Not very smart of Vila to reveal his fake drunk act to Dayna & Soolin, was it? The next time he tries to pull it, they'll know.

Amazing that the hull regenerator even repairs the seems that existed between the hull plates.

Explosion shakes ship, then report.

Orac says that the Federation has restarted building ships. What about the ship duplicators we saw in Moloch?

Why would the sensors record 10,000 frames a second?

Actually reviewing should start at explosion then work backward.

The resolution on the close-up was incredible.

Orac said that Plaxton was working for the Federation at the fall of the Federation, which happened just over 2 years ago. Between Star One & Aftermath. However, Plaxton joined the Space Rats 3 years earlier. (Maybe it just seemed longer to her?)

Soolin looks around, but doesn't seem to look behind her.

Plaxton asks that a shield be put up for testing, but then they test the drive in the same room???

If this drive is supposed to push ships through space, why are they testing it while it is setting on a table? Shouldn't the drive break the table? (For every action there is an opposite, but equal, reaction.)

Also how can Space Rat leader see how powerful the drive is when it is just sitting on a table being tested?

Why didn't the guy smell the hole being burned in the wall?

I guess Plaxton didn't care for her assistant as she leaves without him.

Music just as they are going onto ship is reminiscent of Star Trek.

Plaxton sure took her own sweet time making that last connection. Maybe if she had hurried up in the first place she might have had time to get to safety.

I see the Space Rats have been to the same furniture shop & got the same cream vinyl sofa as Kratnor in Gambit had installed in the casino bar, & the company who owns the Sandminer in the Dr Who story The Robots Death fit them in their commanders quarters. This was written by a certain Chris Boucher & Brian Croucher was in it.

Who did Brian Croucher play in this episode? (And don't say Travis' twin brother.;-)

I think Richard is referring to the fact that Brian Croucher was in 'The Robots of Death', rather than in this episode.

Something I didn't list before is what sort of weapon was fitted to the space chopper when it shot the 3 persuit ships? From what I can remember from other episode even the Liberator didn't seem to have weapons with this ammount of firepower.

Brian Croucher's character in The Robots of Death was called Borg(!). He was in the first two episodes and was on the receiving end of one of the Doctor's greatest ever put downs -"You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain." As for Stardrive, its hardly a classic episode but it gets a lot more stick than it deserves, there are some nice moments and the chase scene at the end is quite good fun, although I think I preferred it when I was 12 (the first time round) to more recent viewings.

Has this episode been edited? I'm sure I remember a line about "Space Rats are similar to Hell's Angels, except Hell's Angels had ethics, Space Rats do not!" from Orac.

Or was that only in the novelisation?

"Vector 370." Apparently circles in the future have more than our primitive 360 degrees.

Ever notice how many B7 episodes have a planet where the main building is just a door leading to an underground complex? This way, all they have to design and build is a door.

So they lose the greatest ship in existence, the fastest one ever known, and the only one with teleport. Then they get a new one, with teleport and, as of this episode, the fastest one. That's reeeaaaally convenient.

But not as convenient as the Space Rat destroying those Federation ships right in front of the stalled Scorpio. Space is pretty big. Really a great coincidence that they had a front row seat for that.

Everything Villa says about the Space Rats makes them sound very scary and intimidating. But they're so patehtically embarassing.

King Mob, that line's not on the DVD. I suspect it's from the novelisation.

KAM: Plaxton sure took her own sweet time making that last connection.

I think she knew. Avon's turning it on might have made part of it hum or whirl or flash a light or something.

That was the only good part about this story.