"The Web"
CALLY: (Touching her temple) It has left her. Blake, that could've been one of the Lost.
BLAKE: Well, don't be mystical Cally. Explain.
CALLY: It is the legend of my people. They were cast out. Unfit to share the soul of Auronar.
SAYMON: We were from Auron. There were six of us when we set off on this project. Unfortunately our
knowledge was not far enough advanced then to eliminate death. But we did possess the power to keep alive
our thoughts and ideas. The bodies reverted but the minds lived on.
BLAKE: Cally's people. The Auronar.
SAYMON: Yes. We were from the Auronar, but not of them as Cally is.
BLAKE: That's why you were able to control her.
SAYMON: That is why we had to control her. She would not have accepted us freely.
TELEPATHIC ABILITES
"The Web"
BLAKE: I know we can. Whatever's down there can control you. It's already demonstrated that.
CALLY: I was unprepared.
"Shadow"
VILA: But, where did Cally fit in? Why did it attack you, Cally?
CALLY: I was a threat to it. I knew it was there because of my telepathy.
Orac uses special communication waves, which pass into another dimension. And it is the same dimension that allows thought transference.
JENNA: Orac's telepathic?
CALLY: No, telepathy is conscious. Orac has no consciousness in that dimension. He merely...drives a beam though it. Which is why he could be controlled by this force.
BLAKE: And why you couldn't, you fought it telepathically.
CALLY: Yes. Once the moon discs had broken through my isolation; as soon as I was no longer alone I could fight it.
VILA: But what about the key? How did you get Orac's key while he was up here and you were down there? Long arms?
BLAKE: Telekinesis.
VILA: Who?
AVON: The power to move objects by thought alone. That seems unlikely.
CALLY: Yes, it does. Even among my people such power is rare. Maybe...the moon discs. Their telepathy gave me courage. Perhaps it gave me strength, too.
Incidentally, in "Shadow," Cally acquires a pet moon disk.
"Horizon"
CALLY: [To Avon] I think they're in trouble.
AVON: You just think so?
CALLY: I feel it.
CALLY: They aren't dead.
AVON: How do you know?
CALLY: I know.
AVON: Yes.
CALLY: I tell you, I know.
Also in "Horizon," Cally pretends to Ro that she is clairvoyant, making useof information she obtained from Orac.
Cally puts telepathic messages to good use in "Shadow" and "Volcano," among others.
SKILLS (PILOTING)
"Project Avalon"
CALLY: ...and holding. Orbital drift compensators?
GAN: Activated.
JENNA: Confirm position and status.
ZEN: All systems confirm instrument readings. Orbit is established, status is firm.
JENNA: [To Cally] Very impressive. I think I might have taught you too well.
Cally was familiar with the work of other rebel groups.
"Project Avalon"
CALLY: You [Avalon] just rest for a while. Perhaps we could talk later. I've admired your work for the resistance for a long time.
AURON HISTORY
"Dawn of the Gods"
TARRANT: How close were we going to Auron, Cally?
CALLY: Well, you know how close.
TARRANT: It's just that if the Aurons are responsible for this, I wonder what it is you did to upset them before you left.
CALLY: I'll tell you sometime. Anyway, Tarrant, this is not the doing of my people. For one thing they're not hostile and for another they haven't developed the traction beam.
DAYNA: Do they all have your telepathic powers, Cally?
CALLY: Some, to a degree, but our powers are limited. I've never made any secret about--
DAYNA: What about telekinetic powers, the ability to exert a force at a distance? Maybe that's a secret you've kept.
AVON: There seems little point in blaming the Aurons for our troubles when we are nowhere near Auron.
THAARN: (V.O.) You came, Cally. I have waited for the time that light takes to cross a thousand galaxies.
I knew that someone would come.
CALLY: Who are you?
TARRANT: It's alright, Cally. You'll be fine.
THAARN: (V.O.)I am the Thaarn, Cally.
CALLY: The Tharn?
TARRANT: Cally, it's me, Tarrant. Can you hear me?
THAARN: (V.O.) Do you remember stories they told you about me?
When you were a little girl on Auron? Do you remember the children's rhymes?
The songs you sang about the Thaarn?
CALLY: I remember.
TARRANT: You were raving about the 'tharn' or something.
CALLY: Why would I talk about a mythical creature in children's stories?
DAYNA: You tell us.
CALLY: Well, it seems absurd. The Thaarn is as mythical to me as dragons and unicorns are to the people of Earth.
VILA: Tell us about the Thaarn, Cally.
CALLY: It's the oldest story in the Book of Auron.
VILA: Well, let's hear it. I like a good story, meself.
CALLY: The story goes back to the mists of Time, to the Dawn of the Gods. There were seven gods who discovered the planet Auron, and on it left the first man and woman. A million years went by. The gods returned. They were no older even though a million years had past.
AVON: Not impossible if they had a spaceship capable of traveling at near the speed of light.
CALLY: I did say it was just a legend. The gods returned and were pleased with what they saw, and they bestowed on the people of Auron great gifts: new types of crops, which ended hunger, constant peace--
TARRANT: And telepathy?
CALLY: --and telepathy was promised. But one of the gods was very jealous. He didn't believe that the people of Auron deserved all this. He was frightened they would one day become so powerful they would challenge the supremacy of the gods themselves. And in his rage, he killed another god. The five remaining gods were so angry, they built a chariot for him and sent him beyond the threshold of space and time. The mad god swore a terrible vengeance. He said that he would return again. He said that he alone would discover the eternal secrets and become the one great master of the universe. You see? A legend.
VILA: He sounds the sort of character you should keep an eye on, not go around banishing. CALLY: On Auron, the name of the Thaarn is a symbol of darkness and evil.
"Harvest of Kairos"
CALLY: Avon, I can't.
AVON: Concentrate.
CALLY: It's my mother, my father. I don't know.
AVON: Cally, your mother and father are dead. It is an illusion. Tell yourself that this is a rock.
At this point in the series, I do not think it had been revealed that Cally is a clone; of course, she and Zelda and possibly others may have beencloned from a single child born (in vivo or in vitro) of two parents.
"Children of Auron"
AVON: The trouble with the people of Auron is that they all suffer from a superiority complex.
VILA: You should get on well with them, then.
AVON: Too good to become involved with the rest of humanity.
CALLY: That's not true. Just because we happen to be neutral doesn't necessarily--
AVON: Neutrality or passivism, it all boils down to the same gutless inanity.
CALLY: You're wrong.
VILA: "Gutless inanity." I like it. What's it mean?
CALLY: Some of us wanted to participate in galactic affairs.
AVON: Yes?
CALLY: Yes.
DAYNA: So what happened? Were you overruled?
AVON: The great passive majority psyched them into line.
Telepathic communion is a wonderful thing. [Smiles]
CALLY: I joined a group of freedom fighters.
TARRANT: On Auron?
CALLY: No, defending the planet Saurian Major from the Federation.
TARRANT: The Federation won, of course.
CALLY: Yes. I do try, though. We're not all gutless, you see.
VILA: And the Aurons punished you for your defiance, didn't they?
TARRANT: Were you exiled?
CALLY: Yes. Why do you imagine I've never gone back? Affection for him?
Note that this account is somewhat different from that given in "Time Squad."
CLONING
"Children of Auron"
SERVALAN: They are. The man who perfected the process, Franton, achieved spontaneous cell differentiation.
DERAL: No need for fertilisation.
SERVALAN: That's right. Pure genetic replication.
DERAL: Your own cells, unmated. One parent only.
This contradicts what Cally says about her parents in "Harvest of Kairos,"unless they were adoptive parents.
FRANTON: You and Cally are from the same sibling group, aren't you?
ZELDA: Yes, Cally's my twin.
FRANTON: Identical brain scan.
ZELDA: Optimum telepathic affinity.
The Aurons do not use the word "clone" at all in this episode.
AVON: Can we trust them?
CALLY: Yes. Zelda would never trick me.
VILA: Zelda?
DAYNA: Her identical sibling.
VILA: Eh?
DAYNA: There are plenty more like her on Auron, apparently.
ORAC: Reproduction by Clinician Franton's method of group cloning has resulted in highly developed psychic faculties, telepathy being the most obvious example. These faculties are, of course, limited to the young since cloning was developed relatively recently.
"Sarcophagus"
AVON: [to Cally] What is it?
CALLY: What?
AVON: You picked up on something.
CALLY: No. How could I? I'm an Auron. The only message I can receive is from one of my own people.
AVON: I know.
DAYNA: But you're still psi-developed, Cally. You can read minds sometimes. Did you?
Note that it is Tanith Lee, a science fiction/fantasy writer, who admitsthe possibility of Cally being able to read the minds of non-telepaths.
Post-mortems
"Rescue"
Avon: He who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken. Cally once told me that that was a saying amongst her people.
Dorian: Cally?
Avon: Cally was murdered. So were most of her people.
"Sand"
SOOLIN: Let's imagine the three of you have come under a malign, psychic influence. To use antiquated terminology, a curse.
DAYNA: Well, why us and not you?
SOOLIN: Before my time.
VILA: What are you getting at?
SOOLIN: I seem to recall you telling me of an alien trying to take over the Liberator
through Cally. Avon killed it. Psi powers, a negative influence left behind-- [Thunder]
DAYNA: Oh, and thunder right on cue. This is silly.
SOOLIN: Is it? The indestructible Liberator was destroyed, and Cally died.
VILA: Why don't you just shut up! What the hell do you know about any of that?
AVON: Do you believe anything of what you've just said?
SOOLIN: Not one word.
Cally.
