I remember at one time trying to think up ingenious ways in which the Federation of Star Trek might have gradually metamorphosed into that of Blake's Seven!
Teleporting was one problem - there had to have been some development or some sort of weapon invented at some distant date that meant teleporting became so extremely dangerous that it would go out of use for hundreds of years (except for those funny bracelets, of course!) And naturally, most of the alien races of Trek would have had to be liquidated at some point and then forgotten! Various signs of prosperity would have had to turn out to be unsustainable too, in the long run.
The back-history of Blake's 7 was less of a problem, I recall: most discrepancies could somehow be explained away as misinformation!
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Date: 2008-03-24 02:39 am (UTC)Teleporting was one problem - there had to have been some development or some sort of weapon invented at some distant date that meant teleporting became so extremely dangerous that it would go out of use for hundreds of years (except for those funny bracelets, of course!) And naturally, most of the alien races of Trek would have had to be liquidated at some point and then forgotten! Various signs of prosperity would have had to turn out to be unsustainable too, in the long run.
The back-history of Blake's 7 was less of a problem, I recall: most discrepancies could somehow be explained away as misinformation!
Anyway, it was an interesting excercise!