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in a few of the other prisoners. It would seem more reasonable to fit the limiter if they wanted to release him back into the community. I can think of a few reasons none of which are particuarly backed up by what we see in the series...just speculation... Maybe it was an experiement. Or maybe it didn't work properly. Leia

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Ol' Roj was a might fighting man A rebel brave and true Avon said if he got them killed It was something he would rue It was something he would rue The conflict started getting tough With troubles they were fraught But sometimes when the fight died down The Federation could be fought. The Federation could be fought The ship flew on through the course of these Kind of twisted plots Though fans know how it all turned out They still debate them lots They still debate them lots With Vila Restal Avon, too The implant guy (but not his wife) The smuggler star The psychic and Mary S-Anne Here on Liberator! No props No guns No CGI Not a single luxurey Like Star Trek in the 60's It's primitive as can be. But join us here each week, my friend See destruction in their wake With seven cranky, fighting crew Here, on Seven of Blake! 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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====================== Since AOL seems determined not to load any of my websites lately, I am in the midst of moving a lot of my sites to an independent server. I've begun the process by moving most of the Fanzine pages. Some of the graphics might not come up the first time (or at all) right now since many of them are on AOL and who knows what the heck is going on with AOL right now. There is some news about new and upcoming fanzines on the pages. There will be more definitive updates soon. Another new update you can see right now, if you're a Blakes 7 fan: I've updated the Southern Comfort page to feature all of the covers for every issue we've done over the years. The new main page for our fanzines is: http://www.ashtonpress.ma-at.net/zines.htm The old pages are still there, for the moment (IF you can get AOL to load them), but please change your bookmarks if you have any of our fanzine sites bookmarked (you can see the new addresses for all of the subsites if you go to the main one and follow the links). I'll probably start moving some of the fan fiction sites next. And, news regarding a HL alumni (from, I believe, the most "beloved" episode <g> "The Zone"), check out the site and information that follows for news of Michael Shanks (late of Stargate SG-1): Forwarded on behalf of http://www.savedanieljackson.com. BTW, you can also now see the latest full page ad placed in the Hollywood Reporter by Michael Shanks fans. It is linked from the front page of the site (you can also see the TV Zone ad linked from there.) The HR weekly edition goes on sale today. The latest Michael Shanks interview from Cult Times #77 is up and linked right from the homepage at Stargate Solutions. As always, extracts are posted with permission from Visimag. There are also a number of other interview extracts posted at the site, all with permission from the magazines. Whew. This is a long one... I've also made some updates to the Fan Fiction site since the last time I posted one of these notices. Some to the Holiday Fan Fiction site and some to the main fan fiction site (all Highlander stories on the main site and some Highlander on the holiday site): http://members.aol.com/ashton7/holiday.htm http://members.aol.com/pelkiepet/stories.htm Annie "Maybe if you watched the episodes you didn't write, you'd know what was happening." -- Robert C. Cooper (Executive Producer and writer) to Joe Malozzi (Producer and writer) at Gatecon, Vancouver. September 2001.

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A book 'Travis' Amateur Organinist' Any other accidental hobbies for B7 characters? 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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Almost immediately after Orac's arrival on the Liberator the ship is taken over by the System. (And as for the shortly-to-be-named Liberator being in the vicinity of a space battle and the London - Orac set everything up. Why else would Blake, Avon, Jenna and Vila have ended up on the same prison ship? Orac needs a pilot for the Liberator, a computer expert is useful, as is someone with Vila's practical experience - which would include manipulating computers, and Blake the rebel would, perhaps, become more reliant on Orac than the Federation.) So Ensor left the System - not necessarily as a rebel - with the basics of Tarriel cell technology, and developed it within the Federation. Thus Orac is able to take over Zen, because their structures are compatible. Any comments? 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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not necessarily in control of it - the tinned thalamus-equivalent of = Coser, if you like, stealing it's own invention. >The question is is it possible to rid the remains of the Liberator of = the particles? In Terminal, the auto-repair was keeping the damage at bay, but the = power running the auto repair was finite. Also, the auto-repair could = not repair the damage fast enough to get ahead. Perhaps if you envisage = a faster auto-repair system with greater power reserves, it could have = been done.

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BLAKE: Oh, they did a memory erase on me, set up a show trial, had me confess, made me explain that I had been misled, that my political ideas were mistaken. Enough people believed me. The whole resistance movement collapsed. After that the Federation kept me around as a, a reformed character, a sort of ideal model citizen exhibit. Of course, I didn't know that at the time. No, it's only since almost exactly the same thing has happened again that the memory erase has begun to fade and I can remember. So, if it *was* the repeat of the massacre that broke down the memory-blocks, then it's possible that keeping Blake around as a 'reformed' rebel wouldn't, in practise, work. The conflict between the artificially implanted belief that his ideals were misguided, and the evidence all around him that they *weren't*, might have undone the conditioning. If that were true, it would be safer to take away all memories of being a rebel, therefor reducing the conflict. >In the latter case, they *could* serve as hostages >for his continued good behavior, but in the former, >he would be an awe-inspiring example of the high >cost of rebellion and therefore an effective deterrent. In TWB, the Federation seems to be a lot more subtle in its oppression than it becomes later, or perhaps that's merely an illusion caused by TWB being set on Earth. Memory erase is officially banned (according to Veron), suppressants are a secret, serious criminals are deported rather than executed. A fiction that relatives or associates of resisters are allowed to leave or are deported from Earth rather than killed would fit in with that. To the wider population of the domes, Blake was seen to recant his crimes, and is now living quietly in the Dome. They will never get a chance to meet him in person, so they don't know he now has no memories of his rebellion. Should the Federation need him again, he can always be re-mind-fucked. To his closer associates, the people who knew him before and any resisters who weren't captured when Blake was, he's an object lesson of a different kind--try and resist the Federation, and this is what will happen to you. The idea of having your memories and personality so profoundly tampered with would be fairly frightening. >-(Y) love Anna

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to be from the nuclear compression charge), and centimetres in "City" = when locating the tracer that Vila purposely left behind.

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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. 2) Since the dissident group in The Way Back felt the defection of one world would have impact and that it was a practical goal (even the most starry eyed idealists might have thought twice if it was one world vs thousands) but it was still possible to run into a new one each week, it seems safe to suppose the Federation had a few hundred planets. Sounds like a lot but, as this galaxy's supposed to have 100 billion stars in it, that means they could all be pretty close to home. 3) Take a look at Federation astrogation. In Deliverance, the small ship cuts through a solar system it has no reason to visit. There are a few other hints and references that ships move from one system to another even when that system isn't any part of their destination (the frequency with which they run into other ships while orbiting planets they didn't intend to land on until the fighting started, for example). This implies their astrogation is still pretty crude. They avoid plotting straight lines over great distances and instead seem to move to the nearest navigable point then on to the next. Add to this Cally's comments in Star One when they leave the galaxy, even if it's only a short distance. Whether or not Liberator or some Federation ships would be capable of navigating there, no one seems comfortable with the idea. 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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