Deliverance
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Blake 7: Season One: Deliverance
The Liberator arrives at the planet Cephlon just as a spaceship crashes onto the planets surface. Avon, Jenna, Vila and Gan teleport down to look for survivors, despite the high abundance on radiation on the planets surface. Of the two members of the crew, one is dead, but the other, called Ensor, is alive, however badly injured. He is teleported back to Liberator.
Meanwhile, Jenna is captured by a group of primitives living on the planet. Whilst Avon, Vila and Gan search for her, they discover the remains of a civilisation. Avon approches a priestess there, and she believes him to be a lord, sent by the gods. The Liberator crew discover that the remains hide a spaceship, which the people on the planet have forgotten how to operate. The rocket contains the genetic banks of the civilisation, and on launch will find a suitable planet to release the banks.
Meanwhile, on the Liberator, Ensor has recovered enough to hold Cally at gunpoint, and order Blake to take Liberator to the planet Aristo. Apparently, Ensors father is dying, and Ensor has to travel to Aristo to collect something called 'Orac'. The Federation had got wind of this, and had engineered the accident which caused Ensors ship to crash on Cephlon so that they could get Orac for themselves. Since the ship has crashed, Servalan and Travis have left for Aristo to get Orac for themselves.
Back on Cephlon, Avon, Vila and Gan manage to rescue Jenna, and Avon is able to work out how to launch the rocket. On the Liberator, Ensor is getting weak and collapses. Blake is able to return the Liberator to Cephlon, and rescue the crew. However, he is intrigued by the mysterious 'Orac' and heads to Aristo himself to find more.
By Keith Alan Morgan on Sunday, April 09, 2000 - 9:28 am:

Cephlon looks like a gas giant, not a habitable planet.

If I heard correctly, Zen says the speed of the Space Master is "4 by 6". Huh? I believe in either Space Fall or Cygnus Alpha, when asked what speed they want to travel, Blake says standard by something, not knowing how fast the ship can really go he used the term standard as a base, and usually speed references are standard by some number. However, 4 by 6, if that is what was said, makes no sense whatsoever.

We see part of the little ship explode, but later when it's spinning around, there is no sign of damage.

The gravity of the planet is 2.5 G, two & a half times normal gravity, but Avon, Gan, Vila & Jenna have no trouble walking around.

Jenna describes the life capsules as "bullet-shaped", but in other episodes, when talking about guns they usually say they fire projectiles, not bullets. (Actually, the life capsules looked more like ribbed condoms, anyway.)

Since Gan takes the doctors ID how is anyone else supposed to identify his body if they ever come to this planet?

Why isn't Cally listening to this music at the teleport controls?

Did she get a copy of this music from Sarkoff in Bounty?

If the Liberator had stasis units, they could have stuck Ensor in one until they found a doctor.

Apparently slavery must be restablished sometime between now and then as the family of a deserter can be put into slavery.

The natives hurling rocks at Avon & co. reminded me of the primitives in Star Trek's Galileo Seven.

Meegat says, "All things are known to you.", but earlier she had to tell Avon where the scavenger's camp was.

The voices we hear from the computers sound more like what you would hear humans in mission control saying, rather than computer readouts.

In a 2.5 G environment, Avon jumps up & kicks a larger opponent, who is running at Avon, and knocks him backwards. Yeah, right.

So who's going to raise the fertilized cells to adulthood and teach them to build a new society? I see a lot of starving children on that planet in 500 years.

By Scott McClenny on Sunday, February 04, 2001 - 1:03 pm:

The Primitives don't seem to have very hard skulls
or backs as it takes only one swing by Avon to
fall the one guarding Jenna.
Why do the Primitives stop dead when the door
is still opened?It seems to me that at least one
of them could have gotten in the length of time
it took to close the door again.

By Mandy on Monday, October 07, 2002 - 5:59 am:

I thought they said the planet's gravity was 1.25g.

"Lord Avon." Bet Vila ribbed him about that for weeks. I have to admit though, I thought Avon handled his godhood pretty well.

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