Blakes' 7: Season Two
Episode Details
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.
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.
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 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?
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.
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
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)
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
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
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
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 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.
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