Trance tries her hand at piloting slipstream
but the crew of the Andromeda end up back in time to a point just before a
great Nietzchean vs Commonwealth war. The crew face the dilemma of whether or
not to contribute to the Commonwealths efforts. Harper takes things into his
own hands and creates a device that will destroy a majority of the approaching
Nietzchean fleet but Trance catches him and tells Dylan.
When Rommie detects that the approaching
array is 500 times bigger than history tells, Dylan realises that they have
already changed the timeline and must use Harper's device to even out the
battle.
~*~
Review
It seems a little unlikely that
Dylan would return to his time (more or less), let alone so easily as to come
across it in Slipstream. Nevertheless, they managed it and faced the dillema of
whether or not to interfere with history.
Harper takes matters into his own
hands, behind Dylans back, because of his hatered for the Nietzcians and the
fact that he believes that he'll save millions of lives by killing off half the
Nietzcian fleet. This is another little insight into Harper's character.
Time
travel is always confusing, no matter which route you take. There is of course,
the cause and effect way of thinking where everything you do, no matter how
small will affect the future. And then there's the 'you can't change the past'
ploy, which is which route this episode took. Even though Dylan stopped Harper's
plan, he discovered that he had already done it, and so they must do it again.
Like I said - confusing.
