Avon calls for a screen magnification of Orac's prediction, but it looks more like the camera moves around & the background stars become visible rather than a magnification, where the ship would get larger.
This was the episode, not Breakdown, that had the ship's internal systems acting like a living thing.
Rather than ordering the crew to stay away from the teleport section, I would have expected Avon to have Vila & Gan, with weapons, keep an eye on the section.
Jenna says the computers have never turned on them before. I should think that refusing to work in Breakdown would qualify as turning on them.
When Gan disappears & Cally wonders if he teleported Blake points out that all the bracelets are still there, and a shot shows they are. Amazing considering how many they've lost. I guess the ship replicates new ones.
Dialogue indicates that Orac functions whether his key is on or off. I guess the key is only for interaction, not an on/off switch, as is usually indicated.
Spaceworld, can you say an early version of the Borg? The Alta's dress like Seven of Nine and one is deactivated (twice) by having a tube pulled.
If the Alta's are computer controlled, why do they have different hairstyles?
Also one of them has a much more emotional voice than the other.
I would be curious to see know how much time elapsed from the end of "Orac" to the start of this episode. It must be some time as Cally had a chance to stop off to get a trim at the Federation-free haircut planet whilst the rest of the crew went shopping and bought new clothes!
Oracs voice underwent a bit of an overhaul as well...
It was jolly decent of the Spaceworld folk to let the crew still get their cup of coffee from this ship which, otherwise, wanted to kill them. They must have REALLY wanted to keep them alive...and hyper so it seems...
During the breakout Gan attacks and kills several guards, his limiter must be having an off day. Even if he didn't kill them he still knocked them out which should also have sparked the limiter into action- he went into the battle with great gusto..
While on the subject of the breakout, does the prison area not have some kind of alarm if the door is opened? Even if, as Avon says, there are no bugging devices (which in itself is highly unusual), there are no guards or outside monitors? How can Villa, Gan and Cally all stroll around undetected??
Blake calls Avon whilst being attacked by the sparky wire thing and Avon, justifiably, wants to know what it is. Blake beats around the bush a little and forces Avon to come down there. If I was Avon I would have said "tell me what's going on or I'm not coming!!!".
After Zen comes back online he states fairly quickly that all systems have been repaired and function normally. There have been several large explosions of major components. In previous episodes the self-repair system has taken a lot longer to fix smaller problems.
The scanner shot of the Liberator taking off looks suspiciously like an airport runway....
For such an advanced race, the inside of Spaceworld looks remarkably drab- almost like a power station from late 20th century Earth...
All being said though, a fine way to open the season and good conclusion to that story arc. My only other gripe is I wish they featured Spaceworld a little more (although presumably it was destroyed so that may have kinda limited future appearances).
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During the breakout Gan attacks and kills several guards, his limiter must be having an off day.
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Considering he was potentially sacrificing himself to allow the rest to escape, the limiter might be set up so that it either only kicks in if certain physiological reactions occur.
Alternatively, they may have got Orac to talk to it enough to give Gan more freedom when we weren't looking, or the surgeon in Breakdown didn't quite do the job right. He only had problems with it there and in Time Squad, and never again.