List of Andromeda Episodes - Episode List - Season 2 (2001–2002)

Season 2 (2001–2002)

He is the last guardian of a fallen civilization, a hero from another time. Faced with a universe in chaos, Dylan Hunt recruits an unlikely crew and sets out to reunite the galaxies. On the starship Andromeda hope lives again.

Season two begins with the crew of Andromeda in a seemingly hopeless situation. Dylan and Trance are revived by Beka, and Dylan goes to the Magog World ship with Rommie (the android avatar of Andromeda's AI) to recover Tyr, Harper and Rev. Harper is infested with Magog eggs, and Rev's loyalty is strained when he encounters the being the Magog call the Spirit of the Abyss. They believe it to be their creator and god. Although Dylan and Rommie rescue Tyr and Harper, Andromeda is badly damaged, Rev has a spiritual crisis, and there seems to be no possible way to extract the Magog larvae from Harper. A powerful drug will keep them dormant for a time, but it only delays the inevitable.

The season shows the crew reacting to the sudden necessity of the New Commonwealth after the discovery of the Worldship (which will arrive to the Known Worlds in a few years), as they continue to make sure the dream comes true. Many worlds became more willing to sign the charter after learning of the Worldship. Dylan becomes more ruthless in his actions as well.

The episode "Ouroboros" (2:12) in the middle of this season became a major turning point for the whole series. "Ouroboros" was the last episode by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, the show's original developer and head writer. The producers allegedly felt that the series was becoming too intellectual and complicated (see Controversy over Robert Hewitt Wolfe's departure). One immediately visible change was Trance's transformation. She exchanged places with her own future version; New Trance had a different (golden-skinned) appearance and much more serious personality.

"Behind the scenes", Brent Stait (Rev Bem) also left Andromeda in "Ouroboros" because of his developing allergy to Magog make-up. He reprises his role twice later, in seasons three and four.

In the second half of season two, restoration of the Systems Commonwealth becomes a much less significant theme. The show mostly concentrated on Star Trek-style standalone adventures. However, by the end of the season, the new Commonwealth had gained a new powerful war fleet and a total of fifty worlds. This period also saw Kevin Sorbo reunited with his Hercules co-star Michael Hurst for one episode.

Andromeda's Nietzschean crewman, Tyr Anasazi, is revealed to have a son, Tamerlane Anasazi, who is a genetic reincarnation of Drago Museveni, Founder and Progenitor of the entire Nietzschean Race. Since all the Nietzschean Prides believe that Drago Museveni's genetic reincarnation will necessarily be a great leader, the Nietzschean Messiah, Tyr Anasazi gets a unique opportunity to unite all the Nietzschean Prides. He does not use it yet, biding his time.

In the season finale the Systems Commonwealth is finally reinstated. A ceremony is held on board of the Andromeda, but interrupted by the attack of unknown extra-dimensional aliens.

No.	#	Title	Original air date	Production code
23	1	"The Widening Gyre"	October 1, 2001 (2001-10-01)	201
With the ship severely damaged and Tyr, Harper and Rev having been abducted, Dylan leads the crew of the Andromeda in battle against its deadliest enemy to rescue their captured crew-members. With help from Rev who pretended to join the Magog, the group escapes and Andromeda launches a nova-bomb into the Worldship. However, due to the actions of the Spirit of the Abyss, the Magog leader and creator, the Worldship survives though severely damaged while Andromeda gets away, also badly damaged. The World Ship is discovered to be heading to the Known Worlds and now the Commonwealth, once a dream, is a necessity to combat this threat.
24	2	"Exit Strategies"	October 8, 2001 (2001-10-08)	202
While Harper and Rommie try to cope with their recent 'violations' by the Magog, Dylan, Beka, Rev, and Tyr, pursued by a gang of Nietzscheans, are forced to make a crash landing on an icy planet, and must escape before Rev Bem's desire to feed either forces him to kill or causes his body to digest itself.
25	3	"A Heart for Falsehood Framed"	October 15, 2001 (2001-10-15)	203
The crew must steal a jewel being fought over by a greedy Drift-owner and the Than to organize a peace treaty, but matters become complicated when Beka develops a relationship with the security chief on the station, who is a former thief known as 'Schrödinger's cat'.
26	4	"Pitiless as the Sun"	October 22, 2001 (2001-10-22)	209
While Andromeda investigates mysterious attacks on an isolated, somewhat xenophobic Inari, Trance is interrogated by that same species as they try to determine her origins, blaming one of her kind for inciting a recent war.
27	5	"Last Call at the Broken Hammer"	October 29, 2001 (2001-10-29)	206
Dylan and crew attempt to find a long-lost Commonwealth leader and bring her back into the fold, but the question of her identity proves more complicated than it initially appears.
28	6	"All Too Human"	November 5, 2001 (2001-11-05)	204
While Rommie tries to save a defector from a planet that hates AI's, the Eureka Maru plunges deep into the ocean after being crippled, leaving Harper, Tyr and Rev struggling for survival as Dylan, Beka and Trance attempt to stop a Planet-destroying ship armed with Magog weapons.
29	7	"Una Salus Victus"	November 12, 2001 (2001-11-12)	207
With a deadly plague on the loose, Andromeda, captained by the inexperienced Harper while Beka seeks stragglers from the convoy, escorts medical ships through Drago-Kazov space while Dylan and Tyr try to stop the missile batteries trained on them.
30	8	"Home Fires"	November 19, 2001 (2001-11-19)	205
Andromeda discovers a planet of Commonwealth survivors and descendants gathered together by Dylan's former fiancé after the Commonwealth fell, including the genetic reincarnation of Dylan's first officer Rhade, but when the election to rejoin the Commonwealth goes against Andromeda's crew, an apparent Magog attack raises several questions.
31	9	"Into the Labyrinth"	November 26, 2001 (2001-11-26)	208
Another agent of the Abyss tries to tempt Harper to join the Magog god by removing some of his larvae, as the crew battles more tesseracting villains.
32	10	"The Prince"	January 19, 2002 (2002-01-19)	210
Dylan and Tyr are appointed the aides to a Prince after the rest of his family is killed in a civil uprising on his planet, but they find themselves facing significant challenges from the revolting nobles while trying to reinstate his rule and negotiate a peaceful settlement.
33	11	"Bunker Hill"	January 26, 2002 (2002-01-26)	211
Dylan and his makeshift Commonwealth fleet, consisting of the Sabra-Jaguar pride, engage the Drago-Kazov fleet while Harper and Rommie return to Earth to start an insurrection, but matters are complicated when Dylan finds the fleet to be larger than he expected.
34	12	"Ouroboros"	February 2, 2002 (2002-02-02)	212
After Rev Bem departs to try to find himself, Harper, running out of time before the Magog hatch, must build a Teseract Machine to remove them with Houne's help, unintentionally triggering 'ripples' from the future that cause parts of Andromeda to start shifting to other time periods and culminate in Trance being replaced by her future self.
35	13	"Lava and Rockets"	February 9, 2002 (2002-02-09)	213
Dylan outruns dangerous mercenaries by kidnapping a Tourist barge and her pilot, while Tyr and Rommie must put aside their differences to find Dylan before the mercenaries do, leaving Harper to try to adapt to the "new" Trance.
36	14	"Be All My Sins Remembered"	February 16, 2002 (2002-02-16)	216
When Dylan, Beka and Harper are called to identify the body of Beka's lost crewmate Bobby Jensen, they discover that he is actually alive and seeks to force the Andromeda to help end a revolution that he started after he left the Maru.
37	15	"Dance of the Mayflies"	February 23, 2002 (2002-02-23)	214
The Andromeda is pursued by the Than after they rescue dying people from a drift, but when the victims come back as the walking dead, it is revealed that they are under the control of a hive-mind-entity known as the Bokur that infects and kills its victims. With Beka infected and Trance being used as a vessel to communicate, Dylan, Rommie and Harper must race against time to discover a defence and save their friends before they are all infected.
38	16	"In Heaven Now Are Three"	March 2, 2002 (2002-03-02)	215
Dylan, Beka, and Trance attempt to attain the mystic 'Engine of Creation', capable of rewriting the universe according to the designs of whoever possesses it, before someone else gets it, resulting in a brief encounter between Trance and another of her species.
39	17	"The Things We Cannot Change"	April 13, 2002 (2002-04-13)	221
During an investigation of a black hole, Dylan is blown out into space and finds himself married with a son in a world where there are no Magog and the Commonwealth is still intact (albeit falling from prolonged war). Episode is a clip show
40	18	"The Fair Unknown"	April 20, 2002 (2002-04-20)	217
Dylan, Trance and Rommie must rush to save a Vedran, the long-lost founders of the Commonwealth, from the deadly Caldarens, but her demands after her rescue place Dylan in a difficult position.
41	19	"Belly of the Beast"	April 27, 2002 (2002-04-27)	219
A mythical Planet-eating space creature turns out to be fact when it attempts to eat the Andromeda, with only Dylan and Trance in the Eureka Maru available to save the day as Rommie begins to shut down and the ship begins to dissolve.
42	20	"The Knight, Death, and the Devil"	May 4, 2002 (2002-05-04)	218
While Dylan embarks on a quest to liberate captured ships of the High Guard from imprisonment with the help of their AI's, hampered by their unwillingness to become the slaves that they feel they would become if they gained captains once more, Beka is forced to convince the potential fiftieth planet in the New Systems Commonwealth to sign the charter without Dylan to win them over.
43	21	"Immaculate Perception"	May 11, 2002 (2002-05-11)	220
When Tyr races to save his wife and her colony from attack by the Genites, humans opposed to genetically-engineered humans (a particular problem as that includes almost all of the crew of Andromeda), he discovers that not only is he a father, but that his son may be the foretold genetic reincarnation of Drago Mussevni.
44	22	"Tunnel at the End of the Light"	May 18, 2002 (2002-05-18)	222
Mysterious beings begin attacking delegates at the final Commonwealth Charter signing that will determine the First Triumvant, but when Trance reveals that this crisis resulted in the destruction of Dylan's dream of a renewed Commonwealth, the crew must find a way to win a fight that they lost against in Trance's future.