DORAN: I don't want aggravated. 'Cause when Doran gets aggravated, he kills people.

And what did they put him away for fifteen years for, if they thought he was a pussycat? Again, they're fascists not idiots. Remember too that the criminals are being deliberately recruited from a prison planet as an army. Somebody evidently realised what a beast he was...

Or 2 other possibilities: during the big war, they lost a lot of surgeons and don't have anyone to spare to do the implants;

Doran started his sentence 15 years ago. The war was only a couple of years past at most by the time of "Moloch." So the state of the medical profession after the war is not the reason.

alternately,

he would have gotten the implant if he hadn't been diverted from surgery by the rogue group who were trying to build their own army.

Again:

DORAN: But when they dragged me into that prison cell, they said, "Look at the sun." "Look at the sun," they said. [Vila and Doran look up.] "'Cause as long as you live, you'll never see the sun again." And I haven't. In fifteen years, I've never seen the sun. Or a woman.

Before he was "recruited," he had been on the prison planet for fifteen years. Plenty of time to give him an implant if you like.

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I haven't got this episode on video and I haven't see it in years, so please excuse me if I'm getting this wrong, but I don't remember Doran being intimidated by women with rank and status, he even tries to encourage Vila to rape Servalan.

I need to clarify again... with current rank and status, which, we have seen in the past, means the woman usually has an armed escort. I meant he has physical cowardice and wouldn't risk being killed attacking, when there are so many unprotected women amid the lower ranks.

What evidence do we have for this? What women with armed escorts do we see on the planet (when Servalan turns up with an armed guard he's nowhere near her)? Where does he seem to be intimidated by people with guns (he doesn't hang back from attacking with Tarrant and Vila)?

Jenny

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