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blakes7-d Digest				Volume 99 : Issue 10

Today's Topics:
	 Re: blakes7-d Digest V98 #302
	 Re: blakes7-d Digest V98 #310

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:19:03 GMT
From: "Dita Stanistraken" <d.stanistraken@dundee.ac.uk>
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> Date:          Tue, 8 Dec 1998 00:05:37 +0100 (MET)
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> blakes7-d Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 302
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 	 Re: [B7L] Gotcha all.
> 	 [B7L] Carnell - thanks again
> 	 [B7L] A New Character
> 	 Re: [B7L] A New Character
> 	 [B7L] Gareth photos
> 	 [B7L] Redemption and plays
> 	 [B7L] Horizon Newsflash 7/12/98
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: 06 Dec 1998 20:08:13 +0100
> From: Calle Dybedahl <calle@lysator.liu.se>
> To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
> Subject: Re: [B7L] Gotcha all.
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> Spam and chain-letter-type things are not welcome on this list. Please
> don't do that again.
> 
> /Listadmin
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>  Calle Dybedahl, Vasav. 82, S-177 52 Jaerfaella,SWEDEN | calle@lysator.liu.se
> 		 Hello? Brain? What do we want for breakfast?
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 14:10:14 PST
> From: "Joanne MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com>
> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: [B7L] Carnell - thanks again
> Message-ID: <19981206221014.22088.qmail@hotmail.com>
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> Hello all.
> 
> Lisa, thank you for more pictures, but I still cannot see what it is 
> that some (female) members of the list have been drooling over <smile>. 
> Maybe you're right - one does need to see an animated version of the 
> pictures in order to have any idea.
> 
> As for Dangermouse, don't worry about sending snow in the direction of 
> the Antipodean list members - it'll melt before it gets to us <grin>. 
> Either that, or some of us can hit you with our recently acquired copies 
> of "Mission: Impractical". Vandor Prime indeed! <grin>
> 
> Regards
> Joanne
> 
> Once a moderately jolly wizard camped by a dried-up waterhole under the 
> shade of a tree that he was completely unable to identify. And he swore 
> as he hacked and hacked at a can of beer, saying, 'What kind of *idiots* 
> put beer in *tins*?'
> Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent.
> 
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> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 17:29:47 EST
> From: LordRab@aol.com
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> Subject: [B7L] A New Character
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> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm afraid the new character is me and this is my first posting to the group.
> I have read and watched the progress for a few weeks now, concurrent with my
> re-viewing of the Blake's 7 series from beginning to end with great interest.
> 
> My fascination with Sci Fi goes back to childhood and I have digested the
> good with the bad over the years but never has a series grabbed me in such a
> way
> as Blake's 7 has. Nevermind the cheesy monsters or the low budget special
> effects, or even the occasional lame episode that goes nowhere. At it's heart
> was a character
> driven story that arced from episode to episode (not unlike a <shiver> soap
> opera) in which charcters reactions to plot developments did not always move
> in predictable ways. This goes against the grain of most genre type fiction
> where we are given clearly defined "heroes and heroines". Boiled down, most
> sci fi on TV has always been cops and robbers or cowboys and indians in outer
> space.
> 
> Ok, Star Trek will give us the occasional moral dilemma, but they somehow
> manage to wrap things up all neat and tidy by episodes end and the good guys
> win (and we feel soooo good about it) and we have another valuable vanilla
> morality play. Oh yes, and everyone recovers nicely from their wounds. 
> 
> A recent example:
> 
> On Voyager, the HoloDoctor is assisted by a Cardasian (aka Nazi's in outer
> space) Surgeon hologram whose barbaric medical experiments provided the data
> necessary to save the life of a crew member. Of course the politically
> correct crew are outraged and the data is destroyed in the end after being
> used
> succesfully because it's the right thing to do.
> 
> All I could think of was a line from my favorite Blake's 7 character
> (surprise!!!! It's Kerr Avon) : 
> 
> "I rarely comment on the Ethics of others" 
> 
> Cheers,
> Rab
> 
> "Give me ambiguity or give me something else" 
> 
> 
> 
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> Hello All,
> 
> I'm afraid the new character is me and this is my first posting to the group.
> I have read and watched the progress for a few weeks now, concurrent with my
> re-viewing of the Blake's 7 series from beginning to end with great interest.
> 
> My fascination with Sci Fi goes back to childhood and I have digested the good
> with the bad over the years but never has a series grabbed me in such a way as
> Blake's 7 has.
> Nevermind the cheesy monsters or the low budget special effects, or even the
> occasional lame episode that goes nowhere. At it's heart was a character
> driven story that arced from episode to episode (not unlike a <shiver> soap
> opera) in which charcters reactions to plot developments did not always move
> in predictable ways. This goes against the grain of most genre type fiction
> where we are given clearly defined "heroes and heroines". Boiled down, most
> sci fi on TV has always been cops and robbers or cowboys and indians in outer
> space.
> 
> Ok, Star Trek will give us the occasional moral dilemma, but they somehow
> manage to wrap things up all neat and tidy by episodes end and the good guys
> win (and we feel soooo good about it) and we have another valuable vanilla
> morality play. Oh yes, and everyone recovers nicely from their wounds. A
> recent example:
> 
> On Voyager, the HoloDoctor is assisted by a Cardasian (aka Nazi's in outer
> space) Surgeon hologram whose barbaric medical experiments provided the data
> necessary to save the life of a crew member. Of course the politically correct
> crew are outraged and the data is destroyed in the end after being used
> succesfully because it's the right thing to do.
> 
> All I could think of was a line from my favorite Blake's 7 character
> (surprise!!!! It's Kerr Avon): 
> 
> "I rarely comment on the Ethics of others" 
> 
> Cheers,
> Rab
> 
> 
> "Give me ambiguity or give me something else" 
> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 02:35:11 PST
> From: "Penny Dreadful" <pdreadful@hotmail.com>
> To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: Re: [B7L] A New Character
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> Rab said
> >Ok, Star Trek will give us the occasional moral dilemma, but they 
> somehow
> >manage to wrap things up all neat and tidy by episodes end and the good 
> guys
> >win... 
> >
> Star Trek has an unfair advantage over B7 in this arena, inasmuch as it 
> has "good guys". B7 has, at best, "not-as-bad-as-some guys".
> 
> 
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> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:11:56 +0100 (BST)
> From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
> To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
> Subject: [B7L] Gareth photos
> Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-1207111156-d07Rr9i@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
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> 
> Dangermouse very helpfully helped me trace some photos of Gareth in Pygma=
> lion,
> Cat on a hot Tin Roof, Jekyll and Hyde and Rebecca that are now in the Sc=
> ottish
> Theatre Archive.  The best ones appear to be the Pygmalion ones (he was p=
> laying
> Colonel Pickering)
> 
> I'm just about to send in an order for photos for myself and several frie=
> nds.=20
> Does anyone else want any while I'm at it?  Price is =A34 for a 7x5 photo=
> , =A36 for
> a 8x10, and =A310 for 20x16, plus postage.  They're all black and white.
> 
> If you're interested, mail me and I'll send you a list of the photos.  Th=
> ey'd
> prefer me to send in one large order rather than everyone sending in sepa=
> rate
> orders as it makes their life simpler.  (Besides, I can sort out the
> overseas money more easily that way)
> 
> I can't predict postage costs in advance, but I'll do it as reasonably as=
>  I can.
> 
> I can't guarantee that you'll get your photos before Xmas as it depends o=
> n how
> busy the people at the archive are, so it's probably more likely that you=
> 'll get
> them in the New year.
> 
> Judith
> --=20
> http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7
> 
> Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention =20
> 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent
> http://www.smof.com/redemption/
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:07:38 +0100 (BST)
> From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
> To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
> cc: Space City <Space-city@world.std.com>
> Subject: [B7L] Redemption and plays
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> Redemption is 26-28 Feb in Ashford in Kent.  Paul Darrow is appearing in Swansea
> in Guards Guards two days later, on Tuesday 2nd March and Gareth Thomas is in
> 'The Hosts of Rebecca' the same week in Cardiff starting on the same day. 
> Students of geography will realise that Swansea and Cardiff are both in South
> Wales and only about 30 miles apart.
> 
> 
> Would there be interest if we organised a mini-bus/coach on the Monday from
> Ashford to South Wales?  
> 
> If there's enough interest, we might be able to work out some kind of package
> involving transport, accomodation in Wales for Tuesday and Wednesday night,
> theatre tickets etc, but I'm only prepared to do that if there's sufficient
> interest.
> 
> Another thing that might be possible (and it is only might, because I've only
> just thought of it - well actually a lady from Theatre Clwyd suggested it to me
> about an hour ago) would be to try and arrange a get-together on the Monday
> night with Paul and/or Gareth.
> 
> Basically, the more people who are interested, the more effort I'm prepared to
> expend in trying to put together something worthwhile.
> 
> Judith
> 
> -- 
> http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7
> 
> Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention  
> 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent
> http://www.smof.com/redemption/
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 23:03:09 +0000
> From: JMR <jager@clara.net>
> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: [B7L] Horizon Newsflash 7/12/98
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> HORIZON NEWSFLASH 7 December 98
> 
> GARETH THOMAS
> Gareth will play Tomos Treherne (the Narrator/Minister) in THE HOSTS OF
> REBECCA an adaptation of a classical Welsh novel by Alexander Cordell.  It
> will play 04/27 February - Theatre Clwyd, Mold (Box Office 01352 755114)
> and 01/06 March - New Theatre, Cardiff CF1 3LN (Box Office 01222 878889).
> You can also watch out for him next year in a TV ad for Warburton's Bread,
> in which he plays the father of an ice skater.
> 
> The Horizon Club website:
> <http://www.horizon.org.uk>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> J.M. Rolls
> jager@clara.net
> ----------------
> Steedophilia: The John Steed Website
> <http://home.clara.net/jager/>
> 
> --------------------------------
> End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #302
> **************************************
> 
Dita, President and Supreme Commander of the Terran Federation.

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:20:08 GMT
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> Date:          Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:23:23 +0100 (MET)
> From:          blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se
> Subject:       blakes7-d Digest V98 #310
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> blakes7-d Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 310
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 	 Re: [B7L] Breakfast with Blake and Co.
> 	 Re: [B7L] Avon the genius?
> 	 Re: [B7L] Breakfast with Blake and Co.
> 	 Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
> 	 Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
> 	 [B7L] ?
> 	 Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
> 	 [B7L] Gilbert and Servalan
> 	 [B7L] Travis has three faces
> 	 [B7L] Re: High Council
> 	 Re: [B7L] Breakfast with Blake and Co.
> 	 [B7L] Re: High Council Restoration
> 	 Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
> 	 [B7L] Avon the genius?
> 	 [B7L] OT : Pat F and other Sydney ladies
> 	 RE: [B7L] Travis has three faces
> 	 Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
> 	 [B7L] B7L-Breakfast with Blake and Co
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 03:31:30 PST
> From: "Rob Clother" <whitehorse_dream@hotmail.com>
> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: Re: [B7L] Breakfast with Blake and Co.
> Message-ID: <19981216113130.9074.qmail@hotmail.com>
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> Kathryn:
> 
> >* Avon's probably a coffee person.
> 
> The fourth series Avon is probably more of a pork pie person.  
> 
> -- Rob
> 
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> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 06:51:31 EST
> From: AChevron@aol.com
> To: Tigerm1019@aol.com
> Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: Re: [B7L] Avon the genius?
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> In a message dated 12/15/98 2:14:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> Tigerm1019@aol.com writes:
> 
> << This list would be
>  boring if everyone agreed on everything. :-) >>
> 
> 
>    Alas, I've failed in defending my icon! as you say however, it wouldn't be
> much fun if we all agreed. Especially on those rare instances when one side or
> another concedes to the opposition's viewpoint, as should happen on some
> issues. This topic, I agree, is not one of those that has a "right" answer to
> it. On to the next topic!!!:-)       D. Rose
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:11:08 -0600 (CST)
> From: Susan.Moore@uni.edu
> To: BLAKES7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: Re: [B7L] Breakfast with Blake and Co.
> Message-id: <01J5EETOYKC88WZMX0@uni.edu>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> 
> In the ongoing discussion of what people would eat for breakfast:
> 
> Servalan:  Caviar (or something else expensive and not too fattening) or
> incompetent underlings
> 
> Travis:  Nails
> 
> Avon: definitely a "coffee only" person
> 
> Jenna: I agree with Judith, grapefruit
> 
> Gan:  Eggs, toast, broiled tomatoes, etc.
> 
> Cally:  Apparently nothing
> 
> Vila:  Beer and twinkies
> 
> Vargas:  The scenery
> 
> All I can think of for now.
> 
> Susan M.
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:33:14 +0100 (BST)
> From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
> To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
> Subject: Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
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> 
> On Wed 16 Dec, Penny Dreadful wrote:
> 
> > >Why is Travis so interested in Keera?
> > 
> > I always saw that as a seriously inept come-on. A hostile, half-hearted 
> > pick-up line. It's in keeping with my diagnosis of Travis' personality 
> > disorder (I'm not a psychologist, but I *do* have a second-hand copy of 
> > the "DSM-III-R Training Guide"). And I think after being "rejected" by 
> > the poor thing his pointless refusal to let her drink Jenna's blood is 
> > subconscious revenge.
> 
> With a mutoid, a pick-up line would be irrelevent.  They are conditioned to obey
> orders.  If he'd wanted sex, he would just have had to command it.  Thus, I
> think it was company he desired.
> 
> Travis, like Blake, was dome bred (actually that's an assumption on my part - he
> might have been from a frontier world).  How does the dome dweller cope with an
> outside environment?  Travis had been a soldier and had obviously spent a lot of
> time out of doors, but night alone on a strange planet must always carry some
> fears.
> 
> I agree with you that his refusal to let the mutoid drink Jenna's blood could
> well have had a subconscious revenge element.
> 
> 
> Why did Travis prefer mutoids?  Was it simply because they were well trained and
> never questioned orders or was there more to it than that?  I think he once
> claimed that he felt part mutoid himself because of his cybernetic arm, but I
> think there was a bit more to it than that.
> 
> Was it more that he felt rejected by normal people and thus turned to mutoids
> because they weren't repelled by him?
> 
> And that brings us onto the question of why he refused plastic surgery for his
> eye.  What do you think his motives were there?  I think it was a bit more
> complex than the reason he gave Servalan.
> 
> Judith
> 
> -- 
> http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7
> 
> Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention  
> 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent
> http://www.smof.com/redemption/
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:35:11 EST
> From: Tigerm1019@aol.com
> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
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> In a message dated 98-12-16 13:28:09 EST, Judith wrote:
> 
> << Why did Travis prefer mutoids?  Was it simply because they were well
> trained and
>  never questioned orders or was there more to it than that?  I think he once
>  claimed that he felt part mutoid himself because of his cybernetic arm, but I
>  think there was a bit more to it than that.
>  
>  Was it more that he felt rejected by normal people and thus turned to mutoids
>  because they weren't repelled by him?
>   >>
> 
> Perhaps it was because he didn't consider them to be people the way he would a
> human crew and he could thus be more ruthless with their lives.  Or perhaps he
> didn't have to worry about a mutoid crew mutiny the way he might have with a
> human crew.  Rai did say in "Seek-Locate-Destroy" that many officers would
> refuse to serve with Travis.
> 
> Tiger M
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:07:45 PST
> From: "Rob Clother" <whitehorse_dream@hotmail.com>
> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: [B7L] ?
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> Anyone got any theories on why the High Council was alive and kicking in 
> "Rumours of Death", and yet it had to be "restored to power" later on, 
> as reported in "Traitor"?
> 
> Perhaps Servalan dissolved it after the coup, in retaliation for Sula's 
> betrayal.
> 
> -- Rob
> 
> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:55:59 PST
> From: "Penny Dreadful" <pdreadful@hotmail.com>
> To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se
> Subject: Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
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> Judith said:
> 
> >With a mutoid, a pick-up line would be irrelevent.  They are 
> conditioned to obey
> >orders.  If he'd wanted sex, he would just have had to command it.  
> 
> I think it's more complicated than just "wanting sex". It's, um, wanting 
> to get someone to want to have sex with one. Hmm. Otherwise the world of 
> procreation would be much more straightforward than it is.
> 
> >Why did Travis prefer mutoids?
> >Was it more that he felt rejected by normal people and thus turned to 
> mutoids
> >because they weren't repelled by him?
> 
> I think he felt isolated from, and (psychologically) threatened by, 
> normal people even when he was physically "normal". I think he felt more 
> empathy for the mental processes of mutoids than he did for those of 
> normal people.
> 
> >And that brings us onto the question of why he refused plastic surgery 
> for his
> >eye.  What do you think his motives were there?
> 
> I think he perceived himself as a machine even before he got shot up, 
> and was glad of a chance to overtly display this inhumanity.
> 
> - Penny "I Feel Your Pain" Dreadful
> 
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> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:23:31 +0100 (BST)
> From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
> To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
> cc: Space City <Space-city@world.std.com>
> Subject: [B7L] Gilbert and Servalan
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> I'm delighted to announce that Chris Blenkarn's opus, the Gilbert and Servalan
> Song Book is now available.  This is a genzine and does not contain adult
> material.
> 
> Space City members in particular will have seen many of Chris's hilarious
> Gilbert and Sullivan parodies this last year.  Who could forget Servalan's
> version of 'For I'm called Little Buttercup' or Travis's 'I am a Renegade' to a
> tune that formerly belonged to the pirate king in Pirates of Penzance.
> 
> Or Vila's Nightmare Song -
> 
>  When you still have the shakes from that last scheme of Blake's and you can't
> get to sleep for anxiety,
>  You've consumed a relaxant, the effect's not apparant, you're still in a state
> of sobreity,
>  Your nerves are all shot, the bedclothes they plot of your usual sweet dreams
> to deprive you,
>  Your bedspread hits the floor, scatt'ring bottles galore and the sheet follows
> shortly from under you,
> 
> - and gets wilder and wilder
> 
>  Avon jumps on a horse, drinking neat Worcester Sauce, followed up with a large
> whisky sour,
>  Then you turn to find Blake, who is munching fruit cake and a plateful of cold
> cauliflower,
>  He asks you to dine, but you have to decline for you're falling into a large
> cavern,
>  Feeling somewhat unstable you grab a chess table in what seems a late maniac
> tavern,
>  etc.
>  
> If you know Gilbert and Sulliva's Savoy operas then you'll be rolling on the
> floor.  If you don't know the original songs, then you'll still find these
> parodies funny, but you may find a sudden dertermination to go out and buy a CD
> of 'The Pirates of Penzance' or 'The Gondoliers'.  The originals had great tunes
> as well as having some of the most delightfully improbable plots of all time. 
> Speaking of improbable plots, this volume also contains the storyline for 'The
> Pirates of Gauda Prime' a tale of amazing deeds that introduces the Scorpio crew
> plus Blake, Cally, Servalan and Carnell in a PGP that shamelessly rips off the
> plot of The Gondoliers and coms out with something even more improbable.
> 
> This book is A4 in size, has laminated card covers and wire binding and cartoons
> drawn by Michael Blenkarn.
> 
> It's available from Judith Proctor, 28 Diprose Rd, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne,
> Dorset, BH21 3QY, England for 5 pounds in the UK, 5.70 pounds to Europe, or $11
> cash to the USA, 6.80 pounds to Australia.
> 
> Judith
> 
> -- 
> http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7
> 
> Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention  
> 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent
> http://www.smof.com/redemption/
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:35:28 +0100 (BST)
> From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
> To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
> Subject: [B7L] Travis has three faces
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> On Tue 15 Dec, Julie Horner wrote:
> > Judith said:
> >=20
> > >There's an interesting comment in 'Weapon' where Travis refers to his =
> visits
> > >to the 'retraining therapist'. What's that about? Did it involve some =
> kind of
> > >mental manipulation. On days when I'm treating the two Travisis as sep=
> arate
> > >individuals (which I do occasionally for purposes of writing a story) =
> then  I
> > >assume that the 'retraining' was to make the second man believe that h=
> e was
> > >the first as this is the first episode in which Brian Croucher appears=
> . The
> > >first Travis became unstable or died in a fight or accident (or Serval=
> an had
> > >him killed). Brain prints are a given technology in Blake's 7, as is m=
> emory
> > >adjustment, so it woud not be impossible to create a second Travis. Th=
> e fact
> > >that Servalan used the first Blake clone to test Travis is also indica=
> tive.
> > >Why test unless you have a reason to? And what was the involvement of =
> the
> > >clonemasters? Did they create the second Travis as well as the Blake c=
> lones?
> >=20
> > That is a really interesting theory but surely if the clonemasters had
> > created the second Travis they would have made him look like the first =
> (after
> > all they managed that with Blake)  Also how would one explain the fact =
> that
> > other characters knew that it was Travis?
> 
> I was waiting for that question <evil grin>.  I worked out a hypothesis t=
> hat I'm
> rather fond of and developed it into a story a while back.
> 
> Southern Comfort 9.5 'The Travis Affair' which is (as far as I know) the =
> only
> Travis/Travis story in existence.  Here's some (slightly censored) extrac=
> ts that
> explain one possible theory as to why each Travis looked the way he did.
> 
> 
> The story opens during 'Aftermath'
> 
> 
> Avon stood over Servalan as she lay sprawled on Hal Mellanby's floor.
> 
> "Imagination my only limit?  I'd be dead in a week."
> 
> "But you have to admit, it would be a fascinating week."
> 
> He allowed himself to laugh, the smile spreading over his face.  Servalan=
>  had
> style, you had to grant her that.  She held out a hand, graciously permit=
> ting
> him to assist her from the floor.  The seduction wasn't over yet: the ope=
> ning
> negotiations had been concluded, their basic bargaining positions establi=
> shed;
> now the game began in earnest.  Avon took the proffered hand, with the sl=
> ightest
> mocking hint of a courtly bow.  They had plenty of time until the Mellanb=
> ys
> returned from their foray against the Sarrans.  Perhaps she would convinc=
> e him
> to abandon Blake, perhaps she wouldn't, but the game, with its multiple
> overtones of power and sex, was worth playing for its own sake.
> 
> "All you want is another Travis, just someone to follow your orders."
> 
> "Not true."  Her voice was low and throaty as she caressed his cheek with=
>  a long
> slender finger.  "I need a man with a mind of his own, someone whose skil=
> ls
> complement my own.  Someone=99" her eyes traversed his figure up and down=
> , and
> then gazed directly into his own, "=99 someone I find attractive."
> 
> Avon tilted Servalan's chin up and kissed her ruthlessly.  "Was that why =
> you had
> him changed?" he inquired.
> 
> "Changed?  I can't imagine what you're talking about."
> 
> He slid an arm around her waist and pulled her tight against him.  "Can't=
>  you?"
> 
> Warm and firm, her body conveyed a message that had nothing to do with th=
> e
> spoken conversation.  "The records of Travis' trial are conclusive.  No o=
> ne
> challenged his identity =99 the judicial computer confirmed both fingerpr=
> int and
> retina scan."  Servalan's hands moulded themselves against him.  "Don't y=
> ou
> think we should continue this conversation elsewhere?"
> 
> But Avon's curiosity had been piqued.  "So, you had the records altered."
> 
> "On the contrary," her smile was pure innocence, "the records were not on=
> ly
> genuine, even men from his own unit identified him when they were called =
> upon to
> give evidence."
> 
> "You're telling me that the original Travis was the fake?"
> 
> "Correct."
> 
> "Then why..."  His words petered out.  "Ah!"
> 
> "I knew you'd see it."  Her hands worked on his black, silk shirt, openin=
> g it
> and caressing the warm skin inside.  "That's why I need you.  Working wit=
> h slow
> minds is so tiresome."=20
> 
> "You needed to get rid of the original Travis; he knew too much about you=
> r
> fiasco with Orac.  But you didn't actually have the original Travis, only=
>  a man
> who thought he was Travis.  To put him on public trial - it would have be=
> en too
> suspicious had he died suddenly =99 you needed the real thing.  A clone t=
> hen."
> 
> "Exactly.  The real Travis died in a space accident three days before he =
> was due
> to take charge of the hunt for Blake.  I needed him.  His hatred and obse=
> ssion
> for Blake gave him that extra edge.  So, I made a new Travis."
> 
> Which answered everything.  The Federation were experts at memory manipul=
> ation.=20
> No doubt they'd taken what they could get from the dying man's mind and t=
> hen
> topped it up with every detail possible from Travis' service record.  Who=
>  their
> victim had been before the transformation didn't really matter.  Avon fou=
> nd
> himself unable to care greatly about the man, although Blake would probab=
> ly have
> found countless ironies in the situation.  Blake, who had seen only the e=
> yepatch
> that distinguished Travis so strongly, and never wondered about the man b=
> ehind
> it.
> 
> And what would Blake think now, if he could see Avon caressing Servalan? =
>  The
> thought was perversely delightful; thumbing his nose at Blake gave Avon a=
>  great
> sense of freedom.  Travis' fate could wait for another day.  Bending down=
> , he
> scooped Servalan into his arms, and carried her into the bedroom.
> 
> -----------------------------------
> Explosions blossomed across the sky, strange exotic flowers that could ne=
> ver
> have grown on the surface of this world.  Fen stood amongst the low clipp=
> ed
> hedges of the formal garden and watched with the patience of the very old=
> .  Why
> the invaders had come to this galaxy she did not know, but the ancient co=
> mpact
> that the clonemasters had relied on for five centuries was over - each fa=
> lling
> shard arcing bright against the sky was another step closer to death.  Th=
> e
> Andromedans had no need of those whose skill lay in cloning human tissue.=
>   When
> one side could use a weapon and the other could not, the balance to be ga=
> ined by
> protecting it was gone.
> 
> They were old.  They were all old.  Perhaps it was right that their time =
> should
> come.  Another deadly flower exploded, sending crimson showers flaring br=
> ight
> against the stars. It might have been possible to seek shelter against th=
> e
> radiation, but she chose not to go; her world was passing and she would p=
> ass
> with it.  The human race in all its genetic diversity would continue.  Li=
> fe
> would continue, and that was all that mattered.  People who demanded her
> services never realised that cloning was ultimately a form of stagnation.=
>   It
> was not for man or woman to determine the ultimate form of humanity; such=
>  hubris
> sowed the seeds of its own downfall.  The clonemasters had realised that =
> long
> ago.  Manipulate men solely to gain strength and you lost versatility.  B=
> reed
> for one feature and there was always a cost elsewhere.  The Rule of Life =
> said
> 'copy, but do not create' and there was wisdom in that rule.  Natural sel=
> ection
> was slow, but it was certain.  She wondered idly, how many people realise=
> d that
> the ultimate purpose of the clonemasters had been to prevent cloning?  Pr=
> omise
> to clone soldiers for one side if the other developed cloning techniques,=
>  and
> you had the key to stagnation in the art.  A fine balance, one dependent =
> on
> politics as much as threat.  Fen had been a master in the art of diplomac=
> y.  She
> knew that, and had no qualms regarding pride.  Making the occasional clon=
> e had
> always been necessary for political reasons, both to bribe leaders and to=
>  remind
> others of her power.
> 
> Somewhere out there were men that she had created.  Somewhere, buried in =
> the
> soil of the garden, beneath the carefully trained roses, there lay the bo=
> dies of
> men whom she had allowed to be destroyed.  She felt a mild regret for the=
>  death
> of the first Blake clone, but he had been newly formed with no memories o=
> f his
> own.  Had Travis ever realised that that clone had been made, not to test=
>  her
> accuracy in making Blakes, but to test his own reactions as a newly forme=
> d
> Travis? To make a clone who was unaware of his own nature was the harder =
> art -
> the memory transfer had to be an exact and painstaking process. She had s=
> pared
> the original Travis by way of atonement for the death of the living Blake=
>  clone.=20
> The clone she had created of the first Travis had never come to wakening,=
>  but
> its dead body had been sufficient to convince Servalan of the man's death.
> 
> Where was he now, the man to whom she had granted life in accordance with=
>  the
> Rule of Life?
> 
> A new star burst directly overhead and she welcomed it with open arms eve=
> n as
> the impact burst around her.  The mysteries of this life were over, but s=
> he had
> faith in the next.
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> 
> Travis laughed aloud as the ship flipped over in a tight loop.  The sheer
> exhilaration of being in space again was worth any price.  An alien ship =
> flashed
> briefly into view and his co-pilot sent a short, sharp laser burst toward=
> s it.=20
> Twist and turn, the old skill hadn't deserted him yet.  What did he care =
> for the
> people in Krantor's corrupt empire?  He hadn't volunteered for their sake=
> s, but
> to be in space once more.  The scanner showed a second ship moving to bra=
> cket
> him.  A three second burn on the retros and he dropped back, evaded the t=
> rap,
> and headed low into the planet's gravity well.  The Andromedans fought ba=
> dly
> close to atmosphere, he'd already learnt that.  Their ships might have be=
> en
> ideal for crossing deep space, but their total lack of aerodynamics gave =
> them
> too much drag to manoeuvre well.
> 
> Unheeding of his danger, the Andromedan pilot followed.  Travis held his =
> course,
> down, straight down, until the man beside him clenched at the arms of his=
>  seat
> in terror.  Energy bolts streaked past them, fiery trails marking their p=
> assage.=20
> Only when the hull sensors showed a temperature approaching the safety ma=
> ximum
> did he begin to pull his ship's nose up.  A pursuit ship, he would have t=
> aken
> past the safety margin, but this aged blockade runner was twenty years ou=
> t of
> date and in need of a good overhaul.  The hull vibrated as the ship resis=
> ted the
> turn, the short stubby wings barely holding up under the strain.  With th=
> e
> momentum gained from the dive, he sped upwards, twisting into another loo=
> p to
> come suddenly past the alien ship, allowing his partner to rake her flank=
> s with
> laser bursts.
> 
> Fire burst from the aft of the vessel, spreading in jagged tongues across=
>  her
> hull.  Three seconds later, she exploded.
> 
> Travis didn't wait for applause, not that there would have been any.  The=
> re
> would be more of them out there.  A tight orbit to lose any that were wai=
> ting
> for him to emerge, and then back into the fray.  He hadn't had this much =
> fun
> since...
> 
> Since he'd met his counterpart.
> 
> 
> It had been the week after Christmas, shortly before Mardi Gras.  Freedom=
>  City
> didn't operate by any normal calendar, it simply moved from one festival =
> to
> another.  The croupiers had all put away the red suits which seemed to be
> traditional for the season and were wearing what passed for their normal =
> attire.=20
> Establishments around the rink were busy, but far from overflowing.  He'd=
>  heard
> about Travis almost as soon as the man had landed.  It would have been ha=
> rd not
> to.  Every third client passing through the brothel where he worked took =
> pride
> in informing him that he had a twin brother hanging around Chenie's place=
> :
> another man with an eyepatch and an artificial arm.  And every one of the=
> m
> thought that the joke was original to him.  He'd nearly broken the fifth =
> man's
> arm.  It would have been so easy to claim that he'd tried to leave withou=
> t
> paying his girl, but then too many people roughed up were bad for busines=
> s and
> it was a good job, he even got a free night with the girls when he wanted=
>  it.
> 
> Once his duty shift ended at 2am, he'd gone to Chenie's to investigate fo=
> r
> himself.
> 
> The woman behind the bar was statuesque and blonde, not his type at all. =
>  She
> raised an eyebrow at him as he pounded a fist on the wood to attract her
> attention.
> 
> "Don't say it," he growled.
> 
> She tossed her head carelessly and looked him in the eye.  "I wasn't goin=
> g to."
> 
> "Where is he?"
> 
> "Travis?"  The amount of contempt she managed to get into the word was am=
> azing.=20
> "Why should I know?"
> 
> He dropped a ten credit piece onto the counter, where it span and finally
> wobbled to a halt. She pocketed the coin disdainfully, dropping it into s=
> ome
> hidden recess in her overfrilled costume.  "He's a spacer, always after n=
> ews of
> incoming ships.  You'll likely find him at one of the spaceport flophouse=
> s; him
> and Kline."
> 
> "Kline?"
> 
> "Never heard of him."
> 
> Impatient with her obvious play for more money, Travis snatched out with =
Dita, President and Supreme Commander of the Terran Federation.

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