The three Blakes 7 stories contributed by "bs" (appropriate initials) are the worst not just of this show, but TV in general. This last one reaches surreal proportions of badness and misery. Bs sure loved him some wild barbarian men (here enacted by a large dude with manboobs and gorgeous Barbie doll hair), as much as he hated women. That's ALL his scripts are about, and it's clear how much trouble he had abiding by the most basic requirements of the show, e.g. Let our team be the heroes and win, since the team included women and men on a (theoretically anyway) equal basis.
But no, it was just too much for Mr. Bs, he of leetle balls and huge misogyny, to let a character like Dayna (conceptualized as a nigh-invincible fighter and weapons jock) win fights with men, so in his first story he actually makes her lose to his barbarian idol, while in this one she only "sorta" wins because two other women with special powers are secretly helping her. And to top that, he actually has those characters utter the following lines, lest anyone in the audience misses the constraint: "The black woman must win." "Of course." Ah, bs, you clever little meta-plotting dickweed, you.
The episode is just one misogynistic sketch after another, including a horrifying "surgery" in which women are "broken", their will and "power" removed, which renders them susceptible to bearing "sons". One victim of this surgery is Mr. Barbieboobs' wife, who loftily says twice that NOW (after the surgery) she's a Woman, meek and dutiful.
Pella, the leader of the "unbroken" women, is pictured not only as totally evil but also incompetent and stupid, despite at the same time being cunning and in possession of a power that maintained rebel women in freedom all this time. But them's the contradictions that insane, spluttering misogyny will lead one into.
As horrific, ugly, and ridiculous as bs's recurrent misogynistic obsessions and characters were, one could at least ignore them as passing moments. But he didn't stop at inserting his manias, he defecated all over the recurrent characters and tone of the series. His treatment ruined Servalan (in the first of his stories), the Liberator crew (whom he makes out to be nincompoops in comparison with his "uber-dick" knuckledraggers), and the relationships between them. In this story he dismantles Avon, the most complex character of the show, and reduces him to hardly more than a gibbering caveman too--cuz that's how our bs thinks "real men" are. Avon, the mercurial, cynical, insecure, traumatized creature who held a torch for a woman so high his life didn't matter to him untilhe avenged her... Avon who showed so much delicacy toward Callie, who read through Blake... but what's the point--those are not things bs could have conveyed even if he'd cared about them.