MM>Is Blake's 7 dead?  A local public TV station just started airing it
MM>this summer, and I don't know much about it.
        Blake's 7 was in production from 1978 to 1981 IIRC.  It has a
  fairly solid following especially among people who were Strek-Fen way
  back when that name for them was in vogue...
        I sometimes wonder if that isn't because Blake's 7 is dead
  seemingly beyond revival.  Much of the good old time Trek fan-fiction
  and such-likes was predicated on the idea that no one would ever
  contradict the conclusions in, for example, Kraith.
        When Trek proved that it was alive in the movies, it started to
  contradict long held fannish notions.
        When TNG premiered then Trek was once again totally out of the
  hands of the fans.  The leader of the first Trek Fan-Club I was ever a
  member of (USS Tradition, Los Angeles) wrote an extremely hostile
  editorial titled "Trek RIP" when TNG premiered and loudly quit
  Trek fandom.
        But she, like many others later discovered Blake's 7 and
  proclaimed it a Good Thing.  I believe there may be some Blake's 7
  fan-fic being produced, but darned if I can find any of it for THE
  UNIVERSE: TREK...
        Another thing that differentiates B7 from Trek is the story
  telling architechture.  PCs died in B7.  No one was sure who'd survive
  the season.  It allowed for more melodramatic and abusive stories
  involving the PCs.
        In the 1980's the BBC *hated* SF.  Starcops, Blake's 7, Dr. Who.
  Almost every british SF series that I know of was either cancelled or
  badly threatened during that time.  (Red Dwarf premiered in 1990
  AFAIK.)
        I have never had a chance to sit down and really dig into B7,
  but the couple of episodes that I saw were OK if you could look past
  the cheesy special effects (No challenge for an old Dr. Who fan like
  me...)
JPH>   Oog.
MM>It is basic copyright law -- nothing new here.
        Yeah, but to say anything else might imply that I am knowingly
 treading on it rather than unknowingly.
Jay P. Hailey 
Chief Editor
THE UNIVERSE: TREK
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