The essential episodes of Andromeda
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Andromeda — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The Commonwealth vessel Andromeda, captained by Dylan Hunt, in a last ditch effort to avoid a trap, maneuvers toward a nearby black hole.Time dilation near the black hole slows time for the Andromeda and Dylan until a freighter tows it out 300 years later. Dylan now must fight off the band of scavengers attempting to claim his ship as salvage.
- 02
Trance tries to pilot the Andromeda through slipstream and the crew travels back to a time just before the Commonwealth fell.
- 03
The Magog larvae in Harper's belly are close to hatching. Harper and Höhne work on a device to bend time and space to extract them.
- 04
When the Knights of Genetic Purity start attacking a cluster of Nietchean prides, Andromeda tries to stop them.
- 05
Tunnel at the End of the Light
Dylan is hosting the signing of the New Commonwealth charter on board the Andromeda when they are attacked by a Pandimensional Species. Ships coming from another universe through a dimensional tunnel fight the Andromeda and Nietzschean and Commonwealth fleets. Beka and Tyr try to close the tunnel by launching a Nova bomb from the Maru.
- 06
After Dylan receives a package and takes Harper on a secret mission, he becomes a wanted man.
- 07
While being chased by Ogami, the Maru is rescued by the Bellerophon, a long lost starship from Earth.
- 08
Trance sees a probable future that results in the deaths of the entire crew and the destruction of the Andromeda.
- 09
On their way to the launching of the first new Commonwealth starship in over three hundred years, Dylan, Beka, and Tyr warn of an incoming Nietzschean battle group. Their suspicions that there is an agent on board the starship are confirmed when it is destroyed. Survivors in escape pods discover that the pods are leaking air.
- 10
Shadows Cast by a Final Salute
Tyr has convinced the Nietcheans he is the genetic reincarnation of Drago Museveni, the progenitor of his race. He forces Dylan to choose between saving the Andromeda crew or the Drago-Katzoff pride.
- 11
Andromeda captures a smuggler with a shipment of bioarmor. They try to track down the origins of the armor, but there's more to the armor than they first realize.
- 12
The Dissonant Interval: Part 1
The Andromeda rescues a defenseless ship from former Commonwealth fighters. The occupants are an ambassador and his pilot, returning to Arkology from successful peace negotiations with the Magog on board the World-Ship.
- 13
The Dissonant Interval: Part 2
With the Magog World-Ship at hand, Dylan must defend Arkology as one of the Paradine, beings said to have witnessed the creation of the universe.
- 14
As Trance's sun closes on Seefra-9, Doyle rebuilds Rommie to help evacuate the planet.
- 15
The Heart of the Journey: Part 2
Analyzing fragments of the destroyed Earth, Romy finds radical isotopes, proof that the Abyss aided the Nietzscheans in the destruction of the planet.
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