From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #201 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: <blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se> archive/volume99/201 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 201 Today's Topics: Fwd: [B7L]Deathwatch [B7L] Red Dwarf\Eastenders [B7L] Complete Set of Videos for Sale [B7L] Missing zine pages [B7L] US Cons [B7L] Crashes and Backups.... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:57:40 EDT From: Tigerm1019@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Fwd: [B7L]Deathwatch Message-ID: <374c8436.24a6df14@aol.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part1_374c8436.24a6df14_boundary" --part1_374c8436.24a6df14_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_374c8436.24a6df14_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Tigerm1019@aol.com From: Tigerm1019@aol.com Full-name: Tigerm1019 Message-ID: <374c8436.24a6dddb@aol.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:52:27 EDT Subject: Re: [B7L]Deathwatch To: rilliara@juno.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 I finally get to feeling well enough to post and the list goes quiet. I'll just pick up a thread from a week or so ago. In a message dated 6/20/99 9:56:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, rilliara@juno.com writes: > Tarrant was fighting his duel for personal reasons and wasn't the > champion representing a planet's cause and interests. Different rules > may have applied. This is very possible. > Deeta speaks of it as if he's > >only > >recently had it implanted > > I understood it as Deeta (why would anyone name a child Deeta? Aren't > there laws against this kind of thing? But at least he isn't Data > [although the crossover people may speculate (yes, this does suggest > there were _two_ androids dueling. It also suggests Del Tarrant's real > name is Lore)]) having the implant put in just before the fight so > everyone could listen in. Hmmm, I had the impression that it had been put in when he became first champion. When Deeta charged it up before the duel, he made a comment to Max about "Let's see if it still works." As for the name, why would anyone name a kid Vila or Kerr or Meegat? How about Veron? Poor Deeta isn't the only character with a less than desireable first name.:-) > Outside of the official duels, he may have > been under no obligation to walk around with an implant--or anything > else--occupying empty space in his head (what can I say, I don't think > well of people who make a living as duelers). In the episode, Max told Del that both combatants had had microsensors implanted in their brains, connected to a conductive mesh that had been etched into the bone of the skull. That doesn't sound like it could be removed easily, if at all. This got me thinking about the Teal-Vandor Convention and the code duello that was apparently in force on these worlds. Their way of settling disputes did save a lot of lives and destruction. Also, with a hostile superpower on their borders, they couldn't afford to waste military strength fighting with each other. The whole point of Servalan's scheme was to get Teal and Vandor fighting with each other to weaken both systems and make them easy prey. I was struck by the circus atmosphere that surrounded the combat. I had the feeling that it didn't really matter that much to the average citizens of Teal and Vandor which side won; their lives weren't going to change. It seemed as though they didn't really care that someone *was* going to die. The duel was just entertainment to them. Deeta seemed to be quite fed up with this aspect of his job. Teal and Vandor both seemed to be very cultured and civilized on the surface, but with something nasty lurking under the facade of civility. Tiger M --part1_374c8436.24a6df14_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 02:37:54 EDT From: AdamWho@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Red Dwarf\Eastenders Message-ID: <34ffaa8.24a720c2@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On a Red Dwarf episode (the PBS station here is running season 8) the five crew members were jailed, and inadvertently volunteered to be part of a crew sent down to explore a ship abandoned by it's crew. Sound somewhat familiar? The rest of the story doesn't match Spacefall, but that part reminded me of B7. I saw an Eastenders episode recently, originally broadcast in 1997 in England, featuring Brian Croucher as a hardware store own with a teenage daughter. I guess that's as close to rerunning Blake's 7 as any PBS stations will ever come. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:47:05 +0100 (BST) From: "P.J.E. Kail" <pjek100@cus.cam.ac.uk> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Complete Set of Videos for Sale Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990627144627.28074A-100000@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Complete Set of BBC Blake's Seven for sale Offers? Peter *********************** Dr P J E Kail Faculty of Philosophy Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge University Tel (01223) 335094 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:30:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Sondra Sweigman <sweigman@world.std.com> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Missing zine pages Message-Id: <Pine.SGI.3.95.990627122730.20827C-100000@world.std.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone have a copy of the zine Dark Between the Stars #5? If so, would you be willing to photocopy 2 pages for me? I believe the pages in question are 87 and 88. At any rate, they're the pages which give a synopsis of the first 5 chapters of J.Kel's serial The Pattern of Infinity. (I pulled them out of my own copy for reference and have stupidly misplaced them.) If you can help me out with this, please e-mail me privately. Sondra ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:16:48 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> To: Lysator <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>, Space City <space-city@world.std.com> Subject: [B7L] US Cons Message-ID: <3776B0D3.7A89BB07@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for all the suggestions. Ecclecticon in Newark in November looks a possibility. Has anyone got the details or is there a web site for it. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson "What is it with you and holes?" Xena to Gabrielle, Paradise Found ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:16:14 +0200 From: Jacqueline Thijsen <jacqueline.thijsen@cmg.nl> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Crashes and Backups.... Message-ID: <39DCDDFD014ED21185C300104BB3F99F4BDEB9@NL-ARN-MAIL01> Content-Type: text/plain Had the former (#@$!%# harddisks), not the latter, so I've been without e-mail for the last three days. Fortunately my mailbox was on the company network, so I didn't loose anything important. But that's why I've been out of touch since thursday night. Just thought I'd let everyone know. Jacqueline -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V99 Issue #201 **************************************