In message 81.72ab701.27c53100@aol.com, Ashton7@aol.com writes
*Are* the Blakes 7 characters "British"? Well, personally, I don't think so. At least not all of them. If we follow that train of thought than the vast majority of spacegoers in the Star Trek Federation universe are *American*. The vast number of humanoids *and* aliens on Babylon 5 are mostly *American*.
err, but they *are* American...
I mean that quite seriously. Much as I love ST (when it's not Voyager), it does look to me remarkably like the good ol' US of A projected into the future. Possibly because it was quite deliberately written as that, so far as much of TOS is concerned. I can't really comment on B5, but what little I've seen struck me as much less overtly American in tone than does ST. And yes, B7 has a blatantly British feel. (This may be a good time to remind the list that my national identity is somewhat ambiguous...)