One of the things that made Blakes 7 different from Star Trek, was that it was anti-establishment. Blake was a freedom-fighter (or terrorist depending on your viewpoint), who went around the galaxy in a destroying military targets. The spaceship was stolen, and his crew were all self-confessed criminals. It also featured a couple of neat computers: Zen - who spoke like a BBC newsreader, and tended to only tell the crew what they _needed_ to know. Orac - who was a sort of cross between a virus and a hacker. His inventor designed a standard component used in all computers, Orac exploited a weakness in this componant and was thus able to access any computer anywhere. If I recall most of the first series was written by Terry Nation, the inventor of the Daleks, which may account for the character of the series. Tim. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Tim Panton, Westhawk Ltd. Phone: +44 244 314800 | |Email: [log in to unmask] | |Paper: Westhawk Ltd. Archway House, Station Road, Chester. CH1 3DW. UK | | "I hated picking cotton." - Tina Turner | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+