• Trance has a spectacular top on. =)

• 9:50 -- So you're telling me that after 300 years nobody fell in love and had kids?
• 13:50 -- Ooh, that Captain was a baddie in Dark Angel - (2000 show).
• 26:45 -- So why aren't they going around doing something about the androids? Hmm.. well I guess they had time for 4-5.
• 40:00 -- Now everyone go on a salvage-run for spare parts!

• 4:01 -- Intergalactic freemasons?
• Trance has a fantastic bounce in this episode. =)

• 35:00 -- Did they take the pocket nuke with them? How would she perform the mass-assassination?

• 20:16 -- Reuse of footage!

• 2:45 --

  • Cynicism
  • Cynicism (philosophy)
  • Optimism
  • Pessimism
• 4:00 -- I hope nobody is in those cargo bays..
• 5:15 -- Strategic weapon
• 10:45 -- All those people casually walking to abandon the ship..
• 11:15 -- Wouldn't he get put in an escape pod?
• 12:45 -- Banzai!
• 15:00 -- Treaty (Peace treaty)
• 16:45 -- Wouldn't snapping a bone blade off hurt? I mean, wouldn't it be difficult at least?
• 30:30 -- Roman candle (firework)
• 33:30 -- bought the farm
• 34:15 -- They should also worry about the nano drone attack thingies..
• 36:45 -- Or maybe they should not poke their noses around and instead stay paranoid..

• 39:45 -- Over 300 years? No, it would have been almost 300 years.

likely from 2016-01-04:

If the Commonwealth's High Guard had a weakness, it was this: Its officers were too competent, too caring and too brave.
-- Yin Man-Wei
The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth C.Y. 11942

• 1:00 -- Finally, a show with a proper population.
• "Nietzscheans", see Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 3:05 --

Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

• 3:50 -- A rogue black hole? How is that a thing?
• 5:50 -- Boy is that intro a spoiler.
• 8:10 -- Take the Japanese to the brig-- urr, I mean Nietzscheans.
• 9:05 -- Noooo, random redcoat number one!!

• 15:30 --

You have sown the wind, you shall reap the whirlwind.

from the Hebrew Bible, Hosea 8-7:

"They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind."

• 19:10 -- Oh gods, Lisa Ryder is fucking ugly.
• 21:15 -- Shangri-La
• 21:55 -- "Mudfoot", like "land lubber", or land-bound.
• 23:30 -- Absolution
• A.G. = Anti-gravity
• 28:45 -- Wouldn't the first thing the ship or its drones do is destroy their cargo ship? Well I suppose the drones are gone and the ship is too damaged.
• 31:50 -- Over 300 years.
• 34:35 -- Durer, Parthenon, Harley-Davidson
• 40:20 -- Spanned 3 galaxies, over a million member worlds.

• 41:00 -- Perhaps offer him a cut of the salvage.

Old notes from between 2006-10-16 and 2007-09-02:

• 28:20 -- You see, the thing with time dilation is that the cables would experience time dilation and not really get there on any sort of zippy timetable. Let alone magically wrap and tie themselves in knots.
• 40:40 -- "He's like.. some kind of Greek god, or something." is a nod to that actor's role in Hercules - The Legendary Journeys - (1995-1999 show).

• 0:10 -- Narration.
• Eureka Maru. "Maru" is a Japanese ship-naming convention

• 0:50 --

Some say the Commonwealth would have fallen even without Nietzschean trechery. They underestimate both the Commonwealth and the Nietzscheans. -- Yin Man-Wei The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth C.Y. 11942

• 6:00 -- "Wayist" is a religious denomination in this show's universe.
• 13:30 -- "Violence begets violence"
• 18:05 -- Cyberspace! Kekeke..
• 18:45 -- Glaston's voice is so dumb.
• 20:05 -- .. and the escape pod takes a dive into the black hole.
• 22:10 -- I don't remember seeing the other rat-face.
• 27:00 -- 40 nova bombs.

• 27:30 --

"If you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you"

from Friedrich Nietzsche:

"Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehen, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."

translated as:

"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you."

• Black hole, event horizon, gravitational singularity
• 29:40 -- Big Bang
• 33:00 -- "Thrones", I don't know if that's related to the celestial Thrones in Christian mythology.

• 34:45 --

For every action, there is an equal, and opposite, reaction. -- Newton's laws of motion, action-reaction law

• 35:00 -- Who's the spare extra they're fighting?
• 35:15 -- Paralytic poison.
• 36:45 -- Life pods can last a couple of months.
• 38:35 -- What the hell is with Becka's stance?

• 40:55 --

"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to lean history correctly-- why they are simply doomed." -- Archem Dro'hm "The Illusion of Historical Fact" -- C.Y. 4971

Partly from George Santayana, The Life of Reason:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

• 0:15 -- GS 92196
• 3:20 -- Boy are those kids gullible. Anyone could have claimed all that.
• 5:00 -- See, now the intro narration makes sense.
• 16:30 -- He's creeping around, what could possibly go wrong?
• 23:00 -- I still have no idea how the station could survive unsalvaged. They don't have any fighters. The place does appear valuable to salvage.
• Oh, and regarding "peace through murder".. see also jihad.
• 26:00 -- (bang) nope, just one hour.
• 26:35 -- Why would Dillan leave what's his name alone?
• 29:30 -- Pancreas. Also, she's so adorable.
• 38:10 -- So it's just that easy to whip up a sexbot?
• 39:30 -- Oh gods she's so pretty.
• 40:45 -- See also Firefly - (2002 show) and the purely professional relationship between Inara and Malcolm.
• 42:00 -- 1 nova bomb.

(Countdown, and not signed zero)

"Here's everything I know about war: Somebody wins, somebody loses, and nothing is ever the same again." -- Admiral Constanza Stark C.Y. 9784

• 0:10 -- Basketball
• 0:55 -- Personal foul (basketball)
• 1:00 -- "Code Black".
• 1:40 -- A mine field.
• 2:10 -- The Eightfold Path. See Noble Eightfold Path.
• 2:10 -- Andromeda The Eightfold Path worked together during the Famine relief of Sculptor(?) 119.
• 2:40 -- The Eightfold Path was a Mercy Class Medical Support Ship.
• 2:55 -- Unfired tubes? Not salvaged. Trap.
• 3:05 -- Called it. Does calling it count when it's so soon after noticing it? Probably not. Have I already said this? Probably.
• 4:10 -- Radioactive residue. That doesn't sound good. That sounds like being painted.
• 5:45 -- The ship seems pretty vulnerable.
• 6:15 -- Why does the pilot seat move?
• 7:55 -- What the fuck does Becka know about fighting, let alone with a warship?
• 8:15 -- D Minus Zero is described.
• 9:10 -- The residue was for targeting. Called it.
• 9:10 -- Dillan's ex wife? Also some sort of additional feel feels from the ship.
• 10:00 -- Napoleon
• 10:10 -- Actually, military skills are quite portable.
• 11:45 -- Some sort of heist of stuff they took for a spin.
• 13:15 -- Couldn't they mimic the radiation to create a copy or dummy or something?
• 15:30 -- If they are no longer painted, and the enemy doesn't have active sensors on, then are they being detected because of their own active sensors?
• 16:20 -- Will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
• 17:25 -- "We came, we saw, we got spanked" is from Veni, vidi, vici.
• 19:00 -- I love his acting.
• 23:00 -- FMS, "Fuck Me Switch"
• 24:30 -- "Blind and crippled. If Andromeda were my child, I'd drown it." -- Tyr
• 24:50 -- LS = Light-second
• 25:50 -- "Bucky cables". See Buckminsterfullerene
• 27:00 -- Becka is still acting first officer, and apparently has the power to engage "privacy mode" to bar Andromeda from an area. That sounds bad.
• 30:10 -- If the FMS were used in battle, why aren't there already a bunch on board? Perhaps they should have been introduced, and all used up, in the pilot episode.
• 30:40 -- An immune system has nothing to do with radiation poisoning.
• 32:00 -- The little ship still has slipstream.
• 34:10 -- I just had a Firefly - (2002 show) moment in the Maru.
• 35:05 -- I thought the Maru couldn't fly without Becka's authorization anyway.
• 38:20 -- Why have the dimension-bending combat effects? That's nauseating.

(Nucleic acid double helix)

Machiavelli's ideas are basically sound ones for the Nietzschean people.

Unfortunately, he was an optimist.

-- Cerebus Khmer "Aphorisms" - C.Y. 8969

• 0:15 -- Establishing recharging.
• 0:30 -- Hot.
• 0:40 -- Also hot.
• 2:05 -- No, no gloves.. and no condom either.
• 2:20 -- Thaan. That's the bug people.
• 2:45 -- What the fuck is Becka saying? Eesh.

• 2:50 -- "Eternal life, grant unto them. And may perpetual light shine upon them."

  • Oh those death cults.
• 6:30 -- So she acts out the damage of the ship? Odd.
• 10:00 -- Didn't they take a Thaan ship on board? How come nobody heard from them?
• 10:55 -- Oh.
• 12:10 -- Why would Tyr be well-known?
• 14:10 -- Lineage (anthropology) and, for Nietzscheans Lineage (genetic).
• 17:10 -- Drago Museveni.
• 23:30 -- Why wouldn't Tyr respond? I think he's telling Dylan it's a plot.
• 27:00 -- That's a three-dimensional chess board.
• 27:15 -- Oh, that's Go (game)
• 27:35 -- He gives fair warning.
• An explanation of Nietzschean mentality.
• 38:30 -- I'm pretty sure they couldn't have left in time. So technically they could re-board and take the ship.
• 39:50 -- Freya will shortly be pregnant with Tyr's kid.
• 42:00 -- Called it. Also, I would keep the baby. Genetic diversity.
• 42:40 -- "With special thanks to IBM"? What?

The Heavens burned, the stars cried out
And under the ashes of infinity,
Hope, scarred and bleeding, breathed its last.

-- Ulatempa Poetess "Elegy for the Commonwealth" CY 9823

• 0:20 -- The explanation of slipstream.

  • 1:10 -- An observer and collapsing probability waves. It's a bullshit perspective using technobabble from quantum mechanics.
  • She looks like she did it on purpose.
• 5:40 -- She's confused about time and space.
• 6:30 -- Milky Way, IC 2118

• 6:50 -- The last stand of the Commonwealth.

  • Theodore Roosevelt of the starship Thermopylae (Battle of Thermopylae)
  • Admiral Ho Chi Minh of the Gunga Din pride, whose ship is The Shining Path.
  • Battled for 40 days and 40 nights (Lent)
  • Ramming, Kamikaze
• 9:20 -- Job security
• 9:35 -- The Renewed Valour, captain Garren Yesgar.
• 10:30 -- Admiral Stark
• 10:50 -- Time travel
• 12:00 -- The Vedren homeworld is cut off from the slipstream. Whatever that means.
• 14:20 -- Lesser of two evils principle
• How do they expect to intentionally time travel to return?
• 18:05 -- Oh I'd like to pound..
• 20:30 -- Crucifixion, Electric chair, Guillotine .. I looked them up.
• 23:20 -- So.. they'll be able to intentionally time travel to return. Theoretically.
• 25:55 -- Uh, yes they'd be looking.. in fact, since they're in "the perfect hiding spot", it occurs to me that .. it would also be the perfect ambush spot, wouldn't it? Well, for long-range backup or support or some such perhaps.
• 27:30 -- How can destiny demand action? That's ridiculous.
• 27:55 -- The Tyger, by William Blake
• 33:15 -- Occam's razor, which does not apply to this situation.
• 35:20 -- They're completely fucked to attack even a fraction of that fleet.
• 37:20 -- "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds", verse 32 from chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita.
• 40:00 -- They are back in CY 10,087. They have no real way to confirm what's going on.. if they are in an alternate future, etc.

• 42:00 -- Trance prunes a bush, describing her pruning a timeline.

Trance has some sort of confused knowledge of space and time, and navigation is a concern.

She intentionally time travels the ship to fuck with the timeline.

Many say living in the Way is difficult.
Is sleeping difficult?
Is waking?

Serenity Vikram Singh Khalsa
Collected Works,
301 AFC

• 0:30 -- Holy crap.
• 1:50 -- He's not military, so absence without leave doesn't mean anything.
• 2:30 -- How does that Wayist know about Andromeda?
• 4:35 -- That massive thing they're tracking him on seems harder to push around than a stretcher.
• 6:30 -- It wouldn't be hard for him to keep up the ruse.
• 7:00 -- Oh yeah, the religious people can go and pray and die instead of being saved by that crazy atheist science.
• 9:50 -- Called it.
• 11:20 -- ".. Valentines don't play long shots."
• 12:50 -- Noble Eightfold Path, Twelve-step program, Ten Commandments
• 15:15 -- She can pilot a slipfighter?

• 16:35 -- "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

  • This is a very old phrase whose source I was unable to reliably track down.
• 22:10 -- A little device, capable of blowing a ship up? No.
• 24:25 -- "Blessed be" is a phrase used in Wicca.
• 29:45 -- Hey look, free android.
• 31:30 -- What's with his extra side-roll?
• 33:00 -- How does one "steal access codes"?
• 35:50 -- The timing seems off. The Valentines didn't leave too long ago. They'd have to be at the half way point between the Andromeda and Restors.
• 36:20 -- Why would they destroy the ship when they have the codes? Wouldn't it be better to capture it?
• 40:50 -- So adorable.

(Lethe, one of the five rivers in the Greek underworld)

We say atoms are bound by
Weak Attractors.

Why not admit the Truth:
The universe is held together by Love.

Michio Von Kerr,
Wayist physicist,
CY 9942

• 0:20 -- Oh, it's blue dudes recycled from the previous episode.
• 2:45 -- That's not the same black hole, since it was more-or-less destroyed.
• 3:30 -- Hotness. Except for the thing on her left cheek.
• 6:30 -- He's in love with her.
• 9:20 -- "Even when you know no one is going to read it." was dubbed over. His lips weren't moving.
• 9:50 -- Werner Heisenberg
• 10:00 -- Mona Lisa
• 10:15 -- Quantum entanglement, has, as of 2015-10 been demonstrated as fact. Studies, including additional tests to try to disprove it, are ongoing.

• 10:30 -- Wave function

  • This was mentioned earlier.
• 11:05 -- Damn that's unsafe. It needs a shield or something.
• 15:50 -- I hate when media everywhere has this perception like time is one continuous thing.
• 18:30 -- Mea culpa ("Through my fault") -- Confiteor
• 19:10 -- Called it.
• 23:50 -- 12 hours of waiting? No problem.
• 24:00 -- Oh, problem.
• 24:40 -- Why not leave and return another day?
• 26:00 -- The Fountainhead (1945), by Ayn Rand
• 27:00 -- "Supergenius", done in that tone, is a quote from .. Duck Dodgers, I think.
• 28:15 -- She's right. Also, she's heartbreaking.
• 34:00 -- They have multiple people, can't each handle a squad?
• 39:00 -- It's been more than a minute. Much more.
• 39:20 -- What's that on his face, because it doesn't look anything like tear-wetness.
• 40:00 -- I think the bush-trimming and this scene confirm that time is one continuous thing in this show's universe.
• 40:30 -- It's been more than a minute.
• 41:20 -- See the thing about them joining the Commonwealth is that they joined the Commonwealth. Instant crew.

The truest measure of a society is
how it treats its elderly, its pets,
and its prisoners.

Keeper of the Way Vision of Faith VII
V.Y. 9891

• 0:45 -- Founding Fathers of the United States
• 1:10 -- A tattoo on the back of her left shoulder.
• 1:25 -- Oh god the makeup around her eyes is awful.
• 4:25 -- Perhaps, or great and smart ship, you should have mentioned you couldn't contact them.. the moment you couldn't contact them. It seems, I don't know, important.
• 4:50 -- I don't see why a Nietzschean could respond in such a manner. Diplomacy definitely has its place.
• 9:00 -- Obvious costume is obvious.
• 11:05 -- Nice work, except he tipped over how many meals worth of rations?
• 12:10 -- Is that what she was wearing underneath her uniform? Because Hunt got a jumpsuit.
• 13:20 -- He has an implanted comms device? Do they not check people out before throwing them into prison?
• 13:30 -- I guess she can't look at the stars without a proper map.
• 14:55 -- But she already has her meal.
• 16:15 -- No, criminal behaviour is not inherited.
• 16:35 -- Nature versus nurture
• 17:50 -- Doesn't Rommy have super strength or anything?
• 26:00 -- Galvanic cell
• 26:50 -- The commentary on privatized penal systems is applicable to the United States. Monopolized profit-incentivised prisons inevitably leads to shitty conditions and more legal influence means more prisoners.

• 31:20 -- Akin to Electroconvulsive therapy

  • Torture, which was mentioned earlier.
• 37:05 -- If he broke a neck with his bare hand, why would he pull a gun?
• 38:00 -- She moved her head. She can receive medical attention.
• 38:50 -- She could charge there, in the same manner that the warden(s) can.
• 39:50 -- No, I think she should go. Who in their right fucking mind would stay? And no, she can't do jack all.. the gangs are still there, as was mentioned earlier. The cycle of control will rotate. Also, why wouldn't the original rulers come back in force?

(Neptune)

"Democracy may be only a few steps removed from Anarchy,
but at least it's not as loud.

Crowned in Starlight
Than Hegemon, CY 9843

• 1:20 -- Security considerations would have been made in advance.
• 2:10 -- She's in boots.
• 4:00 -- Queue Trance.
• 4:10 -- Oh, I guess not.
• 5:20 -- What, he really does want to create a major incident?
• 11:10 -- Shameless Harper
• 12:00 -- Privacy Mode, always a bad idea.

• 12:30 -- Contrition

  • Superman, earlier.
• 13:15 -- Way to go Dillan, attacking the press. Free inquiry and all that.
• 13:50 -- Oh hey, this means the president was armed. Also, why was Tyr armed?
• 14:25 -- The ship is diplomatic territory in this case.
• 14:45 -- Witch-hunt
• 15:20 -- Capital punishment
• 16:45 -- When did Tyr have a force lance? He's always had a traditional gun, the same traditional gun he was introduced with.
• 16:50 -- So Andromeda can easily leave. If they wait they'll easily be outgunned.
• 18:30 -- So .. he does have a force lance now? Did I just miss his upgrade?
• 18:45 -- Tyr has "slight" experience in assassination.
• 20:00 -- There's good grounds that the former-chancellor now-president would be involved in the assassination. Also, Privacy Mode. Called it.
• 20:10 -- Tyr being hired for an assassination is somewhat viable.
• 20:40 -- "I'm sure you do." seems wrong. It should be "I'm sure you are."

• 20:50 -- The force lance is a light source, a scanner, a quarterstaff, a limbo bar.

  • And tiny drones, "effectors", smart bullets from a smart gun.
  • Force lances are genetically keyed to their owner, and shock another user.
• 20:45 -- I hate when things are so obvious. I know I've seen this before so I probably somehow remember how this went, but it already occurred to me that his lance discharged on its own. As soon as they mentioned the drones, it became obvious. However, manipulating them from the outside seems very difficult. Tyr would have to be knocked out and the lance tampered with. Possible plot hole.
• 23:30 -- First it was obvious that was a slave-tattoo. Second, tattoo-removal is not a new thing and is the first thing a newly former-slave would have done. I hope some sort of psychological justification would be described. I could see how she would keep it as a reminder, especially for the public.
• 25:50 -- Considering they have packs with water in their lungs, wouldn't frying them enough to knock them out also deliver enough power to damage their packs or send electricity right into their lungs?
• Also, earlier it was mentioned Humans can and were genetically engineered to suit environments, as with underwater breathing.
• 27:00 -- A force lance can be controlled remotely by voice, pulse laser, microwave transmission.
• 27:45 -- Wouldn't the ship have already reported a transmission like that? She's an AI and this seems awfully important.
• 31:25 -- With blood on the document, it means that was out.
• 32:00 -- Devil's advocate

• Get thee behind me, Satan.

  • The title is a biblical quotation, both from Luke 4:5-8 referring to the temptation of Jesus by Satan and from Matthew 16:23, spoken by Jesus to Saint Peter.
• 33:00 -- She can't be guilty if she has no motivation. If such an avatar were complicit, then wouldn't the entire ship be guilty, as the avatar is an extension of it? If so, wouldn't that go against it's captain's stated goals?
• 36:00 -- They're still live, aren't they? Harper is still acting like an idiot isn't he?
• 36:30 -- No, just no. He does not get to talk to anyone in private.
• 40:00 -- What republic? Who would be president now? Who would agree to it any day soon?
• 41:00 -- Planet two joins the republic.
• 41:15 -- Orestes, Oresteia, Apollo, Jury
• 42:00 -- But.. but.. he's some sort of Greek god or something.
• They kept the same bloodied document for signatures? The fuck?

Wealth is too Precious
to be entrusted
to the Rich.

Anonymous Kalderan Proverb,
circa CY 500

• 0:30 -- "...stand at pretencion." (pretence)
• 2:30 -- Solar storm. These, however, are associated with a star. Perhaps that will be clarified later.
• Trance is so so cute.
• 7:05 -- Or they could barter.
• 9:00 -- See also Gypsies (Romani people)
• 10:10 -- Handy huge bracer, has that already been introduced?
• 13:50 -- Why wouldn't he just have a subdermal implant like Hunt? Maybe the technology is gone .. somehow?
• 19:30 -- I would nuke systems, make them flee and steal the ship. Except if I were the crew I would expect that, not the sabotage but I would suspect that after being hit, and then I would set a trap and/or secure myself somehow.. remaining on the ship to re-take it.
• 21:10 -- Shoot him on sight.
• 21:45 -- Hey look, free woma-- oh, I guess no, not really.
• 22:25 -- I love that shot of the two of them.
• 23:40 -- Vodka
• 27:05 -- See also A Clockwork Orange (film).
• 28:00 -- Straight edge
• 30:10 -- Decaffeination
• 33:50 -- I wouldn't be happy if I were them. The boss would be really ticked to learn that his ticket to that data was dead.
• 40:15 -- She called him captain. She said she never would.

"If hope is the engine of the soul,
The duty is the navigator...
And love is the fuel."

High Guard Supreme Commander
San Nax Rifati
"Persuasions and Exhortations"
C.Y. 4279

• 1:21 -- AWOL = Absent Without Leave, a form of Desertion.
• "The brig" is a military prison
• 1:40 -- But there's nothing wrong with at least informing Hunt. Not asking, but informing, so he can work with them.
• 2:35 -- Oh god her shirt looks terrible.

• 5:25 -- Pax Magillanic

  • Glorious Heritage class cruiser.
• Why wouldn't they be hailing her, and attempting to remote-interface and all that good stuff?
• 10:00 -- What about all those ships that went hunting then went missing? Wouldn't they have slipstream drives?
• 10:40 -- Why not work with their crew?
• 11:00 -- He's not their captain though.. so what's the pecking order?
• 11:15 -- Why wouldn't everyone have already trained all the way up? It's been 300 years.
• 12:40 -- Now the Maru can talk.
• 13:50 -- Oh hey, I know that captain from Dark Angel (2000-2002)[doesn't exist]
• 17:35 -- Could they retrofit the Maru's slipstream drive? It doesn't need it at the moment.
• 18:30 -- Wait a second, doesn't the Magillanic have slipstream fighters? Wouldn't they be useful to, at least, get parts?
• 18:40 -- In the foreground is a Japanese rock garden
• 36:30 -- Ninja-android.
• 38:10 -- Richard Wagner
• 39:45 -- Would there be salvageable parts?
• 40:10 -- Why didn't they erase the AI?

KLUDGE (Klooj) - N. Disparaging
term for genetically unmodified
human being. See also "über"

A Concise Dictionary of Slang
and Euphemism
C.Y. 9021

(Kludge, Genetic engineering, Über)

• 2:00 -- That crash would have been quite a long ways away.
• 3:00 -- Amnesia
• 7:00 -- King Arthur, Guinevere, Saxons, Tax, Tribute, Merlin, Round Table
• 8:00 -- Andromeda has a cargo capacity of 10 million cubic meters.
• 8:15 -- That's a brilliant idea. Although it would be pretty easy for anyone to do, in small amounts.
• 8:30 -- Lancelot
• 8:40 -- Why wouldn't he go back to the ship to learn more about it and himself? Perhaps he wouldn't remember how to operate it, but perhaps the others there would. Maybe it would be locked out or some such.

• 10:30 -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), by Jules Verne

  • The Latin word for "no one", Nemo.
• 12:45 -- I recognize that actor from somewhere or other, though I'm not going to bother looking him up.
• 16:30 -- Nietzscheans have defensive nanobots.
• 17:00 -- Fishmonger (Fishwife)
• 19:00 -- See Decimation (Roman army).
• 22:00 -- Why not shoot them?
• 24:00 -- Handy that the crate has a carrying harness.
• 27:20 -- Why do they need him alive? Perhaps it's to unlock the crate, but there have to be other methods.. but maybe it's booby trapped.
• 30:40 -- Why would she know to go out looking for him?
• 31:40 -- Trap.
• 32:00 -- Called it.
• 38:40 -- I guess the nanobots weren't active any more.

• 39:30 -- Reinforcements would definitely torture or outright kill the two humans.

  • Oh, that was thought of. Good.
• 40:30 -- People die on a horrible slave planet too. A nice cushy ship is definitely an improvement.

"One head cannot
contain all Wisdom."
The Olduvai Cycle

Systems University Archives
C.Y. 8550

• 0:45 -- "Common" is a language.
• 1:50 -- A tricorder.
• How the fuck did that thing open the airlock and deposit itself inside? The Maru has security and stuff.
• 2:30 -- Poison gas leaks out. Roll credits.
• 5:00 -- Don't they have a doctor-type? A cute blue one?
• 5:25 -- There she is!
• 6:15 -- I think I know that actor.
• 8:15 -- An insignia from the special collections division of the All Systems University.
• 10:00 -- Irish language, French language
• 12:00 -- The song is She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
• 13:55 -- Wouldn't his.. escape pod also be reclaimed with the body?
• An enigma, wrapped up a riddle with a tail in the middle.
• 15:00 -- Possession is nine-tenths of the law
• Nightmare, Sleep disorder (Insomnia), Stroke, Cerebral hemorrhage
• 16:00 -- Bell X-1, Sound barrier
• 19:45 -- They're on a space ship. In space. How is the guy getting back and forth, and why isn't the crew questioning that and looking for a ship or something?
• 20:45 -- A point singularity projector. That's astounding.
• I would have fled long before now..
• 22:50 -- The Purple People Eater (1958), by Sheb Wooley
• 23:20 -- Erase it?
• 25:50 -- Why the fuck would Bem go near Harper?

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), by L. Frank Baum

  • Yellow brick road
  • See also The Wizard of Oz - (1939 movie)
• 30:45 -- That accent is from some character or other which John Wayne played in one of his various Westerns (movies).
• 31:00 -- Martini (cocktail), Shaken, not stirred
• 35:00 -- Pion, Ice crystals
• 36:50 -- Why would Tyr charge him instead of shooting him? Why wouldn't they plan for this moment and bring better guns?
• Why would the ship get hit and not have the missiles pass through like before?

(Forced perspective)

Humans say the Road to
Hell is paved with
good intentions.

Why? Do they think there's a
shortage of bad ones?

Karm'Luk P'An Ku,
"The Joy of Lucidity"
C.Y. 8633

• 0:20 -- I'm sure that somewhere out there, someone would like her.
• 1:00 -- Quit your bitching and focus on your form.
• .. where she lost her virginity.
• 2:25 -- He's being beat up by a motorcycle gang?

• 4:20 -- A logo reminiscent of the Square and Compasses, of Freemasonry fame. There's a pair of closeups at 8:00.

• 6:00 -- There's a guy in the background, who shouldn't be in listening range if they're talking about sensitive things. Maybe he came with her and has top-secret access. Or maybe that's the Nietzschean he shakes hands with.
• 6:50 -- Dillan Hunt, Commonwealth captain, HE5095C21922
• 7:20 -- Button, button, who's got the button? is a children's game. I don't know its origin.
• 8:15 -- "The great compass"
• 9:00 -- Again with other people in listening range.
• 10:30 -- Zapping him with taser-tricorders looks so stupid.
• 14:15 -- So they're doing this dance because they don't want to turn it off.

• Beyond Good and Evil (1886), by Friedrich Nietzsche

We are born sworn jealous friends of solitude
of our own deepest most midnight, most midday solitude.

• 16:20 -- Self-help
• 16:45 -- Reproduction
• 18:45 -- Sounds to me like your civilization sucked.
• 20:45 -- The floor has some blood, and money, and bloody money.
• 26:20 -- Wasn't the dude seen walking into that room. Wouldn't he be able to hear them talking, if not hear the door open and close?
• 27:30 -- Rendering (animal products), Candle
• 28:00 -- "Renaissance man" = Polymath
• 29:00 -- "That's the thing about guessing, 90% of the time it's 50/50"
• She doesn't look like she drank any of that.
• Nor he.
• 30:45 -- So.. that room they went in, where they saw the clones, had an exit that the dude and they both passed through?
• 31:50 -- I guess they didn't have stun blasters back then.
• 34:15 -- Vanishing point
• 37:40 -- How did he know Rade's name?
• 40:45 -- "Manual stimulation" is a reference to masturbation.
• 41:15 -- I guess it took a very long time for the Maru to get to Andromeda, because every other ship can be detected from quite far away.
• 41:20 -- She is so hot.
• 42:00 -- Harper sure went quick on that installation. Also, he wasn't seen or heard from at all in this episode. I guess the budget went toward the flashbacks.
• 42:00 -- "All ahead full" doesn't mean anything. Pick a damned destination. Slipstream and all that.

"Between birth and death lies desire,
Desire for life, for love,
for everything good.

And this is the source
of all suffering."

Outcast Consensus 17,
C.Y. 10942

• 0:20 -- Yum.
• 0:30 -- Female uniforms? Sexism. Although breasts, so sometimes not so much.

• 0:40 -- Well, sortof.

  In the olden days, women were bad luck.. because women were bad luck. Partly because of the rarity of competence on men-things, but partly because men have reduced cognitive capacity around women. Yes, men are dumb around women, doing things like preferring them. Because patriarchy.

  Ships were considered female, and a female name wasn't surprising. With that in mind, a female AI wouldn't be surprising either.

  I suppose the crazy would say it's because of a dominance-subservience patriarchy misogynistic identifying as alpha problematic problemic-problemy-problem. But there's this thing about men wanting to feel safe when doing something dangerous, like being on a boat. Which, by the way, is dangerous. It's about having a protective mother.

• 1:15 -- Becca is jealous. Because Becca is ugly.

• 1:30 -- Andromeda (mythology), Phoenice (Roman province)

  • There's no way in hell an AI would be allowed to extrapolate their own appearance.
• 2:50 -- It's the Borg.
• 3:00 -- Why wouldn't the internal security already be prepared?
• 6:50 -- These machines are not a "someone".
• 7:40 -- Yep, Trance likes it.
• 8:40 -- Why wouldn't they assume the thing could hear them?
• 8:50 -- .. firewall. Sigh. Perhaps try an Air gap (networking). Why would she be "reasonably certain she can handle it.", if this is a superior intelligence and she's been poked around in by amateurs?
• 9:10 -- I wonder if "HG" is a reference to H. G. Wells.

• 9:50 -- Directions and codes won't take time. What's being transferred? An entire AI?

  • Oh, I bet an uncharted slipstream route to the middle of nowhere is being transferred, which would be quite complex and therefore large and therefore would take time.

• 11:40 -- Confined to command? Seriously?

  • Where is everyone else, that Becca is alone with it?
• 14:50 -- I know that actor.
• 15:55 -- Why would it be programmed to think like this? I'm confused. Did this epiphany happen because of the consensus' complete lack of understanding sentience?
• 20:00 -- Sex-- oh, a Wake (ceremony). That's not .. that.
• 21:40 -- Wouldn't all those gift-parts represent pieces which aren't being returned to the consensus?
• 28:20 -- How long have they been in this firefight for Dillan to carry Romi over, and patiently have her worked on?
• 31:00 -- Oh, they've been running all this time, just not in slipstream. So it's extended their battering.
• 31:50 -- "Investing in Loss"
• 32:30 -- So here's the thing. If AIs can't navigate slipstream, then how in the fuck did those contact units get sent? Do they have some sort of superior communications technology such that parts which were already there would consensus into contact units?
• 33:45 -- Ms. Pac-Man, White blood cell
• 34:50 -- Trance claims to admit that she can see flashes but can't control it.
• 35:40 -- So I think I was right. That debris field must be one of many floating in deep space.
• 38:30 -- Would the debris-consensus have missiles around?
• Consensus enters civil war.
• 41:00 -- Did he at least repair Andromeda?

• 41:40 -- So.. his parts are still hanging around waiting to re-sabotage?

The quote from the beginning, by "Outcast Consensus 17", means there were more.

Will the show ever hear from the Consensus or Outcast Consensus again? If not, aside from the little scene with Trance, this is largely a throwaway episode.

(see Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), by Hunter S. Thompson)

WARNING: Do Not Operating Heavy
Machinery of Navigate The Slipstream
While Under the Influence
Of This Beverage.

Sparky - Cola (Label),
291 AFC

(AFC probably means after Commonwealth)

• 2:30 -- Very nice that he'd remember he killed Trance.
• 8:45 -- Hot. Inappropriately hot, but still hot. I'm a bad person.
• 10:10 -- What the hell could be better than the Andromeda?
• 15:30 -- The way back to Tarn Vedra, which was closed off from the slipstream. Well wow, that would be better than the Andromeda. Except it would be populated.
• 18:40 -- Chicken (game)
• 19:00 -- So couldn't the dude follow them? Again?
• 23:00 -- So she can see the chips, but they aren't confirming that's the data.
• 23:30 -- Why would they be allowed to bring guns in?

• 25:30 -- Yes, a person coming from a different culture with different drives and values CAN BE A BAD PERSON.

  • Ohai, other desert death cult. How go the rape gangs, child slavery, misogynism, genocide, etc etc etc? Working up to that two thousand year mark still?
• 26:10 -- Et tu, Brute?
• 26:40 -- And he shoots her again. Roll credits.
• 26:50 -- Hurtful stereotypes? But he's done.. bad things.
• 29:30 -- If they're just out of range, how would they have time to land and do anything?
• 29:30 -- Biggest ball of twine
• 29:40 -- Left the power on? For automated defenses?
• 31:00 -- Called it.
• 33:20 -- Introduction to the ECM generator bullet-avoidance thingy. Which apparently.. is some of the lost tech only available on the Andromeda, or some such. I guess nobody uses real bullets, they're all smart bullets which are vulnerable to this stuff.
• 39:00 -- And they took everything else too. Right? Right.
• 39:20 -- Why wouldn't they give him everything else? Except he'd be stranded. But if the others are dead they have two ships to spare.
• 40:30 -- I hope nobody sees him getting off the ship. Since he has to get to his own. Where did he leave his?
• 42:10 -- Terrible lighting. I guess it's unavoidable for it to be realistic here. The sun would be lighting them but they needed to be lit from the front or they'd be black blobs. They should have been put in a little cafe or something, so that front-lighting wouldn't be surprising.

"Only those born guilty Recognize
Innocence for what it Is:

The rarest thing in the Universe,

And the most Precious."

The Anointed, The Finder of The Way
C.Y. 9799

• 0:20 -- Why aren't they immediately talking about the map to Tarn Vedra?
• 0:40 -- The statues are from Buddhism. See Gautama Buddha.
• 11:50 -- Oh fuck off. The power of faith. Again, he doesn't believe in faith, and doesn't believe prayer will actually work. Fucking hypocrite called for help but is now having doubts when he realizes what that "help" actually means.
• 12:15 -- No, rev, faith is not doing any of those things. You are. Also, no you couldn't take over the place. There is at least one able-bodied person who you'd have to ambush and take out. Dillan.
• 13:30 -- This episode has become overbearing. Just get to the "religion and faith and blah blah don't mean anything in the real world" point.
• 13:40 -- His children? Fucking religion. Also, violence. Like the violence of blowing up their weapons cache? He's worried about their innocence, but is demonstrating his own domineering attitude?
• 13:45 -- .. called it.
• 14:45 -- "But it's possible".. no, it's inevitable.
• 15:00 -- No, he can't have children with genetic memories. His genetics can't do that. So the genetics he donates in becoming a father can't have genetic memory. They themselves would presumably begin the cycle, but at no point could Dillan's memories live on in any form other than the traditional way of being remembered by others.
• 15:45 -- Oh come on, I could have forgiven that footage being used twice in the one episode, but now? No. Just don't do that, people.
• 15:55 -- Spears versus guns. Spears versus a ship.
• Oh, and I recognize that actor.

• 16:10 -- Tripwire, Punji sticks, Land mines

  • Okay, those will help against personnel.
  • They could just go somewhere that isn't defended, and come back with a proper force. It's a big world.
• 16:50 -- Archery? It's difficult to make a bow. It's difficult to use a bow. But she was established as a hunter, so I guess she has those stuff.
• 17:45 -- Their hold is pretty full. So they have other slaves. Slaves that I hope will be rescued.
• 20:00 -- Rev could have brought the Maru and Dillan could have come on a slip fighter. Are those capable of atmospheric fighting?
• 22:20 -- How did they know his name?
• 25:55 -- Wait a second. Where's the red-robed corpse?
• 29:40 -- If only there were some way to get more arms. Like from some sort of starship. They only have to hold them off for a while, and that seems to have already been accomplished.
• 28:40 -- Couldn't some of the orbital be patched up and used as a temporary life pod, or is it really that bad off?
• 29:30 -- Baby-crazy.
• 31:10 -- I'm pretty sure something tiny like that won't be a huge threat to people with boots. How do their young work, anyways?
• 31:30 -- Wait, to die? No, he didn't come to die.
• 32:10 -- Yes she's a monster. She kidnapped and raped someone. Wait, male. Can't be rape.
• 33:00 -- It would be a bunch of baby-crazy Magog. So.. not so good.
• 33:30 -- Will her progeny remember all the pain and regret from her death?
• 35:00 -- Well I guess they're covering what they're like, their growth and such.
• 35:15 -- Four weeks.
• 37:00 -- So while they were hoping that genetic memories would help out, they're essentially using the murderous natures of these Magog. So. Aren't they undermining what they hoped for? Are they actually using them as weapons?
• 39:40 -- I'd say that the Magog have no way off the planet so it's not too terrible, but others on the planet may have technology, and visitors would have a problem.

"The enemy of my enemy
is still my enemy."

Drago Museveni
C.Y. 8427

• 0:20 -- Preparation porn.
• 2:30 -- Only millions? Not billions?
• 6:30 -- Robot fat shaming.
• 7:20 -- She's also been a princess probably all her life.
• 10:20 -- Reduced cognitive capacity.
• 12:50 -- Wouldn't everyone know of Tyr's presence on the Andromeda? It hasn't been a secret at all..
• 13:50 -- Were they transporting her in normal space?
• 15:20 -- Seat belt
• 15:45 -- Becca kisses Dilan.
• 17:45 -- Nuclear weapon, Suitcase nuclear device, Neutron bomb
• 18:00 -- Why wouldn't they go through the faux-princess' bags? At least a scanner.
• 18:40 -- Ruse.
• 19:00 -- There's no fight to be had here. She's been training since she was three.
• 19:30 -- "Have you seen my force lance?"
• 20:20 -- Dillan's mother was a heavy gravity worlder, genetically engineered, presumably like the water-breathers.
• 21:00 -- Mono-molecular lash. See also Johnny Mnemonic's "mono whip".
• 21:20 -- No it won't cut a hole through the ship. It retracts automatically and the few-molecules hole its retracted tip would pierce might vaporize some material but the rest of it would not. It wouldn't even punch a hole through the hull, which is presumably fairly thick.
• 21:30 -- Or not.

• 21:45 -- Wait a second, isn't faux-princess being suicidal? Maybe she's engineered to be sterile.

If this which he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.

-- Macbeth (before 1611), Act 5, Scene 5, by William Shakespeare

• 28:25 -- Some cultures are better than others.
• Had her ova removed. Sortof called it.
• 32:00 -- You know. It's a good tactic to consider, to get her off so hard that she wants more and can't go through with her suicide mission. Peace and love (making).
• 33:00 -- Those are damned fast drones. I wonder if they could be captured, those footprint magnification systems must be valuable, although Harper did jury rig one pretty easily. Though perhaps Andromeda has high-end parts laying about. Though perhaps such parts are damned rare out there.
• 33:40 -- If the drones were programmed to follow them, then wouldn't they still be following them? Wouldn't, also, they be able to communicate the position of the Andromeda if it saw through the ruse, therefore giving ample time for the bad guy to respond?

• 36:10 -- If only there were some sort of faster than light-travel they could use to get away. To "slip" away.

"God is dead" -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"You ask why we give our Ships'
Computers normal Emotions?

Do you really want a Warship
Incapable of Loyalty?

Or of Love?"

The Unshattered Allegiance
High Guard Frigate
Artificial Intelligence Rights Activist,
C.Y. 7309

• 0:50 -- Belly dance, Sign language

• 1:40 -- Maybe the restors are luring them?

  • Target their weapons?
  • Oh.
• 4:00 -- But whose escape pod?
• 4:20 -- That's the dude who, as of this show, was still acting in Stargate SG-1 - (1997-2007 show), who also, the jealous bastard, ended up dating and marrying Lexa Doig (Andromeda). She was pregnant for a part of this series, hence the closeups and her absence.
• 5:15 -- Exactly my response to her.
• 5:45 -- More like "de-brief" amirite?
• 6:00 -- Hebrew language, Middle English, Persh(?)

• 6:40 -- All Dogs Go to Heaven

  • The whole sentence feels like it's a reference to something else, though.
• 6:50 -- Andromeda's head is worth 1,000 thrones on Bathsheba.
• 8:30 -- "Great hair, 'Friedrich'".
• 11:45 -- Sun Tzu
• 13:00 -- So basically she's a 12 year old girl.
• 13:30 -- Thank you.

• 14:10 -- Pygmalion (mythology)

  • A sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory, fell in love with it, then was granted a wish that turned it flesh.
• 15:00 -- I don't know how many times I'd fuck up this scene to kiss her again and again.
• 15:40 -- That smile. (image below)
• 16:00 -- So after coming on board and being checked out by a mechanic, he .. had that hidden somewhere?

• 17:15 -- Pronoun troubles.

  • This was probably made most famous by an episode of Looney Tunes - https://youtu.be/6e1hZGDaqIw
• 18:00 -- Sex doll
• 18:40 -- [ 1 ]
• 20:20 -- Reuse of footage.
• 21:00 -- "Restor in pieces" is a play on "rest in pieces", a reference to death. I did not look up that reference. Maybe it's related to a corpse being cut up and fed to the birds or something.
• 21:40 -- A "beam rider" is apparently some sort of stealth missile which can remotely target when far outside of sensor range. Somehow.
• 22:45 -- Mata Hari
• 24:20 -- See the thing is that the Balance of Judgement is a highguard warship. A warship. A war ship. A ship of war. One which knows about the FMS and such tactics. One which also knows about other highguard ships. It's not like other Andromeda-quality ships are anywhere to be found. With the firepower of the Balance, it could engage all "three" ships.
• 26:30 -- Were they really trying to dodge those missiles?
• 27:30 -- "We have met the enemy and they are ours", a quote from Oliver Hazard Perry in 1813, after the Battle of Lake Erie.
• 27:40 -- See the thing about space is that it has three dimensions. Releasing an arc of mines isn't really that meaningful. Maybe they should have been shown as also spreading out on the z-access.
• 30:00 -- Weren't they in a firefight just then? Didn't the Balance "blow through their mine field"? Don't they need the AI to pilot the ship?

• 32:00 -- Why would the Balance be shooting when perhaps it should be trying to capture such a valuable asset?

  • .. and its avatar, though that could be re-created.

• 39:30 -- He had free will though, they could have had him in a cell for as long as he would have.

"Come bitter Rain,
And wash from my Heart
That saddest of all Words:

Home"

Ulatempa Poetess, "Song of My Exile"
C.Y. 9825

• 0:15 -- The AP valve, again.
• 1:30 -- Way to make him feel old.

• 2:00 -- Dillan's mother was a High-G shuttle pilot, and his father worked at the Imperial Gardens.

  • He grew up in the human quarter of Bishana Tarn.
• 06:10 -- The pipework includes "Made in USA".
• 10:10 -- While cute, that scene would have worked better with a good looking actor.
• 10:35 -- Andromeda Galaxy
• 11:00 -- So what's the problem with the travel time? They have multiple people who are capable of flying. There are also plenty of opportunities to rest.
• Capella, Delta Corvi (Algorab),
• 12:45 -- Segana(?) star system
• 12:50 -- I assume this means that every step of the way is cut off.
• 14:00 -- Epsilon Bell pulsar, named after Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
• Cyclops, Odyssey, Centaur,

• 14:15 -- Enstra(?) Bexna(?) Bernar(?), The Hawks of Skaroth(?)

  • Oh hell, speak clearly. This is presumably something in the Andromeda universe.
• 14:40 -- Wise guy.
• Cilla(?) and Korindus(?), binary black hole

Andromeda galaxy's twin cores.

** This appears to be fictional.

• 16:20 -- "Between a rock and a hard place", Dilemma
• 17:15 -- Sending the Maru via remote control would be a good way to feel around for that sweet spot without risking the entire ship. Sort of like a cane used by the blind.
• 25:30 -- Orion's Belt, Milky Way
• 26:30 -- Risk–return spectrum
• 26:45 -- O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman
• 29:45 -- Addiction, Anabolic steroid, Straight edge
• 30:30 -- Presumably they're returning the way they came. Which is odd.
• 32:00 -- Drug withdrawal, was she megadosing or something?
• 38:30 -- Didn't radiation exceed safety levels? So they are unsafe.
• 40:05 -- I'm confused. That was one jump from what, maybe a quarter of the way in? Does this mean they found a later entry-point if they wanted to continue the journey?

"Screams of a billion murdered Stars
Give lie to the night's Peace,

While we cling in desperation to the Few
Fragile spinning stones we call Worlds"

Wayfinder First Order Hasturi
aka "The Mad Perseid"
217 AFC

• 6/50 worlds signed the Commonwealth charter.
• Conservation of energy, Is the glass half empty or half full?
• 1:00 -- What the hell is he doing? It looks like he's dragging a welding torch across circuitry.
• 4:45 -- How is she running around, when there are automated defense systems?
• 10:45 -- If she can't analyze the star patterns because she's too far away, then where could the destination be? It would have to be outside of properly-charter space.
• 15:30 -- I never understood why semi-animal humanoids like that could build and maintain ships of war.
• 17:15 -- Shouldn't they have full suits on, including the helmets to avoid being sprayed with paralytic poison?
• 18:20 -- Why have the staff extended. Are they expecting to use that thing in melee combat?
• 20:45 -- Called the super strength in a previous episode. Too bad it was missing until now.
• 24:00 -- That's remarkably ineffectual armour.
• 25:50 -- That talking-one is obviously dangerous, and especially since he's armed. Why not take him out right now while there was the opportunity?

• 26:40 -- "Why did it have to be Macgog, I hate Macgog" is an homage to one of the Indiana Jones movies and "Why did it have to be snakes, I hate snakes."

  • See Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - (1984 movie) and /tag/indiana-jones-series.
• Dillan's black ops past, rank and password are revealed.
• 31:50 -- Brother Bohemia Fartraveller. Red Plague.
• 33:20 -- Why not take an extra moment to shoot the robot?
• 35:15 -- How would they have the faintest chance in hand-to-hand combat?
• 36:00 -- Why would Trance continue? There are no robots there to threaten her.

• 41:40 -- Episode down. Code red. Code red.

TO BE CONTINUED