My main problem with this episode is that there is a deadly plague, and the crew are exposed to it, and it doesn't seem to worry them. I know that of course, the Liberator medical facilities can deal with it, but I would like to have that acknowledged. Vila, at least, should be very afraid - and should say so. It's petty and ridiculous, but it ruins the episode for me.

On the plus side, after a couple of bad episodes for him, this shows Blake's humanitarian instincts at their best.

Why name your base after the 17th letter of the alphabet? Are there 16 other, earlier ones? I thought most of them had two letters, anyway - XK 14, XK72 etc.

No idea if Mother's day there is celebrated same date as us here??

No idea if Mother's day there is celebrated same date as us here??

While the costumes are clumsy and horrible, the furniture is rather good.

This is a Federation base, though - the XK one was independent.

And there are no outfits now that are clumsy and horrible? Leggings on the grossly out-sized as on Instagram, per chance?

I like the costumes. They are not pretending to be late 1970s; they are 'out of this world'. Emanuel Ungaro eat your heart out.

No, in Britain, and I think only in Britain, it's in March. I used to have an Austrian friend who bought a card on British Mother's Day, then kept it for the Austrian one in May.

We decided to be USA-an for ours but I think we threw a coin in the air for Fathers' Day.

We decided to be USA-an for ours but I think we threw a coin in the air for Fathers' Day.

But the leggings, I think, are probably quite comfortable for the wearer. These look very difficult to do any sort of work in.

But who are we to know? Getting around in shorts in the jungle ain't really sensible either (leeches... eek! Mozzies... eek!) but people do it. Wearing short tunics in blistery old Pritan, when you could be wearing that eastern trousery thing, ditto.

Originally it was about letting your female servants go home to see their mothers on the fourth Sunday of Lent (because you'd need them around at Easter, obviously). This was long before an American realised it was a commercial opportunity.

Wiler's mask is a bit OTT, isn't it?

We are all authorities on masks, these days!

And Avon's the only hand-washer in the place - and he only did it once.

No, Vila pushed between Avon and Tynus to wash his as well.

From what he is saying, it looks like Bellfriar went out to examine Wiler, which might explain how he was contaminated.

Ah, that could be it. Blake's wrong about it being air-borne otherwise he'd have to concede that they have might have caught it. But does Blake touch Bellfriar?

Ah, that could be it. Blake's wrong about it being air-borne otherwise he'd have to concede that they have might have caught it. But does Blake touch Bellfriar?

61 Cygnae? Surely you mean Cygni, Blake?

He's Welsh.

I like the meals in a bag too. To me these little things suggest tha, for this episode, someone had really been thinking in terms of what happens in Space and it being different from Earth.

Anyone else read Chris Brookmyre's science fiction stories? Love them. And, of course, he's A B7 fan.