Dana Shilling wrote
Jenny Kaye said:
It is a ship of serial rapists, murderers, paedophiles etc. This is
the
last stop for them. Many of them would have personality disorders.
What evidence do you have for this?
They are being sent to Cygnus Alpha. Professor Kayn states that if Gan hadn't been fitted with a limiter he would have been executed. There is not capital punishment for murder in the Federation (see debate), therefore Cygnus Alpha becomes the dumping ground.
Blake is a convicted child molester,
There you go!
but according to canon the only criminal records stated are:
- Vila--recidivist thief (although what he's actually shown doing in
subsequent episodes is more like safecracking, which is a specialist skill)
Vila says that he's had his head adjusted by the best in the business but that it just won't stay adjusted. They are now fed up with him. Off to Cygnus Alpha he goes. Jenna says to Blake in the TWB,"If you are expecting a last minute reprieve, forget it. Once they get you this far there's no going back."
- Avon--bank fraud (possibly though not certainly embezzlement,
which requires abuse of a fiduciary capacity)
There's more to Avon than that. As we go through the episodes you'll see.
- Jenna--"free trading." It doesn't sound serious enough to merit
lifetime exile, but the Federation seems more like the kind of place to heavily punish relatively trivial crimes than to spare the lives of murderers. And, after all, 18th and 19th century Britain did sentence people to transportation for long periods or for life even for trivial property crimes.
Jenna has been set up by the Terra Nostra.
- Gan--manslaughter, with the aggravating factor of killing a law
enforcement agent. Canon doesn't say that he killed anyone else (or any female) before the series starts.
Gan kills. He enjoys it. Women especially. It's there.
As has often been remarked, it is never stated what Nova has been convicted of (much less whether he did it or not).
We don't know much about Nova. But he associates with Vila and his name is the reverse of "Avon". I'd say he's a small time thief like Vila.
Nor is it stated
what Salman and Arco were convicted of
It was originally planned that both Salman and Arco would join the crew of the Liberator. Then Nation changed his mind. When we get to the episode Cygnus Alpha, we can see what the subtext says about them.
--or even the names of any
of the other prisoners (the ones who died on the London or the ones who stayed behind on Cygnus Alpha).
They are just extras.
There aren't any canonical lines like "Jenna, watch out for Muggles, he's a rapist" or "It's too bad that a poor little pickpocket like me
gets
stuck here with a bunch of Broadmoor cases."
That's because the writers of B7 want us to think.
PS--judging by the expression on her face, I suspect that what Jenna said to Raiker is a reversal of Blackadder's immortal insult--something about having wedding tackle the size of a weasel's brain.
If a pro keeps it simple, she would have said, "Fuck off dickhead"! :-)
Jenny
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