History Recap / BlakesSevenS3E5TheHarvestOfKairos

* FantasticRacism: Jarvik sacrifices three Federation cruisers just to hide his real plan. He later says that the crews didn't count [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman because he only used mutoids]] (female [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul personality-wiped]] [[JustAMachine cyborgs]]).

* IdiotPlot: Servalan hears a lowly construction worker is badmouthing her. Instead of dispatching the secret police to rearrange his seditious brainwaves, she invites him to the control room to smirk at his opinion.

* CharacterDerailment: While Servalan is hardly averse to virile men (and may even enjoy some domination in the bedroom for all we know) she's always been ''very'' hostile to anyone who threatens her authority. The idea that she'd let Jarvik manhandle her or [[BigShutUp bluntly tell her to shut up]] in front of her staff, or hesitate to have Jarvik executed after YouHaveFailedMe, simply doesn't fit with what we've seen in the series.

* JustPlaneWrong: The spacecraft they salvage is an Apollo-era moonlander, apparently used by an early Earth expedition. But such a vehicle wouldn't be able to take off from any planet of Earth-like gravity, and it would leave the landing legs behind. RaganarokProofing is involved too -- even if Avon and Tarrant got the lander working, the fuel would be useless.

* JustPlaneWrong: The spacecraft they salvage is an Apollo-era moonlander, apparently used by an early Earth expedition. But such a vehicle wouldn't be able to take off from any planet of Earth-like gravity, and it would leave the landing legs behind.

* ItAmusedMe: Why Servalan sends down Jarvik to fight Tarrant and retrieve the teleport bracelets as a BattleTrophy (she can prevent Zen beaming them up by moving Liberator out of orbit, and there's no shortage of spare bracelets on the ship). However Avon quickly realises that Jarvik's presence means that the Liberator will blast them (all Servalan has to do is target the general area he beamed up from and obliterate it) so Servalan is likely being a ManipulativeBitch as usual.

* RatedMForManly: Jarvik is a throwback to when Men were Real Men and Women liked it[[note]]And creepy alien spider-monsters were actually terrifying, but you can't win them all[[/note]].

-->'''Tarrant:''' But there's nothing I can do with this...

* BrandishmentBluff: Avon creates a crude analogue version of the Sopron rock. When the Liberator scans the lander, Zen informs Servalan that it's an advanced cruiser just like the Liberator, only more powerful. Jarvik urges her to ignore this bluff, but Servalan doesn't want to take the risk and flees.

** The planet Avon retrieves his Sophron rock from requires breathing masks.

* BrandishmentBluff: Avon creates a crude analogue version of the Sophron rock. When the Liberator scans the lander, Zen informs Servalan that it's an advanced cruiser just like the Liberator, only more powerful. Jarvik urges her to ignore this bluff, but Servalan doesn't want to take the risk and flees.

* GreenRocks: Kairopan, which is a valuable red crystal of unrevealed purpose, and Sophron, which is a green-and-black mineral lifeform that protects itself by projecting itself as the [[ApeShallNotKillApe same species]], yet more powerful, than anything that scans it.

* ARareSentence: Avon smugly listens to Orac admit the Sophron is (by a 'marginal' degree) more rational that it is.

A former Federation officer called Jarvik boasts to Servalan that he can defeat the Liberator, whose crew are planning to steal a shipment of valuable crystals from the planet Kairos.

* {{Narm}}: Three words. Brian the Spider. Oh, you wanted a little more detail? The episode called for a terrible alien life-form that makes Kairos uninhabitable for most of the year. The special-effects department delivered a giant orange snail with legs, which wobbled oh-so-slowly towards our heroes as the otherwise scarily competent Dayna forgot how to use her own legs. (For this and other reasons, this episode is often seen as SoBadItsGood by fans.)

* IrrevocableOrder: Avon uses this to enforce a provision to their surrender.

* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo

* ActionGirl: After Jarvik beats Tarrant in hand-to-hand combat, Dayna takes him on rather than meekly surrender her transporter bracelet. She does a lot better, but eventually Jarvik uses his greater strength to knock her down and then teleports them both up to the Liberator.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jarvik rejects Dayna as a hostage when Tarrant calls him on it, also objects to her being shot purely for a KickTheDog.

* DeathFromAbove: Even though she's stranded our heroes on a DeathWorld, Servalan decides to [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure drop a few plasma bolts on top of them]].

* InsultToRocks: Avon thinks even the rock is [[SurroundedByIdiots smarter than his colleagues]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does Servalan submit to Jarvik because WomenPreferStrongMen, or is she just enjoying the [[CasualKink novelty of being dominated]] by another boy-toy that she'll discard as soon as his Alpha Male posturing ceases to amuse her? Did she go along with his plan in the first place because she just wanted a scapegoat if Tarrant escaped again?

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jarvik objects to Dayna getting shot as a KickTheDog.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jarvik rejects Dayna as a hostage when Tarrant calls him on it, also objects to her being shot purely for a KickTheDog,

* EvilGloating: Jarvik thinks it's unmanly to do this, but has no problem if Servalan wants to indulge herself.

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou

* TrojanHorse

* WomenPreferStrongMen: Presumably why Servalan puts up with Jarvik aggressively manhandling the President of the Terran Federation in her own control room.