygnus Alpha presumably ?
Whether you're a criminal or a saint, you're part of society.
Fiona
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