@kurtsh@mastodon.socialBattlestar Galactica is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi TV series ever, along with:
▫️Twilight Zone
▫️Firefly
▫️Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
▫️Mr. Robot
▫️The Expanse
▫️Star Wars: Andor
▫️Fallout
▶️ The Controversy of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003)
https://youtub…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 08 - Games
VILA: [V.O.] Belkov's living quarters.
TARRANT: We'll be right there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/409 B7B2
@UP8@mastodon.socialFourth Power’s sci-fi thermal batteries could be cheaper than pricey natural gas power plants
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/fourth-powers-sci-fi-thermal-batteries-could-be-cheaper-than-pricey-natural-gas-powe…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished "Automatic Noodle" by Annalee Newitz, a novella comfortably ensconced in the "cozy sci-fi" category. Becky Chambers fan? This one is probably a pretty safe bet!
A group of food service robots facing an uncertain future in the aftermath of a war decides to give it a go in their own restaurant. Only they aren't technically able to own one and they face some adversity that requires them to pull together.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: Yes.
BLAKE: These are mine. You will hand over all your weapons to my men. Whilst we hold the computer, the ship is helpless. It will remain that way until you agree. You will then fly this ship to the nearest habitable planet where the prisoners will disembark. Any attempt by your men to break into this room and we'll destroy the computer. Totally. That's all.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineSeems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza@… draw for me A surreal concept art of a human brain transforming into a digital archive, with neural pathways turning into glowing fiber-optic cables, and tiny floating folders and documents orbiting around it, vibrant colors, sci-fi style, hyper-realistic.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: What for? They could take us out quite easily with their technology.
TARRANT: Damn their technology. Is that all you care about? What about Cally? How did she come to be here? Why are they holding her?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/249 B7B3…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@chpietsch@fedifreu.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOverall the media consolidation described below is beyond four alarm fire levels.
E. Musk is dangerous to society, but Musk acts like an addled kid who read too much bad Sci-fi. Ellison doesn't have those positive qualities - he is much like the killer car, Christine, in the Steven King novel.
My first experience with Ellison's Oracle was back around 1980 or '81 when Oracle people came to our company and more than asked, they ordered us, to make sure that their produ…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
CALLY: Jenna's gone with Blake.
AVON: So let's get on with it. [Explosion. Avon is unconscious]
CALLY: He's out cold. We must get him into a capsule fast. And then you can put Orac in with him. Come on, quick!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/14
@light@noc.socialhttps://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fringe
There should be Great Ice Ball exploration sci-fi.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineAI enhanced psychosis is not a great thing.
AI Psychosis sounds like a sci-fi problem, but it is real, and present tense.
Turns out AIs like ChatGPT, and their propensity to lie and their lack of actual intelligence, comes with costs.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/tech/ai-spa
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: Obviously not.
BLAKE: I hope we got that through to him in time.
[A-line room]
AVON: Keep an eye on the corridor.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/537 B7B3
@compfu@mograph.socialWatched "Mars Express" for the second time because I noticed that I had bought it last year on Prime. I liked it just as much as the first time I saw it.
It has a nice "Ghost in the Shell" vibe going on but it's less philosophical. It makes up for it with great animation and smooth camera moves as well as lots of imaginative sci-fi tech. An exceptional non-Japanese gem in the animated sci-fi genre!
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
TRAVIS: Ohh?
SERVALAN: Oh, so far I have resisted that pressure. But now, I need your reassurance that my confidence has not been misplaced.
TRAVIS: I think Project Avalon will silence the critics.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/174 B7B4…
@UP8@mastodon.social😱 Sci-fi Meets Eldritch Horror in Deck Builder Chaos Zero Nightmare
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2025/tokyo-game-show/sci-fi-meets-eldritch-horror-in-deck-builder-chaos-zero-nightmare/.2…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
AVON: Too close. Another few seconds we'd have all been blown up.
VILA: Well, it wasn't my fault.
AVON: Well, whose fault was it? I thought you were supposed to guard the corridor.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/116 B7B3
@alexanderadam@ruby.socialI can't believe that this is what we came to.
Did any of the sci-fi authors anticipate what we arrived to?
#claude_code #claude4 #llm
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deOur #prediction series is announced, Mattering Press 2025 👋.
There is power in prediction. In the first volume of the Predictions series, a set of #sts authors makes a case for engaging with practices and cultures of prediction. From speculative ethnography to sci-fi.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI have to say, I really feel for the folks at Apple who have to keep churning out large-scale look-and-feel changes to differentiate every new version of the OS. It’s hard to constantly generate visibly new stuff when you already did a good job many versions ago, hard not to succumb to the temptation to make your product look like one of those UIs from a sci-fi movie that UI experts use in class as a case study in things that are cool-looking but actually a bad idea.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 02 - Power
TARRANT: Let's go.
[Hillside. Avon runs along.]
[Corridor near door of landing silo. Vila finishes using the lance while still holding the timer and turns to face the others.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/476 B7B3
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euArriving at Act I, The Alters is quite engaging. It's a video game, in case you are reaching for your favourite search engine. So far, the sci-fi aspect has that structured feeling of the Eastern European/Soviet branch of the genre, mixed up with the post-Soviet era shift of values and cultural trends -- still kind of bland, but looking at the Western guilty thrill of the dystopian. It's a damn good, well-made game. I hope it holds up in that way until the end.
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeIf you're looking for a fun, good book to read, I've got one for you. I especially recommend it if you like sci-fi, classic pulp/movie monsters, and AI interacting with confusing humans. Add in queer themes of found family, self-identity, and acceptance, and it's a real winner.
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 08 - Games
AVON: Who does?
SLAVE: I fear I am unable to identify them Master. I regret this failure most bitterly.
AVON: Orac?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/117…
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineI can't overestimate the impact this song had on me when I heard it. I was 12, obsessed with sci-fi and these weirdos pop up in the most boring, normalized italian music show (Sanremo) to play a kind of music I had never heard before (and rarely after).
Still sublime after all these years.
https://youtu.be/aexf…
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.mtrl-sci. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.mtrl-sci/new
[1/1]:
- Unsupervised Atomic Data Mining via Multi-Kernel Graph Autoencoders for Machine Learning Force Fi...
Hong Sun, Joshua A. Vita, Amit Samanta, Vincenzo Lordi
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 05 - The Web
JENNA: [Joins Blake. Cally moves to the console and begins altering settings] Navigation computers can't cope with a change of course. We're running blind.
CALLY: [Gan enters stealthily from other passageway]. Don't move.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/77
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 04 - Horizon
[Teleport section]
AVON: [Snapping on a bracelet] What do these detectors look like?
ORAC: Logic would suggest they are camouflaged - in plants.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/536 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
P.A.: [V.O.] Security clear on cell unit M-three for Justice Department access.
VARON: I'm Tel Varon, Justice Department. I've been assigned to defend you.
BLAKE: I don't need a defence. I'm going to plead guilty.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/157
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net @tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Low Orbit" by Kazimir Lee.
It's an excellent graphic novel about a queer Malaysian immigrant kid in small-town Maine, the unexpected friends she makes, and the science fiction author who happens to be her landlord. It reminded me a bit of the also excellent "Navigating With You" because of its interwoven fictional sci-fi novel (with really good writing!). CW as predictable for queer family trauma, although it doesn't get too bad and has a happy ending.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
DAYNA: What Kairopan? I haven't got any.
JARVIK: You must have touched some. It can smell it on you. Don't tell me you threw it away.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/534 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
SHAD: Get hold of Command.
DASTOR: [On screen] Command. Yes?
SHAD: It's the harvest, sir. It's been good. Very good.
DASTOR: [On screen] And?
SHAD: Well, we're loaded and ready for lift-off, but, er...
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/201
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
[Ultra 2 Negative response.]
ULTRA 1: Operate primary fail-safe terminals.
ULTRA 3: Confirmed.
[Tarrant retrieves the memory tubes and leaves the control room.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/592 B7B6
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 05 - The Web
JENNA: Look.
[Main viewscreen shows the web dissolving.]
GAN: He did it. We're free.
JENNA: Not yet.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/503 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
VILA: [All "drunk mannerisms" vanishing instantly] Drunk? Who's drunk?
DAYNA: You are.
VILA: Show me how to get drunk on plain water and I won't waste time.
DAYNA: Well, then why pretend?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/72…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 02 - Power
GUNN SAR: All right, woman, you just made a very big mistake.
[Corridor in Hommik dwelling. Kate grabs Nina, covering her mouth. She lets go when they recognize each other.]
KATE: Nina!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/414 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 09 - Sand
TARRANT: No?
SERVALAN: [Pulls the end of his gun to her forehead] At a distance of one inch, the shot should be even more efficient.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/165 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: What are you staring at?
VILA: I'm not staring.
KERRIL: We've been on the move a lot.
VILA: Yes.
KERRIL: It's the first chance I've had to, well, get cleaned up.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: The way we're using power, it'll be sooner.
CALLY: What will happen to the ship?
AVON: The forces inside that will not merely destroy us, they will annihilate us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/310 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 02 - Power
PELLA: [Having entered unnoticed] Yes, Avon, why?
AVON: I didn't.
PELLA: Your finger was on the trigger. YOU killed him.
AVON: I didn't, Pella. But YOU did, didn't you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/392 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 10 - Gold
AVON: But I shouldn't imagine it's much use to you now. You'll just have to confess and pay up.
TARRANT: [Into comm.] We're ready, Vila.
KEILLER: Avon, what about me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/406 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 09 - Sand
DAYNA: Oh, I trust you, Avon.
AVON: I must be slipping.
SLAVE: Yes indeed, I think I must be too, Master.
AVON: What?
SLAVE: Er, slipping, Master.
AVON: Soolin, take over.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/78 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
TRAVIS: [To mutoids] Get after them!
SERVALAN: [Slaps Travis] You hesitated. My life was at risk and you hesitated. [Tries slapping him again, but he catches her hand]
[Blake and crew hurry through the red corridors.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/527
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 05 - The Web
NOVARA: Flutonic power cells. As you can see from the registers one of them is totally exhausted. The other almost so.
BLAKE: And you have no means of recharging them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/349 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: It begins to look that way. [Pauses]
SERVALAN: What's the matter?
TRAVIS: Maryatt.
SERVALAN: What about him?
TRAVIS: His disappearance - there may be questions.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/271 B7B6
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [V.O.] Right.
AVON: Orac, have you obtained any further information on the planet Horizon?
ORAC: No.
AVON: Why not?
ORAC: Is that a serious question?
AVON: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/406 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: Wait a minute, Orac-
ORAC: Disconnect. [The glasses tumble off the tray which begins to swoop around in the air.]
DAYNA: I don't believe that.
VILA: Try and convince me, will you? Please?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/228 …
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
JARVIK: You don't think they have enough problems as it is?
SERVALAN: Oh, I'm sure they have. You may take a small party with you to make the numbers equal.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/477 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 11 - Bounty
VILA: Nobody could open it.
AVON: I thought you could open anything, that's always been one of your more modest claims.
VILA: I could open that door in two minutes.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/400 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netA05 - The Web
SAYMON: None. If our life support should fail, they would simply wither away. Thanks to you and your energy cells that will not occur.
BLAKE: So that all I have spoken to them about, all they have told me, that was you talking not them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/440…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: The service history of that ship you've got in the landing bay. I sent you a warning about it earlier.
BELLFRIAR: Where did this come from?
BLAKE: Central Registry.
BELLFRIAR: Seven hundred years old?
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
DEETA: What do you think?
MAX: It's all been according to the rules.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/161 B7B1
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Check the outer hatch in case someone decides to try and join us.
RAIKER: I want a boarding crew kitted out and ready to follow me over.
[Technician nods.]
[Switch to Blake, trying to push/pull the hatch closed.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/651
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: ...concept.
BLAKE: Damn.
AVON: We're going to have to turn back. Jenna, stand by to reverse the course.
JENNA: Look, we've set out to save Gan and that's what we're going to do.
AVON: But you don't understand.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/204
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 01 - Redemption
CALLY: Treatment unit. He tried to reconnect one of the servo links and it burned his hand.
BLAKE: Right, sit down. [All but Vila sit at a small table to the left of flight consoles] No one is to attempt to repair any equipment till the computers are back under our control.
https://blake.torpi…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
SULA: Then stop talking like a fool. Do you seriously imagine I have any personal regard for that woman? Doesn't it occur to you that I might hate her more than any of you precisely because I do know her?
HOB: So let's cut her throat and be done with it.
https://blake.torpidity.n…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: What's happened?
BELLFRIAR: Well, it's standard drill with a space death. The autopsy's carried out in a sealed mortuary in case there are any alien micro-organisms around. Are you all set, Dr. Wiler?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/286
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: You really think things through, don't you, Avon? If we do need it, we won't have time to get it.
AVON: Well then, let's hope we don't need it. [Smiles]
[Scene: Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/84 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Spread out and find the armoury. Jenna?
JENNA: What?
BLAKE: Let's find the computer room.
[Switch to Raiker and Artix]
RAIKER: All the doors are open!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/316 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: [Enters] You all right?
DORIAN: How many more of you are there?
AVON: [Enters, weapon levelled at Dorian] Just one. Stand still. Drop the gun. Now move away from it. Slowly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/114 B7B6
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: Confirmed.
[Teleport room. All but Avon are present. Avon enters.]
AVON: You can take the watch now, Vila.
VILA: Wonderful. I've been looking forward to that.
TARRANT: Where are we going, Avon?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/86
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
TARRANT: It was an even bet.
AVON: Quite.
TARRANT: I still don't know who the girl is, though.
AVON: Her name is Dayna, she's not one of us. Where is she, by the way?
TARRANT: Do you care?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/352 …
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: It's all right, Vila. I think we've lost them.
VILA: How'd you know?
BLAKE: We're still here. Cut the auxiliaries. Get back to primary drive. [To Avon] Are you all right?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/124 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: Right, wake me when you're tired.
[Up a different tree: Travis and Mutoid]
TRAVIS: Tell me something, do you remember who you were?
MUTOID: I don't understand the question, Commander.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/375 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 13 - Terminal
TARRANT: Avon, where is the ship headed?
AVON: To tell you the truth, I haven't the faintest idea.
[Flight deck. Tarrant, Vila, Dayna, Cally enter.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/94 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
VILA: Why didn't you suggest it to us?
CALLY: Because I knew how you'd react.
AVON: Auron may be different, Cally, but on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
ZEN: Main detectors report Federation pursuit ship, bearing one three two, course two seven six, leaving the planet and entering orbit.
AVON: Put it on the main screen.
ZEN: Affirmative. [pursuit ship appears on screen]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/31…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: And we thought we were tired before.
VILA: I'll tell you this, though: it beats work.
[End of episode. Roll credits.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/667 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netC07 - Children of Auron
DERAL: [Talks over Servalan. Then thinks better of it.] You'll get your or-
SERVALAN: Yes. With full quarantine precautions. Say we're afraid of cross infection. Under the circumstances, they shouldn't find that hard to believe.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/204
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: All right, put us down.
[Scene: The planet's surface. Blake and Cally land near the obelisk.]
BLAKE: Some sort of obelisk, I suppose.
CALLY: Well, what should we do now?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/170 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 13 - Blake
BLAKE: Chalk up another one to law and order.
DEVA: Smuggler, do you think?
BLAKE: Something like that. Do you know it's getting so you can't make a dishonest living on this planet anymore?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/247 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 11 - Orbit
AVON: Orac mark two. Just a replica I made a few months back. Contingency planning, Vila, and the contingency arose.
VILA: But the thing worked!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/372 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Don't tell me you agree with Gan.
AVON: No, no, no, I'm just...interested. It seems to me that we have identified the source of that threat rather easily.
BLAKE: So why haven't they?
AVON: Exactly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/405
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
VILA: Um, welcome aboard.
DERAL: Sit down. [points gun at Vila]
VILA: Over here? [sits at teleport console]
DERAL: Mnn hmm.
DAYNA: [Enters with gun on Deral] Keep still! [takes his gun]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/453 B7B…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 04 - Horizon
[Teleport section. Avon is seated at the console]
BLAKE: Have you got the coordinates yet?
AVON: It takes time.
BLAKE: There may not BE much time.
AVON: Then stop distracting me.
[Rack room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/602 B7B2…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: That's the north shore.
MELLANBY: Nothing there. Try the west. Nothing there either.
DAYNA: [Enters] What's happening, father?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/264 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 03 - Volcano
ZEN: That information is not available.
VILA: Very helpful.
CALLY: Avon, those Federation assessment teams were always followed up by invasion and colonization.
AVON: Usually.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/60 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: About two billion tons, I would say.
TARRANT: Range one hundred thousand and closing.
DAYNA: Well, then I say the whole scheme's crazy.
AVON: Why?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/9 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 02 - Shadow
JENNA: Destroy rather than dump, surely.
BEK: I'll do it. [Rises]
AVON: It isn't necessary.
BLAKE: Will it work?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/618 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: It was Maryatt.
SERVALAN: Does it matter?
TRAVIS: No... No. Only Blake matters now.
SERVALAN: And Orac.
TRAVIS: Right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/281…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: It knows too much about me. [Scene shifts to the computer room, where Avon and Dayna, hands bound, are being interrogated by Grose and Lector. Two stormtroopers are at the back of the room.]
GROSE: [O.O.V.] It isn't the information we want, as such. It's the fun of extracting it. We can be very crude like that, can't we, Lector?
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: What?
CALLY: I don't believe it.
MOLOK: Show me the ship; I must learn about it.
CALLY: You're a crimo, aren't you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/582 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: Well, that's impossible, Zen. Even if someone had teleport facility, there's nothing and nowhere they could have come from, is there?
ZEN: There is an intruder aboard.
DAYNA: Well, how? And where? Zen?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/241…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Relax. Your problems are over. [Draws a hand gun. Scene - Planet Terminal. Exterior. Avon is crouched next to Tarrant. Tarrant sits drinking from a canteen.]
AVON: Pass out again and I'll leave you, Tarrant.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/105
