--- Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net wrote:
Harriere, re Hostage:
Or may just indicate that Travis is wrong about
knowing Blake better than
himself. A lot of things might have lured Blake;
Travis picks one which,
perhaps, might have lured him.
I would really hate to use those visits to Exbar as evidence of Blake's heterosexuality--Inga appears to be at least a decade younger. If Blake made three annual visits, when he was fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, then....euuwww. Squick. (Unless that's where the Federation got the idea for the accusations.)
I don't like to blame Allan Prior - after all he didn't do the casting, but the whole "she's way too young for you" motif does reappear in Animals with Dayna and Justin.
As for why Travis chose Inga - well she was more or less outside the Federation and could be captured with impunity without any conflict with local law enforcement. I suppose, having three Crimmos among his crew one of them might have done time on Exbar.
"Blake ? Roj Blake ? Well bleedin' eck I used to know his cousin once. Her old man broke me arm over a slight misunderstanding".
However Travis found out Inga was, to quote the alien in Sarcophagus, "wonderfully vulnerable" from his point of view.
Stephen.
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