(From www.blake7.com)
Supreme
Commander Servalan /
Commissioner
Sleer
Servalan makes an
entrance during the second episode of the first series, but what an entrance!
Easily the most elegant character in the Blake's 7, (in what other series
would you see a character running across the surface of a chalk pit wearing
an evening dress?) she is also one of the most dangerous, her lust for
power makes her completely ruthless without a trace of mercy. Starting
out as a minor member of the space force, Servalan worked her way up to
Supreme Commander, and eventually ousted the supreme council of the Federation
in a coup (in "Star One"), installing herself as President just prior to
the Intergalactic war at the end of season 2. It is a short lived victory,
at the end of season 3 (in "Terminal") her capture of the damaged Liberator
removes her from her power base in the Federation and she is deposed.Forced
to adopt the identity of Commisioner Sleer she begins a new plan, to take
over the Federation again using her control over the drug pylene-50, which
is key to the Federation's attempts to regain it's lost worlds. We do not
learn of Servalan's fate at the end of the series, but with all resistance
crushed we can be sure that the trail of bodies will grow longer, her only
real failure has been her continuing inability to best Avon or Blake.
Servalan is almost
certainly the strongest female character in science fiction, she is devious,
cunning, and strong willed, a formidable adversary.
Badie
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