Tarrant was originally devised as an older man than Steven Pacey who at the time was only aged 22, and also I have a hunch Tarrant was always the name that the new male crewmember to the Liberator was to be called and also there were rumours this episode was originally written with Blake in mind but had to be rewritten to replace Blake with Tarrant who at one stage was to apparently be the new leader of the crew of the Liberator but that changed and instead Avon took over as the new leader of the Liberator crew and Tarrant basically tried to prove to Avon and the other crewmembers that he was a better leader than Avon.
I do say that Jarvik as a villain was more interesting than Travis ever was in billions of ways and when I saw this episode, first time around I wondered if Jarvik was to become the new henchman to arch-enemy and recurring villain Servalan herself and was also going to be Travis,s replacement and in series 3/4 arch-enemy Servalan no longer had anyone as a regular henchman unlike in series 1/2 with Travis and also in this episode of B7 Tarrant is portrayed as been much older than the actor Steven Pacey, Tarrant was to be aged from 35 to 55 but the producer David Maloney felt it would not work to have an older well known actor playing Tarrant in an established series which was originally set to end and one actor who was considered to play Tarrant who was well known and very talented was Jack Watson who was much older than 35 to 55 he was at the time aged 64 going on 65 and so the production team made Tarrant a much younger man altogether instead of been mid 30s to mid 55s Tarrant was thus played by the awesome Steven Pacey who was only 22 years old in 1979 when the character Del Tarrant was introduced to series 3 of B7 plus I at the time thought Pacy was older than 22 more likely 28, 29 or even early 30s. When tom Baker became Dr Who in the mid 70s he was aged 40 yet IMO he looked younger say in his mid 30s to late 30s.
I do say that this episode of B7 is nowhere near as good as the next episode City at the Edge of the World with future Dr Who actor Colin Baker as the main villain Bayban who was not Federation and also Bayban was very much a villain who was nutty and also the episode with Bayban in does not include the arch-enemy and recurring arch-villain Servalan herself or any Federation personnel I do not think that B7 episode would have worked as well had arch-enemy Servalan been in it with the main villain of that episode Bayban because IMO arch-enemy and arch-villain Servalan would have been overshadowed by Bayban himself. I know some people think Colin Baker was better as the villain Bayban than he was as the 6th Doctor and also one female B7 told me she thought Colin Baker would have made an awesome Blake had Gareth Thomas not been cast in the role of Blake when the series was devised. I suppose Colin Baker could have played Blake in B7 in place of Gareth Thomas and had that been the case in an alternate time line then I think Colin Baker had he been cast as Blake would have stayed with the series for as long as it was running on tv and also it is possible there might have been multiple series of B7 and I cannot had Blake stayed for series 3 of B7 have seen Tarrant ever joining the crew of the Liberator because they would be no need for Tarrant to have been in the Liberator crew had we kept Blake.
Tarrant was originally devised as an older man than Steven Pacey who at the time was only aged 22, and also I have a hunch Tarrant was always the name that the new male crewmember to the Liberator was to be called and also there were rumours this episode was originally written with Blake in mind but had to be rewritten to replace Blake with Tarrant who at one stage was to apparently be the new leader of the crew of the Liberator but that changed and instead Avon took over as the new leader of the Liberator crew and Tarrant basically tried to prove to Avon and the other crewmembers that he was a better leader than Avon.
I do say that Jarvik as a villain was more interesting than Travis ever was in billions of ways and when I saw this episode, first time around I wondered if Jarvik was to become the new henchman to arch-enemy and recurring villain Servalan herself and was also going to be Travis,s replacement and in series 3/4 arch-enemy Servalan no longer had anyone as a regular henchman unlike in series 1/2 with Travis and also in this episode of B7 Tarrant is portrayed as been much older than the actor Steven Pacey, Tarrant was to be aged from 35 to 55 but the producer David Maloney felt it would not work to have an older well known actor playing Tarrant in an established series which was originally set to end and one actor who was considered to play Tarrant who was well known and very talented was Jack Watson who was much older than 35 to 55 he was at the time aged 64 going on 65 and so the production team made Tarrant a much younger man altogether instead of been mid 30s to mid 55s Tarrant was thus played by the awesome Steven Pacey who was only 22 years old in 1979 when the character Del Tarrant was introduced to series 3 of B7 plus I at the time thought Pacy was older than 22 more likely 28, 29 or even early 30s. When tom Baker became Dr Who in the mid 70s he was aged 40 yet IMO he looked younger say in his mid 30s to late 30s.
I do say that this episode of B7 is nowhere near as good as the next episode City at the Edge of the World with future Dr Who actor Colin Baker as the main villain Bayban who was not Federation and also Bayban was very much a villain who was nutty and also the episode with Bayban in does not include the arch-enemy and recurring arch-villain Servalan herself or any Federation personnel I do not think that B7 episode would have worked as well had arch-enemy Servalan been in it with the main villain of that episode Bayban because IMO arch-enemy and arch-villain Servalan would have been overshadowed by Bayban himself. I know some people think Colin Baker was better as the villain Bayban than he was as the 6th Doctor and also one female B7 told me she thought Colin Baker would have made an awesome Blake had Gareth Thomas not been cast in the role of Blake when the series was devised. I suppose Colin Baker could have played Blake in B7 in place of Gareth Thomas and had that been the case in an alternate time line then I think Colin Baker had he been cast as Blake would have stayed with the series for as long as it was running on tv and also it is possible there might have been multiple series of B7 and I cannot had Blake stayed for series 3 of B7 have seen Tarrant ever joining the crew of the Liberator because they would be no need for Tarrant to have been in the Liberator crew had we kept Blake.