Blakes7 January 2002

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Re: Fanfic
by Tavia 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Coming into this thread rather late, sorry.... Why write it? Pretty much all my completed fiction, fan and otherwise, has been of the won't-let-me-sleep-otherwise variety... I tend to come up with ideas while trying to sleep, and often have to scribble them on afuton-side scrap of paper to have a chance of sleep. I've never written fiction for an audience, but it rounds off the experience to get affirmation from friends, and it's a real thrill getting praise from strangers. Tavia

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RE: [B7L] B7 thinking... (was Names)
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Leia wrote: > Nico wrote... > >I know I'm obsessed with B7 when every time I see a 'Cynos > >a' car (where a > >is the small Greek letter alpha -!!!) I think of Cygnus Alpha. > > You should have seen my eyes bug out when I was walking along > the beach and > look up at the wall next to the new promenade and see DELTA emblazoned > across the wall. Seems the council saw fit to write the > Greek alphabet along the length of the shiny new walkway. I'm amazed at how often I see Delta everywhere. There are Delta Growers (fresh green beans etc) the Delta Queen paddle steamer on the Waikato river, Delta Transport etc. It seems a popular letter for some reason. You don't see mu, iota or epsilon used much. A search of the Auckland on-line white pages turned up 15 Delta businesses. Here's a sample: Delta Hypnotherapy (oh no, do they do adjustments and mind wipes?), Bakehouse, Car Rentals, Dog Training (bit of an insult, that), Educational Supplies, Painters, Software, Valves and Controls, the K-Delta Restaurant, and Delta Quadrant Consultants - they must be Voyager fans. In summary, there are 44 Alpha businesses, 4 Betas, 8 Gammas, 15 Deltas and 1 Eta (peanuts of course!). Nico *** This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. ***

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RE: Re: [B7L] Names [was Self-insertion]
by Sally M 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Nico wrote: <You're quite right. I had thought of that, but just with the Dels - that it's a future version of John, making that resort planet John 10.> Maybe there was a very famous Del a couple of centuries past - an explorer or Federation hero, whatever - called Del, and both babies and places have been named after him every since :-) re the Tarrants, I believe there was no ulterior reason for them, Terry Nation simply had a liking for the name, but it's rather fun (if stretching coincidence, but that's rather an art form in B7) to imagine that there *is* a family connection ... _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: [B7L] Speed freaks?
by Ellynne G. 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

> > And that's it. Helpful? Probably not, but it's all they gave us. > And put together by some incredible research. Thank you! Theories on the strange time/speed factors - 1. B7, as we saw it, was taken from Vila's memoirs and he just wrote down whatever sounded good. 2. There never was a Vila. Avon made him up when he wrote his memoirs to blame for anything he did that wouldn't have fit his brilliant image. Consequently, the times and speeds he made up don't sound too convincing either. 3. Given the fact that Vila doesn't get blamed for shooting Blake, maybe Vila made Avon up. Hmm, according to that theory, S4 really went something more like - Rescue - "All right, Dayna, if you're that worried about the ship Servalan left, just toss in one of those furry creatures, first. What harm could it do?" Power - "I know. Let's have a house warming party and invite all the neighbors." Traitor - "Believe me, Helotrix is a great place to spend a vacation. And it's not like we have to worry about running into anyone we know." Stardrive - "Oops. Sorry, Dr. Plaxton." Animals - "Oops. Sorry, Og." Headhunter - The entire text of how Vila accidentally took the android instead of the doctor, how the doctor was accidentally left without a head, and how the android was then accidentally blown up is too painful to go into. Assassin - "Soolin, there's this woman, Piri. She's a deadly assissin. Really. Any stories she tells about how I borrowed a lot of money and then took off are just part of a clever cover story. Honest." Sand - "Let me get this straight, Soolin. Even though I'm the only male on the ship, the sand still voted to get rid of me?" Games - "Me? Cheat?" Gold - Vila steal worthless gold. When Vila actually finds a fence who can use it, he sells it for fake money. Orbit - "Let me see if I got this right, Orac. If I stay on the ship, it crashes. So, you're saying the only way I can keep that from happening and save myself is by throwing me off the ship. But what if I won't cooperate?" "You could shoot yourself first." "Good point. And I might even do it. I'd better go hide before I find myself and get a chance." [turns to run, trips over superdense matter]. Warlord - The elaborate story of how Zukan sold them out personally to a Federation agent who blew up his ship is 100% true. Honest. Just because Vila was a little curious about how the ship's engine worked and had a look at it doesn't mean he had anything to do with the deadly accident - er, sabotage. In the same way, Xeona died heroically to save them and not because any thieves may have 'borrowed' her good pair of gloves. Blake - "Blake, we found you at la- Oops. Sorry. Thought I had the safety on." Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

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Re: [B7L] Speed freaks?
by Anna Simpson 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

At 13:06 08/01/02 +0000, you wrote: >Anna wrote: >>Orac places the main computer at 'seven meters due west of the entrance' in >>Moloch, and uses meters again in Headhunter. > >Does Orac ever use yards? ie is he more likely to use metric >measurements than imperial? Orac never uses yards, but he uses miles in Orac. (But while checking, I noticed a slight mistake--the second reference to meters was in Power, not Headhunter.) Looking at other imperial measurements, inchs are alive and well. Tarrant asks for every inch of the ship searched in Powerplay, Orac refers to cubic inches in DotG, and Servalan comments of Tarrant's shooting skills at a distance on one inch in Sand. Centimeters, by contrast, are never mentioned. Examining miles more closely, they are used by Orac, Slave and the Crew, Servalan and Travis, and various other Ferderation minions and neutrals. Slave sets the initial orbit in Traitor at 40 miles above the surface, and 10 miles in Orbit. (The rendevous between the shuttle and Scorpio at the end of Orbit is set at 300 miles, rather more than the initial 10.) How any of this relates to the '1000 spacials' traditional for Liberator is unclear. It's more than possible that Scorpio sits in a much closer orbit, being a very much smaller ship and thus presumably less detectable. Knots (nautical miles per hour) are also in Orbit, by Egrorian, in their traditional role as a measure of airspeed. That is the only speed reference I could find which wasn't Time Distort or Standard By. >Harriet love Anna

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RE: Re: [B7L] space is big ...
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

"Ellynne G." <rilliara(a)juno.com> wrote: >From what little I know of astronomy, I long ago concluded that B7 occurs >in an alternate universe. Earth evolved the same, but the galaxy as we >know it seems to be radically different (ie, smaller). > >Skipping Travis' comment about how many galaxies he'd chased Blake >through (either he knew the ship was bugged and was posing for a good >sound bite, or 'galaxy' has an alternate meaning [either a political >division (like states and counties) or else it's the name of a fast food >restuarant chain]), the area seems pretty small. > >1) Every solar system people enter by chance seems to have a habitable >planet. Even if they only try to enter systems with a sun similiar to >ours, that suggests a high number of habitable worlds within a short >distance of Earth. > <snip> As we have the question 'what planet are you from' perhaps 'they' have 'what galaxy are you from?' and Travis 'borrowed' the idea Jacqui -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Re: [B7L] Starfleet Ball
by Nic Mayer 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson(a)mcr1.poptel.org.uk> > Starfleet Ball is only a month away (8-10 February, Bournemouth, UK) > with Jan and Sally among the guests: > I'm going. Who else on list is planning on being there? I will definitely be there on the Saturday, depending on how I feel after that I may or may not go back on the Sunday. Nic General (USMC) - Danny's Girls www.paranoidangel.freeserve.co.uk Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

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Re: Speed freaks?
by Betty Ragan 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Dana wrote: > Cf. Where am I going, and how did I get into this handbasket? I think that'd make a good motto for the series, actually. :) -- Betty Ragan ** bragan(a)nrao.edu ** http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bragan Not speaking for my employers, officially or otherwise. "Seeing a rotten picture for the special effects is like eating a tough steak for the smothered onions..." -- Isaac Asimov

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Space is Big...
by Dana Shilling 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Actually, a "space hour" sorta makes sense. I bet that it's a regret* of a light year--i.e., a space hour is the distance you can go in one hour at Standard. -(Y) *A small part. Demonstrably.

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Speed freaks?
by Sally M 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

I have a feeling there isn't an answer, so am inviting speculation and ideas and pure guesses ... how fast *is* 'standard' speed? Not as set-in-concrete terms, but, say, as a believable general idea one could use to build a story around, were one building it around a journey between planets. I mean, the time it takes them to go from one place to the other (including trips supposedly half-way across the galaxy!) varies all over the place on-screen. Are there any particular episodes you'd give more weight to as evidence than others? Any takers? _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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