Blakes' 7: Season Two

Episode Details

Redemption

Blake is troubled by Orac's prediction of the destruction of the Liberator and rewatches the explosion time and time again. Eventually, Avon points out that the starfield is unique and they can work out where it is. They soon find themselves under attack and the Liberator refuses to respond to their instructions.

The Liberator is boarded and the crew taken captive by the computer dominated race who originally built the ship. Held prisoner on a large space station, they escape, meet up with the resistance and try to retake control of the Liberator and escape. In the escape, an identical sister ship to the Liberator is destroyed. This explains the earlier prediction.


Shadow

The crew decide to investigate a deadly drug that is being circulated on many worlds called Shadow. Cally suffers from a mysterious ailment which appears to be linked in some way to the drug. They find evidence of a major crime syndicate and soon discover that it is being run by the Federation.


Weapon

Blake finds out that the Federation are developing a new deadly weapon that can attack the DNA of a given person. He tries to infiltrate the research station where it is being developed and capture it.


Horizon

Horizon is a small planet on the very edge of the known Galaxy that has become a puppet government for the Federation who are mining a valuable mineral there. The extensive security grid leads to each of the parties that go down from the liberator being captured almost as soon as they get there. Can they stop the flow of this important mineral to the Federation?


Pressure Point

Gan dies when Blake's plan to attack the Federation's main computer centre turns out to be a trap placed for them by Servalan.


Trial

Travis is placed on trial for crimes against the Federation (namely the mass murder of civilians, during a planetary attack). He is found guilty and sentenced to death --- but an attack by the Liberator causes enough confusion to allow him to escape...

Review by Mark Chase, Mark=Chase%Ops%Ops=Akl@bangate.compaq.com


Killer

The Liberator encounters an ancient Earth ship drifting in deep space. Cally senses something evil on it. So when Federation scientists on the planet Fosforon decide to bring the ship down to the ground, Blake anonymously sends them a message urging caution.

Meanwhile, Avon and Vila have teleported down to Fosforon in order to steal an important piece of Federation cypher equipment they need. They are aided by the base commander, who owes Avon for a favor he did long ago. But the commander secretly sends a message to Servalan informing her of the whereabouts of the Liberator.

Blake's warning is useless. The Fosforon scientists discover a seemingly recently-dead body on board the very, very, very ancient Earth ship and cautiously perform an autopsy on it. But the body wakes and kills the scientist in its immediate facility. Then an airborne virus spreads through the base like wildfire. It seems that a certain alien race left the ship drifting as bait, so that humans would contract the virus (effective only on travelers in space) and stay on Earth (instead of swarming through the rest of the Universe). The entire base's population dies.

Blake, Avon, and Vila only just get out in time. But they have the cypher crystal and are not infected by the virus. They leave a message for anyone coming to Fosforon warning them of the plague. (In other words, they save Servalan's life -- she is coming due to the base commander's message -- and the lives of all the other space-traveling humans in the galaxy.)

Review by Jim Fung (dim@wile.thetech.org)


Hostage

Blake recieves a distress call - summoning him to his adoptive homeworld. Once there he meets his old mentor, and discovers that his beloved cousin has been kidnapped by Travis, and is being used as bait to gain control of the Liberator.

Review by Mark Chase, Mark=Chase%Ops%Ops=Akl@bangate.compaq.com


Countdown

A blast from the past for Avon. The brother of the woman he loved seeks revenge for her death - but he and Avon must put aside their emnity and work together to save a world from a poisonous time bomb!

Review by Mark Chase, Mark=Chase%Ops%Ops=Akl@bangate.compaq.com


Voice From The Past

Blake appears to have broken down. Someone, or something, seems to be manipulating Blake, using the Federation's brain-washing to make Blake and his crew go to Asteroid PK118. When Blake discovers he has been summoned by high ranking resistance sympathisers, who plan to expose Servalan and the Federation Council, it appears that Blake's quest might finally be over - one way or the other...

Review by Rod Knight, knight@wg.telstar.com.au


Gambit

Searching for information on STAR ONE - Blake, Genna. and Cally teleport to a 'Free' Gambling world in search of a renegade Federation surgeon (unaware that he is the same doctor who gave Travis his prosthetic arm, and that Travis has also tracked him down).

Meanwhile, unable to resist the lure of the gambling world, Villa and Avon shrink Orac to 1/8th of his size and go to make their fortune by beating an undefeated chess champion, with death being the penalty...

Review by Mark Chase, Mark=Chase%Ops%Ops=Akl@bangate.compaq.com


The Keeper

The crew attempt to track down the location of the Federation's main computer centre, Star One. The location has always been a closely guarded secret and people assigned there have agreed never to return - to spend the rest of their lives tending Star One's computer systems.

Blake and his crew search for the one possible lead to Star One, a doctor who treated the only remaining person in the Federation who knows where Star One is (before his death). Their search for the true location takes them to a primitive world, where a cryptic rhyme holds the answer.


Star One

Upon finally reaching Star One, they discover that Travis is aiding an alien invasion from the Andromeda galaxy by dismantling the barrier maintained by Star One.

Now instead of destroying it, they repair the damage Travis has done, warn the Federation, and attempt to hold the invasion fleet until the rest of the Federation forces can arrive.


Choose: onwards to the third season, or back to the first season.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
19th July 1995