Redemption 09

Redemption '09 was the absolute best as I was Pruple Drazi Leader and Simon was Green. Sarah looked after us as usual.

Sarah and I went as Zee and Bar from Blake's 7 as well and Lyta and Talia from Babylon 5. I entered the chaos costume as The Liberator and sang in the cabaret. The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets were the cabaret highlight.

This is my report on Redemption '09

Redemption 07

I did go to Redemption '05, but somehow never got round to reporting it, so here's Redemption '07

Simon, Sarah and I went together again and this time Simon ran for Ruler Of The Universe as Kosh.

This is my report on Redemption '07

Redemption 03

I went to Redemption '03 with Sarah and Simon again. This one had to be the ultimate convention. How could this be a more fun convention than the last? Well, I think it's down to a wonderful collection of guests who mucked in, socialised and had as much fun as everybody else.

Damian London, the Regent from Babylon 5 came all the way from America and was charming, interesting and great fun to be with. Tanith Lee, author and writer of two B7 scripts was a delight and Mike Collins, comic book artist, was great fun. Chris Boucher, editor and writer for B7 (we managed to miss meeting him but everybody else said what a nice chap he is). Simon and I spent day 1 in our Centauri outfits which impressed the Regent. We entered the fancy dress as a Vorlon and Jool from Farscape respectively. Simon won the space rats remote control car race (by being the only entrant unfortunately) and came either equal second or third (I can't remember which) with another Vorlon in the masquerade.

I spent day 2 dressed as Jool from Farscape and Simon dressed as a Victorian gent.

I won the great tribble hunt and so gave Drazi points to my great Drazi leader (purple) who won, mainly because the perfidious green Drazi leader used his Drazi points to buy votes in the ruler of the Universe competition (which he won).

This is my report on Redemption '03
This is Simon's

Redemption 01

I went to Redemption '01 with Sarah and Simon. Much better prepared this time, Simon and I had managed to see two series of Babylon 5 and now understood the the concept of the Drazi war. This war runs throughout the convention, so everyone is given either a blue or green badge and both sides compete in many silly competitions (fancy dress, limericks, door decoration, cricket ...) to gain Drazi points for their leader.
Simon made a Centauri costume for us both for the fancy dress competition. We had planned to do a tango across the stage but Simon had a bizarre ballroom dancing accident and managed to break his foot. So instead Vokator Tregayen Zekiye who was suffering from wounds received 'in action' (the specifics of which were classified, but it definitely wasn't gout) attended the fancy dress. Semra Zekiye, his wife who had given up her professional dance career in order to tend to her ailing husband, accompanied him. Semra got a bit carried away with the excitement and performed a few spins and shoulder shimmies before her husband dragged her from the stage.

Woo Hoo! We won the fancy dress competition!

This is my report on Redemption '01.

This is Simon's

Semra then did a quick change and danced in the cabaret (still bald).

Redemption 99

I went to Redemption '99 with my friend, Sarah. It was the first convention I'd ever gone to and since I'd only ever seen 3 episodes of Babylon 5, was a bit nervous of being out of my depth. (Drazi war? what's that?) No worries though, there was all sorts of stuff going on and everybody was very friendly.
I managed to win the writing competition with my Blake's 7 play

'Destroying the Evidence'

I also danced in the cabaret (my very first choreography).