Dayna Mellanby

Dayna Mellanby is one of the tritagonists of the third and fourth seasons of Blake's 7.
She was portrayed by Josette Simon. For BBC Radio, she was voiced by Angela Bruce, and for Big Finish, she was voiced by Yasmin Bannerman.
==Biography==
Born on Earth, Dayna was brought to Sarran by her father Hal Mellanby as a baby and raised alongside Lauren, a native girl she had adopted. She seemed unaware that her father had been an opponent of the Federation, believing they had simply wanted independence. Despite her father's pacifist tendencies, they worked as weapons designers and Dayna developed a fondness for all forms of weapons, including the bow and arrow. When Kerr Avon crashed on the planet in the aftermath of the Galactic War, Dayna rescued him from the natives and took him and a similarly stranded Servalan to their underground bunker. However, this led to Servalan killing her father in an attempt to steal Orac, while Lauren was killed by the natives. Dayna ended up evacuating to the Liberator with Avon only to find it in the hands of Federation troopers led by Del Tarrant. In fact, Tarrant was a deserter and helped Avon and Dayna defeat the others, with Dayna personally killing Section Leader Klegg. Avon formally inducted her into the ship's crew.
With the Federation having virtually collapsed, the Liberator crew was left rather aimless. Dayna helped contact Hower, an old friend of her father's, in an attempt to form a base on his planet, Obsidian, but this ended with Hower destroying the planet rather than face Federation subjugation. Dayna was often heavily involved in the crew's adventures, such as insisting on fighting Ven Jarvik for her teleport bracelet, taking out several of Bayban the Butcher's men with a mobile bomb and preventing Servalan's takeover of the Liberator at Auron. During Servalan's attempt to annex the planet Teal and Vandor, Dayna used her blood feud with Servalan as an excuse to disrupt a medical examination that would have exposed Vandor champion Vinni as a robot and started a war.
When Avon took the ship to the artificial planet Terminal without explanation, Dayna remained on the Liberator with Vila and witnessed the ship's degeneration as a result of fluid particles attacking the hull. It turned out that Avon had been manipulated by Servalan, who stranded the crew on Terminal only to be apparently killed when the Liberator blew up. Avon, Vila, Tarrant and Dayna escaped the planet aboard another ship, Scorpio, and survived the attempt by its pilot, Dorian, to form them into a gestalt to serve as a receptacle for his impurities. The group, including new recruit Soolin, took control of Scorpio and Dorian's base on Xenon.
Dayna joined Tarrant in investigating the Federation's reconquest of Helotrix, where they helped the local rebels carry out a raid and learned Servalan was still alive. Not long after, Dayna encountered Servalan again during an attempt to recruit her former tutor and secret love, the scientist Justin, to help the rebels. Dayna was brainwashed by Servalan into helping capture Justin in an attempt to gain his secret of creating radiation-proof animals. She was rescued by her crewmates but was left devastated by Justin's death, another person she loved killed by Servalan.
She continued to take part in further adventures such as the crew's attempt to recover feldon crystals, their mission to Virrn (where she was quickly injured and forced to return to the ship) and their attempted theft of gold from Zerok. Avon's disastrous attempt at forming an alliance against the Federation nearly saw Dayna, Tarrant and Vila killed when they were left trapped in the wrecked Xenon base with an airborne radioactive virus.
Following the incident, Avon decided to head to Gauda Prime to recruit his former leader Roj Blake as a figurehead to unite the factions. However, Scorpio was destroyed in an attack by blockade ships. Dayna teleported to the surface with Vila and Soolin, and they were later joined by Avon, eventually tracking down Tarrant at a nearby base where he claimed Blake had betrayed them. In fact, it was a misunderstanding but Blake was killed by Avon before it could be cleared up. Ironically, it transpired one of Blake's new rebel group, Arlen, actually was a Federation officer. She held the group at gunpoint, and shot and apparently killed Dayna when she reached for a gun.
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