Blakes 7

Blakes 7



Year:
1978
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Commentator:
[voiceover, dignified and measured] Space. "The Final Frontier" as it was once called. A weightless, freezing vacuum, here created artificially and maintained by the central computer as one of the hundreds of different environments offered by the combat grounds for the coming battle.

[the viewscreen shows shifting scenes of different environments:
oceans, rocky shores, tropical beaches, etc.]

Commentator:
In giant chambers, exact recreations like these you see are controlled by the combat computer. Environments from other planets, other cultures, other times. The computer will choose which of these environmental chambers will be used for the battle. This choice is what the combat grounds are all about. In the words of the Convention, "Let no man say, 'This man chose the ground on which we die.'"

[Darvid stands in front of a combat grounds chamber entrance]

Commentator:
The combatants will each enter the chamber through a door like this. Only the computer will know what awaits them on the other side. Their only clue will lie in this locker, which contains protective clothing and specialized weapons, should the environment behind that door require them.

[Darvid holds his hand against ear for a couple of seconds.]

Commentator:
And I've just been told that the combatants are in fact now arriving at the spaceport, and we are going across to join the thousands of cheering spectators who are waiting to catch a glimpse of the two men on whose skill the outcome of this war depends.

Roj Blake:
[sits with Avon in the bridge pit] The others have decided to go with me.

Kerr Avon:
[smiles] I thought they would. Not very bright, but loyal.

Roj Blake:
That leaves you.

Kerr Avon:
I have thought about it.

Roj Blake:
And?

[silent pause]

Roj Blake:
Come on Avon, stop playing games. Are you going to go with me or not?

Kerr Avon:
[looks hurt] Well, of course. I am surprised you ever doubted it.

Roj Blake:
Thank you.

Kerr Avon:
Frankly, I don't see how you can do it without me. Your strongest enemies are going to be the defense computers. I am the only one qualified to tackle them.

Roj Blake:
Yes, that had occurred to me. You better start getting kitted up. Do you want to tell me why?

Kerr Avon:
I like the challenge.

Roj Blake:
You don't want to tell me why.

Kerr Avon:
If we succeed, if we destroy Control, the Federation will be at its weakest. It will be more vulnerable than it has been for centuries. The revolt in the Outer Worlds will grow. The resistance movements on Earth will launch an all-out attack to destroy the Federation. They will need unifying. They will need a leader. *You* will be the natural choice.

Roj Blake:
Possibly.

Kerr Avon:
Don't be modest, Blake. You are the only one that they would all follow. You would have no choice. You would have to stay on Earth and organize the revolt.

Roj Blake:
If there's no other way.

Kerr Avon:
There wouldn't be.

Roj Blake:
That still doesn't explain why you're backing me.

Kerr Avon:
With you running the campaign on Earth, somebody has to take charge... of all this.

Roj Blake:
[laughs] You want the Liberator.

Kerr Avon:
[almost laughs] Exactly. If we succeed, the destruction of Control gives us both what we want.

Roj Blake:
Could be you're planning just a little far ahead.

Kerr Avon:
[nods] Perhaps. But sooner or later, I will have my chance.

Roj Blake:
There's no hurry.

Kerr Avon:
Shut up, Tarrant.

Del Tarrant:
Did you say something to me?

Kerr Avon:
I said, "Shut up." I apologize for not realizing you are deaf.

Del Tarrant:
[approaches Avon] There's something else you don't realize. I don't take any orders from you.

Kerr Avon:
Well, now that's a great pity, considering that your own ideas are so limited.

Del Tarrant:
Don't try and bluff your way with me, Avon. I know what's been needling you right from the start. With Blake gone, you thought you'd got it made, didn't you? Thought you'd got control of this ship and a crew of three who'd say, "Yes, Avon. Whatever you want, Avon." But you reckoned without me.

Kerr Avon:
That wouldn't be too difficult.

Del Tarrant:
Oh, really? I don't think so. When you found me on the Liberator, it was quite a blow. And every time you look at me, it hits you harder, doesn't it? I'm faster than you and I'm sharper. As far as it goes, I've made a success of my life. But you? The only big thing you ever tried to do you failed at. The greatest computer swindle of all time... but you couldn't quite pull it off, could you? If it hadn't been for Blake, you'd be rotting on Cygnus Alpha right now. No, you failed, Avon. But I win. Not just at games, at life.

Kerr Avon:
[turning away] You also talk too much.

Del Tarrant:
Be thankful I'm restricting myself to talk.

Kerr Avon:
[turning back] Well now, that's fascinating. You mean you can do something else?

Dayna Mellanby:
[stepping between them] Oh, stop this. What are you doing? Warming up to cutting each other's throats?

Del Tarrant:
[turns away] Avon. Do you want to forget I said all that?

Kerr Avon:
It wasn't particularly memorable.

Dayna Mellanby:
We need sleep. All of us. Even you need sleep, Tarrant.

Del Tarrant:
And tomorrow, everything will look different?

Kerr Avon:
If it does, you can assume you're on the wrong ship.

[Blake has been invited to a rebel meeting several years after his brainwashing]

Bran Foster:
Now, I want you to listen to what I have to tell you. After that you can do whatever you like.

Roj Blake:
All right. Now what do you know about my family?

Bran Foster:
Well, I'll come to that. There are other things you should know first.

Roj Blake:
Forget the other things. Just what do you know?

Bran Foster:
They're dead. Your brother and sister are both dead. I'm sorry, I didn't intend you to hear it like that. They were executed four years ago just after your trial.

Roj Blake:
[disbelievingly] Executed? No, that's not true. I hear from them regularly. I had a vistape only a month ago.

Bran Foster:
Those tapes are fakes. Part of the treatment to keep your memory suppressed. Now, this isn't going to be easy for you, but I'm going to have to tell you things about yourself of which you have no memory. Will you hear me out?

Roj Blake:
Go on.

Bran Foster:
Four years ago, there was a good deal of discontent with the Administration. There were many activist groups. But the only one that really meant anything was led by Roj Blake. You and I worked together. We were outlawed and hunted. But we had supporters and we were making progress. Then someone betrayed us, I still don't know who. You were captured. So were most of our followers. They could have killed you. But that would have given the Cause a martyr. So instead they put you into intensive therapy. They erased areas of your mind, they implanted new ideas. They literally took your mind to pieces and rebuilt it. And when they'd finished, they put you up and you confessed. You said you'd been "misguided." You appealed to everyone to support the Administration, hound up the traitors. Oh, they, they did a good job on you. You were very convincing. And then they took you back and erased even that.

Roj Blake:
What happened to the others?

Bran Foster:
In their benevolence, the Federation allowed them to emigrate to the Outer Worlds. Like your family, they were executed on arrival.


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  • EltonLaleham
    I liked B7 and servalan the arch-enemy was awesome in billions of ways
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