Dear Johnny Fanboy,

An old one for you from Blake's 7. In the episode Space Fall, in which the crew first enter the Liberator, they find the ship's weapons, but it is stated and shown that no one can take more than one gun at a time. A series or two later, they start sending one crewmember to fetch five or six guns. How?

Pete Andrews

Johnny Fanboy replies:

Bear in mind that Blake's crew includes a technical wiz, Avon, and that by the end of the first series they are also joined by Orac, an artificial intelligence that can hack into and take control of virtually any computer system - even the Liberator's computer, Zen. I reckon that either Avon or Orac, or both of them working together, eventually manage to crack Zen's safeguards to allow the crew to take as many weapons as they want.

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