Blakes 7 reboot maybe please
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Much better than anything Star Trek
Not even close from perusing those YouTube episodes.
'70s vintage BBC special effects weren't much to write home about (q.v. Doctor Who) but Blake's 7 had some excellent script writing and four really good characters that made the series.
- Jacqueline Pearce made a villain just as iconic as Darth Vader with a costume no more elaborate than an evening dress. Servalan is one of the best villains of any sci-fi series.
- Avon and Vila were really well imagined characters and the friction between them was classic.
- Peter Tuddenham made Orac a memorable character out of a perspex fish tank and a set of christmas tree lights.
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A lot of the dialogue is still cringeworthy, though sometimes it's the writers being British seventies Seth MacFarlane.
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How did I know you would think that?
You're half Zhodani? :coffeesip:
TL16+ for true artificial intelligence in Orac
TL20 for the matter transporter they use to get about
TL25 for the inertialess drive in the Liberator.
What about the weaponry?
One can't always have outstanding dialog like "ugly bags of mostly water."
alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die
Weaponry doesn't seem all that advanced. They had plasma bolts, but so did the Feds. High Guard plasma guns are TL 10-12. Assuming that they're actually fusion guns makes them TL 12-14.
They also had neutron blasters which required a flare shield to protect the crew. If they're just particle accelerators, that's TL 8-15.
I might have to look at GURPS Space for equivalents.
A Blake's Seven reboot would be interesting. Someone once told me that BBC shows never really get cancelled, they will return after a long hiatus.
And I find it remarkable that someone had all 52 episodes of the series - it turns out that a Dr. Who fan approached the BBC a few years back to inquire about purchasing all the old episodes. The BBC then discovered that the tapes they sent to the Archives were seldom saved, instead the tapes would be erased and reused. Only by contacting various tv networks around the world and checking to see if anyone had recorded those old episodes were they able to recover some of them - but in some cases, all they had left was the audio tracks.
If I remember correctly, the Liberator was made by a more advanced culture, so it outclassed the Federation ships.
And I find it remarkable that someone had all 52 episodes of the series - it turns out that a Dr. Who fan approached the BBC a few years back to inquire about purchasing all the old episodes. The BBC then discovered that the tapes they sent to the Archives were seldom saved, instead the tapes would be erased and reused. Only by contacting various tv networks around the world and checking to see if anyone had recorded those old episodes were they able to recover some of them - but in some cases, all they had left was the audio tracks.
If I remember correctly, the Liberator was made by a more advanced culture, so it outclassed the Federation ships.
Force Wall. TL 20 White Globe.
Fast FTL Communications. They sent a message to Servalan's HQ from the Galactic Rim.
The travel times seem logarithmic at times, in that they take only as long, or take as long, as the plot requires.
While the terminology in the dialogue was a little primitive by some standards today, their problems generally weren't solved through the judicious use of technobabble-derived solutions, but by simpler problem solving (the better sort seen in some ST series).
The real strength of the plot though was the conflict that happened within the group concurrently with that they faced from outside the group.
The best lines often seemed to have gone to Villa and Avon though, the others were all business.
Nothing special. Just a honking great particle accelerator.
The characters made Blake's 7. Orac got loads of good lines, and Servalan was a great villain.
One thing that didn't strike me when I first watched the series as a kid was the transposition of a "Federation" from the all-good paradise of the ST universe, into something far more akin to the Empire of SW.
One revelation that, that the head of the organised crime syndicate the Terra Nostra, was the head of the Federation, and a later episode where the characters (?!?) travelled to the source of the drug Shadow and found it guarded by elite Fed forces normally protecting the president, deepened the concept that this Federation was a long long way from Kirk's and Picard's.
Turning a cultural trope on its head appeals to me. Stories should introduce the unexpected.
One revelation that, that the head of the organised crime syndicate the Terra Nostra, was the head of the Federation, and a later episode where the characters (?!?) travelled to the source of the drug Shadow and found it guarded by elite Fed forces normally protecting the president, deepened the concept that this Federation was a long long way from Kirk's and Picard's.
Turning a cultural trope on its head appeals to me. Stories should introduce the unexpected.
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The highest TL which maps to traveller is the auto-repair systems. You can map that to the Eternity Circuit in T5 (Tech R/32) which is waaaaay above all the other tech.
The other one would be the power systems for which there is no equivilant match - the ships appeared to run off some sort of self regenerating battery ('power banks') which needed time to recharge. Upside is you don't have to worry about fuel, the down side being you could run out of power in the middle of battle if you got trigger happy, and be sieged (worn down by sustained attacks).
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