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* TheQuincyPunk: Space Rats, a gang of far-future outlaw bikers InSpace who dress in leather and have gigantic mohawks, but match the costume and hair with Roy Wood-style glam-rock face paint.
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* TheQuincyPunk: Space Rats, a gang of far-future outlaw bikers InSpace who dress in leather and have gigantic mohawks, but match the costume and hair with Roy Wood-style [[MakeUpIsEvil glam-rock face paint.paint]].
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* HelpImStuck: Villa gets stuck between a couple of rocks and struggles to free himself before a Space Rat patrol spots him.
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* FakeShemp: 'Dr Plaxton' wears a ridiculously huge hooded cloak during the chase scene.
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* FakeShemp: 'Dr Plaxton' wears a ridiculously huge hooded cloak BlackCloak during the chase scene.
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Played with; Scorpio gets a new spacedrive that enables them to outrun Federation ships, but loses another scientist who could have helped the rebels change the balance of power.
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Avon damages ''Scorpio'' during a reckless plan to infiltrate a Federation planet. While making repairs, they witness a passing Federation patrol destroyed by a one-man spacecraft moving too fast to see. Avon is determined to get his hands on this new technology regardless of the risk, which is considerable as the stardrive is being used by a gang of psychotic space punks.
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* VisionaryVillain: The Space Rats just want ships that can go faster. Altan however has visions of [[SpacePirates holding the trade lanes to ransom.]]
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* VisionaryVillain: The Space Rats just want [[NeedForSpeed ships that can go faster.faster]]. Altan however has visions of [[SpacePirates holding the trade lanes to ransom.]]
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* FragileSpeedster: The choppers used by the Space Rats. Scorpio is still just a freighter, but now it's the fastest one in the galaxy.
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* FragileSpeedster: The choppers used by the Space Rats. Scorpio ''Scorpio'' is still just a freighter, but now it's the fastest one in the galaxy.
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* BadBoss: Avon decides WeNeedADistraction, so he sends down Dayna and Villa to get captured, not warning them the CCTV cameras are scattered everywhere and still operational.
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** Avon and Tarrant send their colleagues into a trap which could easily have got them killed, given that the Space Rats are known psychotics.
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** Avon decides WeNeedADistraction, so he sends down Dayna and Tarrant send their colleagues into a trap which Villa to get captured, not warning them that working surveillance cameras are scattered everywhere. This could easily have got them killed, killed given that the Space Rats are known psychotics.psychotics, were it not for Dayna's quick thinking (pretending to Altan that she knew Dr Plaxton).
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* StealthInSpace: Avon intends to get past the detection system by hugging close to an asteroid, which any starship would steer clear of. They get too close and damage Scorpio. By the end of the episode however, they've got a stardrive that makes them so fast that stealth is irrelevant.
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* StealthInSpace: Avon intends to get past the to a planet without detection system by hugging close to an asteroid, which any starship would steer clear of. They get too close and damage Scorpio. By the end of the episode however, they've got a stardrive that makes them so fast that stealth is irrelevant.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Orac is its usual annoying self, forcing the crew to [[RewindReplayRepeat check the footage frame by frame]] to discover what's obvious to the supercomputer, but not to their Mark One Eyeball.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: WithFriendsLikeThese:
** Orac is its usual annoying self, forcing the crew to [[RewindReplayRepeat check the footage frame by frame]] to discover what's obvious to the supercomputer, but not to their Mark OneEyeball.Eyeball.
** Avon and Tarrant send their colleagues into a trap which could easily have got them killed, given that the Space Rats are known psychotics.
** Orac is its usual annoying self, forcing the crew to [[RewindReplayRepeat check the footage frame by frame]] to discover what's obvious to the supercomputer, but not to their Mark One
** Avon and Tarrant send their colleagues into a trap which could easily have got them killed, given that the Space Rats are known psychotics.
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* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyesMyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Villa gets drunk and start rambling on about this trope. One of the life events he relates gives Avon and Tarrant a EurekaMoment on how to repair the ship. After they've left the bridge, Villa reveals he was only PlayingDrunk so he could suggest a solution without being 'volunteered' to carry it out.
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Avon damages ''Scorpio'' during a reckless plan to infiltrate a Federation planet. While making repairs, they witness a passing Federation patrol destroyed by a one-man spacecraft moving too fast to see. Avon is determined to get his hands on this new stardrive technology regardless of the risk, which is considerable as the stardrive is being used by a gang of psychotic space punks.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Presumably this is the 'ancient Earth sect' the Space Rats are descended from.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Presumably this is the 'ancient '[[FutureImperfect ancient Earth sect' sect]]' the Space Rats are descended from.
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* BBCQuarry: Caspar is a dull windswept s**thole without a friendly ghost in sight.
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* BBCQuarry: Caspar is a dull dirty windswept s**thole without a friendly ghost in sight.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Avon tells the crew to start recording the Federation patrol right before they blow up. Still, it's shown that they do gather important intelligence about their adversary, even before finding out what destroyed them.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Avon tells the crew to start recording the Federation patrol right before they blow up. Still, Still it's shown that they do gather important intelligence about their adversary, even before finding out what destroyed them.them, so he at least has a plausible reason for doing so.
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* EnhanceButton: The space chopper is moving at Standard by 12.6, yet the resolution is still high enough to zoom in on the Space Rat insignia on the pilot's helmet.
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* EnhanceButton: The space chopper is moving at Standard by x 12.6, yet the resolution is still high enough to zoom in on the Space Rat insignia on the pilot's helmet.
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* TemptingFate: Villa ''keeps doing this!'' The space rat patrol hasn't seen them - turns out they're being watched by a CCTV camera. Villa declares it's an antique that probably hasn't worked in ages; GilliganCut to them being [[SinisterSurveillance watched on a monitor]]. "At least we have the element of surprise!" Cue space rat watching them through binoculars.
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* TemptingFate: Villa ''keeps doing this!'' The space rat Space Rat patrol hasn't seen them - turns out they're being watched by a CCTV camera. Villa declares it's an antique that probably hasn't worked in ages; GilliganCut to them being [[SinisterSurveillance watched on a monitor]]. "At least we have the element of surprise!" Cue space rat Space Rat watching them through binoculars.
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** Avon comes up with the kind of plan that would come off without a hitch in any other space opera, only for Scorpio to crash into the asteroid.
** Villa beams down to a planet and gets jammed between rocks in the usual quarry.
** Villa beams down to a planet and gets jammed between rocks in the usual quarry.
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** Avon comes up with the kind of a crazy-enough-to-work plan that would come off without a hitch in any other space opera, only for Scorpio to crash into the asteroid.
asteroid before they get anywhere near their target.
** Villa beams down to aplanet BBCQuarry and gets jammed between rocks in the usual quarry.rocks.
** Villa beams down to a
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* ReluctantMadScientist: Dr Plaxton apparently made an alliance with the Space Rats to get (steal) raw material to continue her research after the Federation collapsed. Three years later she's starting to regret this decision. As Orac notes, the reconstituted Federation has started a building program to replace its fleet, so she'd have all the resources she needed if only she'd stayed at home.
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* ReluctantMadScientist: Dr Plaxton apparently made an alliance with the Space Rats to get (steal) raw material to continue her research after the Federation collapsed. Three years later she's starting to regret this decision. teaming up with a gang of psychotic thugs. As Orac notes, the reconstituted Federation has started a building program to replace its fleet, so she'd have all the resources she needed if only she'd stayed at home.
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** Dr Plaxton could have been used to build more Stardrives, if they could just find someone to build them, but she's killed off at the end of the episode.
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** Dr Plaxton could have been used to build more Stardrives, if they could just find someone to build manufacture them, but she's killed off at the end of the episode.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted; Dr Plaxton points out that while she has the raw materials to build a prototype, she's not an engineer and can't build large numbers of Photonic Drives on command.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Scorpio now has all the advantages that the Liberator did -- a superintelligent talking computer, a teleport system, and now an FTL drive faster than anything the Federation has.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: StatusQuoIsGod:
** Scorpio now has all the advantages that the Liberator did -- a superintelligent talking computer, a teleport system, and now an FTL drive faster than anything the Federationhas.has.
** Dr Plaxton could have been used to build more Stardrives, if they could just find someone to build them, but she's killed off at the end of the episode.
** Scorpio now has all the advantages that the Liberator did -- a superintelligent talking computer, a teleport system, and now an FTL drive faster than anything the Federation
** Dr Plaxton could have been used to build more Stardrives, if they could just find someone to build them, but she's killed off at the end of the episode.
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* HyperspeedAmbush: We get an idea how effective this trope would be from the perspective of someone standing still.
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* AsYouKnow: Avon explains his loony plan and the reason for it in SarcasmMode, given that ''[[WhatTheHellHero everyone]]'' is trying to talk him out of it.
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* AsYouKnow: Avon explains reiterates his loony plan and the reason for it in SarcasmMode, given that ''[[WhatTheHellHero everyone]]'' is trying to talk him out of it.
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Avon damages ''Scorpio'' during a reckless plan to infiltrate a Federation planet. During While making repairs, they witness a passing Federation patrol is destroyed by a one-man spacecraft moving too fast to see. Avon is determined to get his hands on this new stardrive regardless of the risk, which is considerable as the stardrive is being used by a gang of psychotic space punks.
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Avon damages Scorpio's drive unit during a reckless plan to infiltrate a Federation planet. During repairs, a passing Federation patrol is destroyed by a one-man spacecraft moving too fast to see. Avon is determined to get his hands on this new stardrive regardless of the risk, which is considerable as the stardrive is being used by a gang of psychotic space punks.
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Avon damages Scorpio's drive unit ''Scorpio'' during a reckless plan to infiltrate a Federation planet. During repairs, a passing Federation patrol is destroyed by a one-man spacecraft moving too fast to see. Avon is determined to get his hands on this new stardrive regardless of the risk, which is considerable as the stardrive is being used by a gang of psychotic space punks.
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Avon damages Scorpio's drive unit during a reckless plan to infiltrate a Federation planet. During repairs, a passing Federation patrol is destroyed by a one-man spacecraft moving too fast to see. Avon is determined to get his hands on this new stardrive regardless of the risk, which is considerable as the stardrive is being used by a gang of psychotic space punks.
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* ColdEquation: With a plasma bolt homing in on them, Avon sets the Stardrive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, killing her in the process.
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* ColdEquation: With a plasma bolt homing in on them, seconds from impact, Avon sets the Stardrive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, saving their lives with a HyperspeedEscape but killing her in the process.
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* BlatantLies: Avon tells Dayna and Villa they can't beam them out as the teleporter isn't working. We then see Avon, who's actually down on the planet's surface with Soolin and Tarrant.
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* BlatantLies: BlatantLies:
** Avon tells Dayna and Villa they can't beam them out as the teleporter isn't working. We then see Avon, who's actually down on the planet's surface with Soolin andTarrant.Tarrant.
** Earlier Avon orders Soolin to sober up Villa. You can hear the smirk in her voice when Soolin says she'll try (Villa has already revealed that he faked the whole thing).
** Avon tells Dayna and Villa they can't beam them out as the teleporter isn't working. We then see Avon, who's actually down on the planet's surface with Soolin and
** Earlier Avon orders Soolin to sober up Villa. You can hear the smirk in her voice when Soolin says she'll try (Villa has already revealed that he faked the whole thing).
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* PlayingDrunk: Villa's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
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* PlayingDrunk: Villa's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.CrowningMomentOfAwesome; he pretends to be drunk so he can make a suggestion on how to fix the current problem (atmosphere leaking out of a hole in the hull) in the form of a rambling remeniscence, but not be called on to undertake the repair himself (because you couldn't give such a dangerous task to someone who was obviously drunk).
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* ColdEquation: With a missile homing in on them, Avon sets the Stardrive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, killing her in the process.
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* ColdEquation: With a missile plasma bolt homing in on them, Avon sets the Stardrive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, killing her in the process.
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* AssKicksYou: Boomer does this to Dayna at the end of a rather unconvincing fight scene.
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* AssKicksYou: Boomer Bomber does this to Dayna at the end of a rather unconvincing fight scene.
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* HatesBaths: The Space Rats.
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* HatesBaths: The Space Rats.Who needs one when you sweat regular?
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** Boomer trying to be a tough space punk. At least Altan has the required ham.
* {{Padding}}: The characters stare at viewscreens and creep through quarries for much longer than is necessary.
* {{Padding}}: The characters stare at viewscreens and creep through quarries for much longer than is necessary.
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** Boomer Bomber trying to be a tough space punk. At least Altan has the required ham.
* {{Padding}}: The characters stare at viewscreens and creep through quarriesfor much longer than is necessary.
* {{Padding}}: The characters stare at viewscreens and creep through quarries
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* ColdEquation: With a missile homing in on them, Avon sets the Stardrive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, killing her in the process.
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* ElaborateUndergroundBaseElaborateUndergroundBase: The Stardrive research lab and Space Rats chopper hanger is hidden under the BBCQuarry.
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* GoodIsNotNice: With a missile homing in on them, Avon sets the drive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, killing her in the process.
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* GoodIsNotNice: With a missile homing Plenty in on them, Avon sets this episode, but especially the drive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, killing her in the process.ending.
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* GotVolunteered: Villa is sent down to negotiate with the Space Rats, seeing as he's encountered them before. He should have kept up the drunk act.
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* GotVolunteered: GotVolunteered:
** Villa is sent down to negotiate with the Space Rats, seeing as he's encountered them before. He should have kept up the drunk act.
** Villa is sent down to negotiate with the Space Rats, seeing as he's encountered them before. He should have kept up the drunk act.
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** We get a close-up of the door control that Dayna uses to seal off the space rats.
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** We get a close-up of the door control that Dayna uses to seal off delay the space rats.Space Rats from pursuing them.
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* ThereWasADoor: Tarrant and later the Space Rats burn through the walls with lasers.
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* AsYouKnow: Avon explains his looney plan and the reason for it in SarcasmMode, given that ''[[WhatTheHellHero everyone]]'' is trying to talk him out of it.
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* AsYouKnow: Avon explains his looney loony plan and the reason for it in SarcasmMode, given that ''[[WhatTheHellHero everyone]]'' is trying to talk him out of it.
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* AsYouKnow: Avon explains his looney plan and the reason for it in SarcasmMode.
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* AsYouKnow: Avon explains his looney plan and the reason for it in SarcasmMode.SarcasmMode, given that ''[[WhatTheHellHero everyone]]'' is trying to talk him out of it.
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** Boomer trying to be a tough QuincyPunk. At least Altan has the required ham.
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** Boomer trying to be a tough QuincyPunk.space punk. At least Altan has the required ham.
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-->'''Altan:''' "Weeeelll, Weeeelll, waaat urrr yoo dooooeeeeeng hungeeng ugghhruuund??? Yoo veeesh too jun uzzz?"uzzz?
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* AlienLunch: The Space Rats chomp on lizards.
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Presumably this is the 'ancient Earth sect' the Space Rats are descended from.
* AssKicksYou: Boomer does this to Dayna at the end of a rather unconvincing fight scene.
* AsYouKnow: Avon explains his looney plan and the reason for it in SarcasmMode.
* BadBoss: Avon decides WeNeedADistraction, so he sends down Dayna and Villa to get captured, not warning them the CCTV cameras are scattered everywhere and still operational.
* BaitAndSwitchComparison: Villa is ranting on about how the Space Rats are total psychos obsessed with sex, drugs, and fast space-choppers. "And the fellas are just as bad."
* BlatantLies: Avon tells Dayna and Villa they can't beam them out as the teleporter isn't working. We then see Avon, who's actually down on the planet's surface with Soolin and Tarrant.
* BBCQuarry: Caspar is a dull windswept s**thole without a friendly ghost in sight.
* ChekhovsGun:
** We get a close-up of the door control that Dayna uses to seal off the space rats.
** Avon sets up command-detonated mines that he later uses to take out the pursuing Space Rats.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Avon tells the crew to start recording the Federation patrol right before they blow up. Still, it's shown that they do gather important intelligence about their adversary, even before finding out what destroyed them.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase
* EnhanceButton: The space chopper is moving at Standard by 12.6, yet the resolution is still high enough to zoom in on the Space Rat insignia on the pilot's helmet.
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: When Scorpio clips the asteroid, things blow up in the control room. Avon orders Slave to activate the backup system. Slave responds that explosion ''was'' the backup system!
* FailedASpotCheck: Atlan doesn't notice Tarrant laser-burning a hole through the wall behind him, producing copious amounts of smoke and noise.
* FakeShemp: 'Dr Plaxton' wears a ridiculously huge hooded cloak during the chase scene.
* FasterThanLightTravel: The Photonic Drive.
* ForcefulKiss: Altan to Plaxton.
* FragileSpeedster: The choppers used by the Space Rats. Scorpio is still just a freighter, but now it's the fastest one in the galaxy.
* FutureSlang: "Bending" and "gooks".
-->'''Atlan:''' OK, bend them.
-->'''Villa:''' [alarmed] What does that mean?
-->'''Atlan:''' [EvilLaugh] You'll find out.
* GoingNative: Altan insists that he's not a Space Rat, but as he's wearing their regalia and is just as obsessed with speed and senseless violence, the comment is unconvincing.
* GoodIsNotNice: With a missile homing in on them, Avon sets the drive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, killing her in the process.
-->'''Dayna:''' What about Dr Plaxton?
-->'''Avon:''' Who?
* GotVolunteered: Villa is sent down to negotiate with the Space Rats, seeing as he's encountered them before. He should have kept up the drunk act.
** Dayna and Villa pretend to be students of Dr Plaxton, and loudly discuss the improved model Space Drive she developed back at the lab. Assuming he's being cheated, Altan quickly decides YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness, forcing Plaxton to go with Scorpio's crew.
* TheGunslinger: Soolin guns down numerous Space Rats during their escape.
* HatesBaths: The Space Rats.
* IdiosyncraticWipes: ''Film/StarWars''-like screen wipes break up the action.
* InformedAttribute: Villa and Plaxton talk endlessly about how psychotic the Space Rats are. While Altan portrays this attribute admirably, choking Plaxton at random and demanding the prisoners be "bended", he claims not to be a Space Rat, presumably because the actual Space Rats spend most of their time sprawling on comfy cushions getting stoned.
* LargeHam:
** Avon, Soolin and Tarrant prove you don't need dialogue to do this, as they can't run through a quarry without frequent breaks to pose dramatically.
** Altan of course as EvilIsHammy, except he does it with a silly accent.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes
* {{Narm}}
** Dr Plaxton screams in pain and terror as she dies... then tilts her head to the other side and continues to scream. Compare this with the novelisation, which goes into graphic detail about her being unable to scream because her face has melted off.
** Try to watch our heroes fleeing in that all-terrain buggy without singing ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la laa~]]''.
** Boomer trying to be a tough QuincyPunk. At least Altan has the required ham.
* {{Padding}}: The characters stare at viewscreens and creep through quarries for much longer than is necessary.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: A Space Rat chopper takes out three Federation warships in an instant.
* PlayingDrunk: Villa's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* TheQuincyPunk: Space Rats, a gang of far-future outlaw bikers InSpace who dress in leather and have gigantic mohawks, but match the costume and hair with Roy Wood-style glam-rock face paint.
* RealityEnsues
** Avon comes up with the kind of plan that would come off without a hitch in any other space opera, only for Scorpio to crash into the asteroid.
** Villa beams down to a planet and gets jammed between rocks in the usual quarry.
* RecklessGunUsage: Villa fumbles his pistol off a cliff while hiding from a patrol. Fortunately it doesn't go off.
* ReluctantMadScientist: Dr Plaxton apparently made an alliance with the Space Rats to get (steal) raw material to continue her research after the Federation collapsed. Three years later she's starting to regret this decision. As Orac notes, the reconstituted Federation has started a building program to replace its fleet, so she'd have all the resources she needed if only she'd stayed at home.
* SelfHealingPhlebotinum: Tarrant uses some kind of repair laser to patch up the hull.
* TemptingFate: Villa ''keeps doing this!'' The space rat patrol hasn't seen them - turns out they're being watched by a CCTV camera. Villa declares it's an antique that probably hasn't worked in ages; GilliganCut to them being [[SinisterSurveillance watched on a monitor]]. "At least we have the element of surprise!" Cue space rat watching them through binoculars.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Altan watching the Platonic Drive being tested. "More...more...come on MORE!"
* ScottyTime: Subverted; Plaxton needs 50 minutes to install the Stardrive. She's told she has 45 minutes. Eventually it comes down to a few seconds they don't have, [[ColdEquation so Avon ends up sacrificing her to save the ship.]]
* SoundInSpace: We hear Scorpio impacting the asteroid, and the Federation patrol exploding.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Scorpio now has all the advantages that the Liberator did -- a superintelligent talking computer, a teleport system, and now an FTL drive faster than anything the Federation has.
* StealthInSpace: Avon intends to get past the detection system by hugging close to an asteroid, which any starship would steer clear of. They get too close and damage Scorpio. By the end of the episode however, they've got a stardrive that makes them so fast that stealth is irrelevant.
* VisionaryVillain: The Space Rats just want ships that can go faster. Altan however has visions of [[SpacePirates holding the trade lanes to ransom.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Napier, Dr Plaxton's assistant?
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent
-->'''Altan:''' "Weeeelll, waaat urrr yoo dooooeeeeeng hungeeng ugghhruuund??? Yoo veeesh too jun uzzz?"
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Orac is its usual annoying self, forcing the crew to [[RewindReplayRepeat check the footage frame by frame]] to discover what's obvious to the supercomputer, but not to their Mark One Eyeball.
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Presumably this is the 'ancient Earth sect' the Space Rats are descended from.
* AssKicksYou: Boomer does this to Dayna at the end of a rather unconvincing fight scene.
* AsYouKnow: Avon explains his looney plan and the reason for it in SarcasmMode.
* BadBoss: Avon decides WeNeedADistraction, so he sends down Dayna and Villa to get captured, not warning them the CCTV cameras are scattered everywhere and still operational.
* BaitAndSwitchComparison: Villa is ranting on about how the Space Rats are total psychos obsessed with sex, drugs, and fast space-choppers. "And the fellas are just as bad."
* BlatantLies: Avon tells Dayna and Villa they can't beam them out as the teleporter isn't working. We then see Avon, who's actually down on the planet's surface with Soolin and Tarrant.
* BBCQuarry: Caspar is a dull windswept s**thole without a friendly ghost in sight.
* ChekhovsGun:
** We get a close-up of the door control that Dayna uses to seal off the space rats.
** Avon sets up command-detonated mines that he later uses to take out the pursuing Space Rats.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Avon tells the crew to start recording the Federation patrol right before they blow up. Still, it's shown that they do gather important intelligence about their adversary, even before finding out what destroyed them.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase
* EnhanceButton: The space chopper is moving at Standard by 12.6, yet the resolution is still high enough to zoom in on the Space Rat insignia on the pilot's helmet.
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: When Scorpio clips the asteroid, things blow up in the control room. Avon orders Slave to activate the backup system. Slave responds that explosion ''was'' the backup system!
* FailedASpotCheck: Atlan doesn't notice Tarrant laser-burning a hole through the wall behind him, producing copious amounts of smoke and noise.
* FakeShemp: 'Dr Plaxton' wears a ridiculously huge hooded cloak during the chase scene.
* FasterThanLightTravel: The Photonic Drive.
* ForcefulKiss: Altan to Plaxton.
* FragileSpeedster: The choppers used by the Space Rats. Scorpio is still just a freighter, but now it's the fastest one in the galaxy.
* FutureSlang: "Bending" and "gooks".
-->'''Atlan:''' OK, bend them.
-->'''Villa:''' [alarmed] What does that mean?
-->'''Atlan:''' [EvilLaugh] You'll find out.
* GoingNative: Altan insists that he's not a Space Rat, but as he's wearing their regalia and is just as obsessed with speed and senseless violence, the comment is unconvincing.
* GoodIsNotNice: With a missile homing in on them, Avon sets the drive to activate when Dr Plaxton makes the final connection, killing her in the process.
-->'''Dayna:''' What about Dr Plaxton?
-->'''Avon:''' Who?
* GotVolunteered: Villa is sent down to negotiate with the Space Rats, seeing as he's encountered them before. He should have kept up the drunk act.
** Dayna and Villa pretend to be students of Dr Plaxton, and loudly discuss the improved model Space Drive she developed back at the lab. Assuming he's being cheated, Altan quickly decides YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness, forcing Plaxton to go with Scorpio's crew.
* TheGunslinger: Soolin guns down numerous Space Rats during their escape.
* HatesBaths: The Space Rats.
* IdiosyncraticWipes: ''Film/StarWars''-like screen wipes break up the action.
* InformedAttribute: Villa and Plaxton talk endlessly about how psychotic the Space Rats are. While Altan portrays this attribute admirably, choking Plaxton at random and demanding the prisoners be "bended", he claims not to be a Space Rat, presumably because the actual Space Rats spend most of their time sprawling on comfy cushions getting stoned.
* LargeHam:
** Avon, Soolin and Tarrant prove you don't need dialogue to do this, as they can't run through a quarry without frequent breaks to pose dramatically.
** Altan of course as EvilIsHammy, except he does it with a silly accent.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes
* {{Narm}}
** Dr Plaxton screams in pain and terror as she dies... then tilts her head to the other side and continues to scream. Compare this with the novelisation, which goes into graphic detail about her being unable to scream because her face has melted off.
** Try to watch our heroes fleeing in that all-terrain buggy without singing ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la laa~]]''.
** Boomer trying to be a tough QuincyPunk. At least Altan has the required ham.
* {{Padding}}: The characters stare at viewscreens and creep through quarries for much longer than is necessary.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: A Space Rat chopper takes out three Federation warships in an instant.
* PlayingDrunk: Villa's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* TheQuincyPunk: Space Rats, a gang of far-future outlaw bikers InSpace who dress in leather and have gigantic mohawks, but match the costume and hair with Roy Wood-style glam-rock face paint.
* RealityEnsues
** Avon comes up with the kind of plan that would come off without a hitch in any other space opera, only for Scorpio to crash into the asteroid.
** Villa beams down to a planet and gets jammed between rocks in the usual quarry.
* RecklessGunUsage: Villa fumbles his pistol off a cliff while hiding from a patrol. Fortunately it doesn't go off.
* ReluctantMadScientist: Dr Plaxton apparently made an alliance with the Space Rats to get (steal) raw material to continue her research after the Federation collapsed. Three years later she's starting to regret this decision. As Orac notes, the reconstituted Federation has started a building program to replace its fleet, so she'd have all the resources she needed if only she'd stayed at home.
* SelfHealingPhlebotinum: Tarrant uses some kind of repair laser to patch up the hull.
* TemptingFate: Villa ''keeps doing this!'' The space rat patrol hasn't seen them - turns out they're being watched by a CCTV camera. Villa declares it's an antique that probably hasn't worked in ages; GilliganCut to them being [[SinisterSurveillance watched on a monitor]]. "At least we have the element of surprise!" Cue space rat watching them through binoculars.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Altan watching the Platonic Drive being tested. "More...more...come on MORE!"
* ScottyTime: Subverted; Plaxton needs 50 minutes to install the Stardrive. She's told she has 45 minutes. Eventually it comes down to a few seconds they don't have, [[ColdEquation so Avon ends up sacrificing her to save the ship.]]
* SoundInSpace: We hear Scorpio impacting the asteroid, and the Federation patrol exploding.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Scorpio now has all the advantages that the Liberator did -- a superintelligent talking computer, a teleport system, and now an FTL drive faster than anything the Federation has.
* StealthInSpace: Avon intends to get past the detection system by hugging close to an asteroid, which any starship would steer clear of. They get too close and damage Scorpio. By the end of the episode however, they've got a stardrive that makes them so fast that stealth is irrelevant.
* VisionaryVillain: The Space Rats just want ships that can go faster. Altan however has visions of [[SpacePirates holding the trade lanes to ransom.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Napier, Dr Plaxton's assistant?
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent
-->'''Altan:''' "Weeeelll, waaat urrr yoo dooooeeeeeng hungeeng ugghhruuund??? Yoo veeesh too jun uzzz?"
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Orac is its usual annoying self, forcing the crew to [[RewindReplayRepeat check the footage frame by frame]] to discover what's obvious to the supercomputer, but not to their Mark One Eyeball.
