Voice assistants ought to be like Orac from Blake's 7; rude but helpful, mostly harmless. LLM chatbots with text-to-speech-to-text are exactly the opposite; polite but unreliable, and often harmful.

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Need mindcandy, so I'm rewatching Galaxy Quest for the umpteenth time. Love the homage to the ending of Blake's 7 towards the end of the movie. If you know, you know ; )

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Me:
> A smart, tough sometime smuggler and ex-revolutionary, surviving in a post-Federation galaxy

Huh. Make it 2 of them, and I just described the premise of Firefly. But that's not an argument against making a Jenna series. The Blake's 7 universe is pretty different and Firefly demonstrates nicely the wide range of story possibilities opened up by such a character premise.

I must look into any Jenna lore established by B7 novels and Big Finish audio series.

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Listening to the latest episode of Blake's 7 In Character;

https://neozaz.com/blakes-7-in-character-season-2-launch/

It strikes me that a new series could be made in the B7 universe by following what happened to Jenna after the events of Star One. Plenty of contemporary actors would jump at the chance to play a well written version of Jenna. A smart, tough sometime smuggler and ex-revolutionary, surviving in a post-Federation galaxy.

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"I always liked Chris Boucher saying that when he wrote Avon, Avon has two motivations for everything. He has the selfish motivation, and the more noble motivation, and then it's up to you to decide what's really motivating him."

https://blakes7.libsyn.com/26-straight-outta-the-federation-star-one

Good writing sticks to telling the characters' story, in all it's messiness, and leaves the audience to interpret what it all means. Is Blake or Avon a hero or a villain? That's up to the viewer to decide.

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