Helen said about Servalan:

She does appear innocent in the beginning, I think because of the

hairstyle-- it's rather like the Peter Pan cut. I wonder if the changes in her retinue also helped with the illusion of powerful aging-- in the beginning, she stands next to Travis, and looks like she could be his teenage neice.<

Servalan never seems innocent to me. From the beginning she shows herself to be Travis's master (letting him wait for admission in Seek-Locate-Destroy). And in Deliverance she's already trying to strenghten her power by going behind the Federation's back in the Orac deal. Although well aware about the repercussions her actions will have on Marriott's wife and children, she's quite unconcerned about them. To me this shows she's power mad and rotten to the core right from the beginning.

"Pressure Point" actually verbalizes some of it; Servalan was apparently so

spoiled it never occurred to her even as a cadet that there were ethical concerns in the way the Federation operated. Kasabi considered her the epitome of what was wrong. Yet, in the end, Kasabi faulted herself for not having tried to reach through and find something decent within the brat.<

I'm not sure whether Kasabi really meant that, or if she just said the most hurtful thing she could think of. (And her words did hurt - splendid scene!)

Marian