History Recap / BlakesSevenS3E13Terminal

* SeriesFauxnale: The third season ends with the destruction of the Liberator, Servalan appearing to be killed, Blake's confirmed by her as dead, and our heroes stranded on a planet. This was meant to be the end of the show. So imagine everyone's surprise when the continuity announcer declared that the show would be back the following year.

* HistoryRepeats: To the events of [[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E5PressurePoint Pressure Point]]. Once more the captain of the Liberator is obsessively pursuing something, withholding information from and running ramshod over the objections of their crew, only for the object they're pursuing to turn out to have never been there, and it all to be an elaborate trap. And, as we learn in [[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E1Rescue the next episode]], [[spoiler:it gets one of the crew killed]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: UsefulNotes/{{Evolution}} is not predestined, but a response to the environment. Given that humanity is now settled on hundreds of planets, no single artificial environment could predetermine the course of its evolution.

* BigNo[=/=]YouFool: Servalan's response when Avon tells Vila to run for it in the Liberator instead of going along with her EvilPlan.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Avon leads them into a trap organised by Servalan, refuses to alter course around the liquid cloud, and takes Orac's key down to the planet so they can't use it to analyze the enzymes.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Vila takes Orac with him by [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible pretending it's a sculpture]]. Orac is switched off and Servalan isn't there to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy tell her mooks otherwise]].

** Gareth Thomas had grown his beard for a theater role he was performing. As he was only available for a short time, his scene had to be filmed in a nearby village hall, hence the dark set to obscure the surroundings.
** Creator/DeepRoy was supposed to be playing one of the Links, but broke his collar bone when Steven Pacey accidentally threw him down the hill while rehearsing the fight scene.

* ScreenShake: [[SpecialEffectsFailure It needs some work]] as the screen does more shaking than the crew.
* SeriesFauxnale: The third season ends with the destruction of the Liberator, Servalan appearing to be killed, Blake's whereabouts unclear and our heroes stranded on a planet. This was meant to be the end of the show. So imagine everyone's surprise when the continuity announcer declared that the show would be back the following year.

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself / IWorkAlone

* WhamEpisode: The Liberator is destroyed and Servalan dies. Or does she?

* YouOweMe[=/=]RememberThatYouTrustMe

* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Played with -- Blake never existed, so Servalan doesn't have to release him. She lets the crew of Liberator live, and Vila beam down to Terminal, but it's implied that she [[DeathWorld doesn't expect them to survive anyway]]. [[spoiler:To help ensure this, the next episode reveals that she's booby-trapped both the base and the spacecraft she arrived on.]] Even if they do survive, Servalan's fleet of Liberator ships would make her so invincible any ragtag group of rebels won't be a threat unless they possessed [[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E1Rescue similar]] [[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E4Stardrive technology]].

* TimTaylorTechnology: Servalan's FamousLastWords are "Maximum power!". The Liberator tears itself apart under the strain.

* ShoutOut
** Apparently once-proud humanity will give way to a Film/PlanetOfTheApes.

* FuturePrimitive: The Links, presumably from the term 'Missing Link'. However according to Servalan, "the creature you saw is not what Man developed from. It is what Man will become."

* DivertingPower: Vila orders Zen to shut down the auto-repair systems as they're fighting a losing battle and draining the power banks. Instead he orders Zen to divert all power to its computer analysis to analyse the infection and find a solution.

* EvolutionPowerUp: Terminal was an experiment to study what humanity would evolve into. It's not pretty.

* CoveredInGunge

* HumansAreBastards: "The creature you saw is not what Man developed from. It is what Man will become."

* BigNo[=/=]YouFool: Servalan's response when Blake tells Vila to run for it in the Liberator instead of going along with her EvilPlan.

* MilkingTheGiantCow: Servalan does an open palm version when ordering "Maximum power!" The perils of [[LargeHam excessive hamminess]] are immediately demonstrated with StuffBlowingUp.

* TimTaylorTechnology: Servalan's FamousLastWords are "Maximum power!". Liberator promptly tears itself apart under the strain.

* SchmuckBait: In case rescuing Blake isn't enough of a motive, the message promised that Blake had found a GameChanger that would make them "rich and invincible". [[spoiler:Ironically when Avon does get his hands on such a device in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E11Orbit Orbit]]", he has to throw it out the airlock.]]

* MilkingTheGiantCow: Servalan does an open palm version when ordering "Maximum Power!" The perils of [[LargeHam excessive hamminess]] are promptly demonstrated.

* TimTaylorTechnology: Servalan's FamousLastWords are "Maximum Power!" while MilkingTheGiantCow. Liberator promptly tears itself apart under the strain.

* MeaningfulName: "Terminal" was meant to be the end of the series. InUniverse it's an experiment to determine where mankind will end up.

* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: Zen 'dying'.

** The technologically advanced race living beneath the surface and the savage primitives above, is an inversion of the Eloi and Morlocks from ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''.

* OffTheShelfFX: The substance that contaminates the Liberator was toy slime.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Vila takes Orac with him by [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible pretending it's a sculpture]]. Orac is switched off and Servalan isn't there to tell her mooks otherwise.

* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Liberator passes through a cloud of liquid (in a vacuum?) which contains enzymes that start eating away at the hull.