AN AFFIRMING FLAME
The Eureka Maru crew start to think they're on the wrong side and decide to team up with Dylan to take his ship back.
Having released a rogue Nietzchean and his cyborg posse on the Andromeda, Dylan tries his best to defend Andromeda from the invaders.
Trance Gemini, one of the Maru's crew, decides to stand up for herself and wants to leave. This bad move gets her shot and killed by Gerentex. Seamus Harper is prepared to end the matter there and then but Beka Valentine, their captain, decides that if they're going to outwit Gerentex, they have to do it with intelligence, not brute force - or gunfire as it were.
Trance is a tricky one though - and shortly comes back to life! When the battle is finally over Dylan asks each of the Beka's crew and Tyr to join him in restoring the Commonwealth. They all accept.
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Review
The very first episode of
Andromeda has all the key attributes to make a good pilot episode of a sci-fi
show. Space battles, fantastic ships, a fearless leader, deceit and chaos, as
well as humour and characters that you wish you knew in reality.
Dylan, the fearless leader I
mentioned before, is your classic run of the mill hero, honourable to the end,
which is why he is one of the few that remain onboard the Andromeda after the
rest of the crew has fled.
Andromeda is an original
character and that makes her intriuging. 'Andromeda' attempts to explore the
living persona of a ship theory furthur than it has been taken before.
Beka and her crew seem like a
nice enough group, a little rag-tag maybe but they are scavengers, for lack of a
better word. We get the idea that Beka might be longing for something more than
command of a cargo ship and as we know, she'll get it.
Basically, I can't seem to fault this episode. Although I did feel that the reasons for Dylans new found crew to join the ship seemed a little thin.
