History Recap / BlakesSevenS3E5TheHarvestOfKairos

* AbandonedWarehouse: Avon discovers the antique moonlander sitting in an aircraft hanger.

* BadassBoast: Avon claims he's the only Man capable of reprogramming Zen.

-->'''Tarrant:''' But there's nothing I can do with this...
-->'''Avon:''' [[RunOrDie YOU CAN GET IT OFF THE GROUND!]]

-->'''Vila:''' Just one pocket full. [[IfIWereARichMan I suppose I could retire to the lakeside of Gardinos]] and be waited on by those cute, little--
-->'''Tarrant:''' Yes. Well, what you do with your [[DoubleEntendre booty]] is up to you.

-->'''Servalan:''' So tell me, Zen, how does one operate this craft?
-->'''Zen:''' One manipulates the controls, and the craft functions accordingly.
-->'''Servalan:''' Yes, and I've heard of your impudence. Now perhaps you will tell me ''how'' to manipulate the controls.

-->'''Jarvik:''' You don't know Tarrant, Madam. He's a Man. He thinks and acts like a Man, not like a machine. That's why he's still alive.
-->'''Servalan:''' And you, being a similar Man, no doubt, in thought and action, [[SarcasmMode will know exactly where he's heading now?]]
-->'''Jarvik:''' Oh, yes. Right now he's heading for [[TitleDrop the Harvest of Kairos]].

* ScreenShake: During the space battle and moonlander launch.

-->'''Avon''': This happens to be the most sophisticated lifeform that it has ever been my good fortune to come across. Present company ''not'' excepted.
-->'''Tarrant''': Life? But it looks like...
-->'''Avon''': A rock. Yes. Well, when you live on the permanent dark side of a planet, nobody cares too much what you look like.

-->'''Avon:''' Once your friend Jarvik teleports that's the last we'll see of the Liberator. A couple of plasma bolts will be the last we'll see of anything.
-->'''Tarrant:''' [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece But there's nothing I can do with this...]]
-->'''Avon:''' [[RunOrDie YOU CAN GET IT OFF THE GROUND!]]

* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: Tarrant bluffing Servalan into fleeing.

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

* {{Camp}}: Captain Shad, which makes you wonder at the enthusiasm https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BlakesSevenS3E5TheHarvestOfKairos[[HoYay with which he obeys the manly Jarvik's orders]].

** Jarvik is hauled before the President of the Federation after he's heard bad-mouthing her tactics. His response is to announce, "Woman, you're beautiful" and give Servalan a ForcefulKiss. When Servalan orders him sent to the punishment cells, [[PutTheirHeadsTogether he bangs her guards' heads together]], picks up a weapon and points it at Servalan...and then casually puts it aside, saying he's not here to brawl with her minions. It works because Servalan [[YouGotSpunk enjoys his manly chutzpah]].

* YouGotSpunk:
-->'''Jarvik:''' You fight well, but you're still a Woman. ''(Dayna tries to knee him in groin)'' Not quite a lady...

* AuthorTract: Another Ben Steed episode, another lecture about how Women need to [[StayInTheKitchen shut up]] and [[WomenPreferStrongMen give in to their desire for Manly Men like Jarvik]]. Includes lots of gratuitous OutOfCharacter moments - suddenly Servalan hunts the Liberator using Non-Manly computers and science, instead of her usual scheming, manipulation and vicious cunning. She seems to want the approval of someone she'd [[BadBoss kill out of hand in other episodes.]] Avon, an equal-opportunity misanthrope, is suddenly a misogynist instead. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and Dayna loses to a guy she'd demolish if someone else wrote it.]] Add in the [[invoked]]SpecialEffectFailure and you're left with an episode that can really only be enjoyed as {{Camp}}.

* AuthorTract: Another Ben Steed episode, another lecture about how Women need to [[StayInTheKitchen shut up]] and [[WomenPreferStrongMen give in to their desire for Manly Men like Jarvik]]. Includes lots of gratuitous OutOfCharacter moments - suddenly Servalan hunts the Liberator using Non-Manly computers and science, instead of her usual scheming, manipulation and vicious cunning. She seems to want the approval of someone she'd [[BadBoss kill out of hand in other episodes.]] Avon, an equal-opportunity misanthrope, is suddenly a misogynist instead. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and Dayna loses to a guy she'd demolish if someone else wrote it.]] Add in the SpecialEffectFailure and you're left with an episode that can really only be enjoyed as {{Camp}}.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The cast are menaced by a GiantSpider-like creature. Unfortunately it's NightmareRetardant with its slow wobbly walk and big googly eyes.

* {{Camp}}: Captain Shad, which makes you wonder at the enthusiasm [[HoYay with which he obeys the manly Jarvik's orders]].

* ColdEquation: A Federation transporter with a valuable cargo is too heavy to reach orbit from a DeathWorld, so Servalan orders the captain to leave [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness some of his laborers behind]]. There's a moment of BlackComedy when a guard is [[KickTheDog taunting the laborers]] as he locks them out, [[LaserGuidedKarma only to find the transporter taking off without him as well.]]

* DoABarrelRoll: The Liberator rotates on its longitudinal axis to [[TakeOurWordForIt imply the clever manoeuvres]] our AcePilot is putting the Liberator through with NoBudget for special effects.

* HelpImStuck: A terrifying GiantSpider [[NightmareRetardant wobbles slowly]] towards [[DamselInDistress Dayna]], who's [[BrokenHeel caught in a flimsy strand of spider web]] in the [[FailedASpotCheck middle of an open field in broad daylight]]. Why she doesn't just unlace her boot and jump free is [[DistressBall not revealed]].

* WomenPreferStrongMen[=/=]ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Presumably why Servalan puts up with Jarvik [[WhatsUpKingDude aggressively manhandling the President of the Terran Federation]] in her own control room. Though Jacqueline Pearce assumed that Servalan was like an UptownGirl enjoying a "bit of rough" for kicks.

[[caption-width-right:350:Servalans [[WomenPreferStrongMen meets a manly man]]. Lucky her.]]

-->'''Tarrant:''' Yes. Well, what you do with your booty is up to you.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: As they've fleeing the Liberator, Servalan orders Dayna shot. Dayna quickly points out that if they kill her, who operates the teleport?

* NotSoDifferent: An invoked trope by Jarvik when he's convincing Servalan to listen to him on how to take down Tarrant.

-->'''Tarrant:''' Yes. Well, what you do with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar your booty]] is up to you.

** Vila pipe-dreams about how he'll retire on his share of the loot, but Tarrant reminds him "[[ItsEasySoItSucks Two weeks of that, and you'd be looking for something to break into]]". Vila himself realises this when offered the chance to escape his life as an outlaw in [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E6CityAtTheEdgeOfTheWorld the next episode]].

* IRejectYourReality: Jarvik pleads with Servalan to believe her own eyes rather than what Zen is telling her. When Zen offers a possible explanation (the lander is just a holographic projection designed to hide the spacecraft's true nature) she decides to run.

** Vila pipe-dreams about how he'll retire on his share of the loot, but Tarrant reminds him "[[ItsEasySoItSucks Two weeks of that, and you'd be looking for something to break into]]". Vila himself realises this when offered the chance to escape in [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E6CityAtTheEdgeOfTheWorld the next episode]].

* CleavageWindow: Dayna

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Given her notorious LackOfEmpathy, Jarvik asking Servalan when she last wept over the death of a friend sounds ridiculous, but she does just that in "Sand".

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: The moonlander.

* BaitAndSwitchComment
-->'''Servalan:''' But first, there is the question of that [[ForcefulKiss degrading and primitive act]] to which I was subjected in the control room. [beat] I should like you to do it again.

* GiantSpider: Unfortunately it's NightmareRetardant.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Our heroes lose the most powerful ship in the galaxy and their two {{Master Computer}}s.

* YouGotSpunk

* YouWillBeSpared

* SuddenlyShouting:

** Servalan takes a shine to Avon's amoral intelligence, and says that if she did shoot the crew one-by-one to enforce Tarrant's compliance, she might consider sparing him.

** Jarvik is hauled before the President of the Federation after he's heard bad-mouthing her tactics. His response is to announce, "Woman, you're beautiful" and give Servalan a ForcefulKiss. When Servalan orders him sent to the punishment cells, [[PutTheirHeadsTogether he bangs her guards' heads together]], picks up a weapon and points it at Servalan...and then casually puts it aside, saying he's not here to brawl with her minions.