SEASON A


 

A1 THE WAY BACK


Roj Blake illegally goes outside the domed city on Earth to meet with former coleagues, whom he doesn't remember. Bran Foster tells Blake that he was a major resistence leader who was captured, reprogrammed and who renounced his old collaborators and testified against them.
  While attending a rebel meeting Blake escapes when the group is attacked and massacered by Federation troops. Blake is recaptured and put on trial for crimes against children. After a series of misadventures, his lawyer is murdered and Blake is found guilty. He is sentenced to the penal planet, Cygnus Alpha. Waiting to board the prision ship,London, Blake meets Jenna Stannis, a smuggler and Vila Restal, a Delta thief. As the ship departs Earth, Blake vows to return one day.
 

A2 Space Fall


While enroute to Cygnus Alpha, Blake organizes, with the help of some fellow prisioners,a rebellion on the prision ship. One of the convicts, Kerr Avon, is a computer genius, who brakes into the ships control room and temporarily takes out the system, allowing Blake and the others to escape from their quarters. Blake, Jenna and Avon barricade themselves in the control room but give up when Subcommander Raiker, a ships officer overpowers the other prisioners and starts to kill them.
  At the same time, the London stumbles upon a space battle between two alien fleets. One of the battleships drifts, unmanned toward the London and Leylan, the London's captain, sends a few a his crew over to investigate. Two men die and one goes insane. Raiker "volunteers" Blake, Jenna and Avon to find out the cause. Once on the ship, they are attacked by it's defenses, a mental onslaught aimed to disorientate and kill intruders. Due, probably to the Federation  manipulation of his mind, Blake is able to resist. He destroys the defense mechanism, saving Jenna and Avon. The trio manage to seal the outer hatches and escape with the ship named by Jenna, the "Liberator".
 

A3 CYGNUS ALPHA


Blake, Avon and Jenna explore the vast alien ship. They establish contact with the master computer ZEN,thus enabling them to fly the Liberator. They also discover a teleport system and hand guns of immense power.   Meanwhile the London has unloaded its' cargo of prisioners on Cygnus Alpha. The convicts are greeted by the priest and priestess who rule the planet. Blakes takes the Liberator to Cygnus Alpha, to attempt a rescue. Using the teleport Blake goes to the surface. Leaving Jenna and Avon on board, he asks to be recalled in four hours.   Blake finds the prisioners in holding cells all suffering from an illness which affects everyone who"s on Cygnus Alpha more than an hour. He is told that there's no cure apart from regular doses of a serum available only on the planet and controlled by the High Priest, Vargas. Blake tries and fails to release the convicts and is himself, captured. Vargas demands that Blake turn over the Liberator to him, so that he can spread his religion throughout the galaxy.   Meanwhile, Jenna and Avon have discovered rooms fulls of clothes and hoards of precious jewels and metals. Avon tries to convince Jenna that waiting for Blake is stupid. They should run with the vast wealth on board and leave Blake to his fate. However, Jenna decides to honor her word and gives Blake the full 4 hours before leaving. Almost out of time, Blake calls for telepot and Jenna brings up Blake, Gan, Villa and Vargas. After finding out that Vargas lied about the sickness, Blake teleports him into the vacuum of space. Federation pursuit ships converge on the Liberator and Blake and his new crew begin their escape.

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